January 28, 2000
U.S. Suspends Human-Subject Research at Virginia Commonwealth U.
Federal regulators have ordered Virginia Commonwealth University to halt about 1,000 research trials involving human subjects, saying that the university had provided insufficient oversight to ensure participants' safety and informed consent.
The government said it had acted in part because a university scientist inappropriately mailed a college student a survey asking her sensitive questions about the psychological and medical histories of her parents and twin brother, including
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