US bioethics panel poised to judge local review boards

摘要

Washington. Tighter supervision of the loeal ethics boards that themselves supervise research protocols is likely to be among the first topics considered by the new National Bioethics Advisory Commission, which is to report within a year on steps needed to protect human research subjects in the United States. The first task of the 17-member commission, which was appointed in the summer by President Bill Clinton and is chaired by Harold Shapiro, the president of Princeton University, New Jersey, willbe to assess the protection of research subjects.