April 21, 2000

NIH, FDA Should Do More to Protect Human Subjects in Research, Report Says

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

Federal agencies have made "minimal progress" in carrying out recommendations for improving university reviews of research involving human subjects, said a government report released last week.

In a follow-up to a 1998 report, the inspector general's office of the Department of Health and Human Services called for "a greater sense of urgency" to protect research volunteers.

The new report, by Inspector General June Gibbs Brown, said both the National Institutes of Health and the

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