Several items in this issue of the Hastings Center Report try to fill gaps or resolve uncertainties in the regulatory systems that govern research on human subjects. The biggest of these items is a special report, published as a supplement to the issue, that considers a long-running and vexing regulatory problem: the uncertain relationship between the two sets of federal regulations for research. The one most familiar to readers of the Report is the body of rules often called the "Common Rule," which guide the treatment of human subjects.
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