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Only “minimal” progress has been made towards reforming the overburdened
system in the US for protecting people who are the subjects of research, says a
government report released last week. American studies are vetted by local
review boards. But two years ago, a high-profile review concluded that these
panels of volunteers weren’t up to the job
(New Scientist, 20 June 1998, p 3).
Officials at the Food and Drug Administration and the National
Institutes of 91ɫ��Ƭ say that they have been working to solve the problems, but
the new report suggests that Congress may have to intervene.