Research Subject Advocate - Useful Links
- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA): The FDA is responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. The FDA is also responsible for advancing the public health by helping to speed innovations that make medicines and foods more effective, safer, and more affordable; and helping the public get the accurate, science-based information they need to use medicines and foods to improve their health.
- FDA Operations FDA inspections of institutional review boards, clinical investigators, and clinical investigator regulatory sanctions. This site also includes information on audits/inspections.
- National Institutes of Health: Health information (resources, clinical trials, drug information); grant and funding opportunities; scientific resources; and NIH institutions, centers and offices.
- NIH Guidance on Adverse Events Reporting NIH guidance on reporting adverse events to institutional review boards for NIH-supported multicenter clinical trials. Release date: June 11, 1999
- Original NIH guidelines on inclusion of women and minorities as subjects in clinical research (Notice: OD-00-048, August 2, 2000):
- National Library of Medicine. The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences. The collections stand at more than 7 million items--books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs and images.
Other sites listed in the Internal/External Links’ page.
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