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Patient Rights
Learn more of what the government and researchers do to protect participants today
- Click to hear more about patient safety
- Belmont Report on Research Ethics
- Office for Human Research Protections
Gain understanding into research mistakes of our past
- Tuskegee Study (1932-1972) researchers did not tell participants all the study information. By today’s standards, participants could not join a study without all the information. The Tuskegee Study also withheld medical treatment from participants. Today, research studies can’t prevent high quality medical care.
- Henrietta Lacks received a medical procedure in 1951. Medical research staff did not inform her about using a sample of cells from the procedure. Today, a study cannot use someone’s cells unless they consent to the research plan.
Lessons learned from past research mistakes
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Trust and clinical trials research
Click on a link below to see what recent research says about trust in clinical trials
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- Visit the Find a Clinical Trial page to search for clinical trials.