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human subject

An individual who participtes in research, either as a recipient of the test article or as a control, and is either a healthy human or a patient.
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human subject

Participant Drug approval A person who partipicates in a clinical trial of a new drug
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When it was time for Rabbi Hannannel Ross, 29, to select a research subject for his master's in psychology at the Hebrew University, he didn't have to look too far for inspiration.
Like its project on road traffic injuries IMC had viewed traffic congestion project too as a research subject said the press release.
In specific research subject areas, Aston University's Area Studies is rated 3rd in the UK, Allied Health Professions 5th in the UK and Business Studies 17th nationwide for research classed as worldleading or internationallyexcellent.
Furthermore, there exists a danger that researchers might be under the impression that the fact that a research subject has provided informed consent exempts the researchers from any further moral responsibility towards the subject in the course of the research process.
* The term "dispense" means to deliver a controlled substance to an ultimate user or research subject by, or pursuant to the lawful order of, a practitioner, including the prescribing and administering of a controlled substance and the packaging, labeling or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for such delivery.
Realising there was something unique about his physiology, Crohn volunteered himself as a research subject.
In the Sacramento case, two neurosurgeons resigned from the University of California, Davis, after a controversy over the inadequacy of research subject protections in their trial of a novel approach for treating a highly mahgnant brain cancer with "probiotic intracranial therapy," or the introduction of live bowel bacteria, Enterobacter aerogenes, directly into their patients' brains or bone flaps.
In the study, stem cells are harvested from a subject's own bone marrow in the operating room while the research subject is under anesthesia.
University of Michigan health researchers say that a nationally representative survey of older adults shows that most believe it's okay for a family surrogate to give consent for a cognitively impaired person to be a research subject. The surveyors queried 1,515 people aged 51 years and older who were randomly selected from the government-funded National Health and Retirement Survey.
Half of those questioned were prepared to sell belongings on eBay to raise extra cash and five per cent were considering volunteering as a medical research subject.
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