The United States has long made substantial investments in clinical research with the goal
of improving the health and well-being of our nation. There is no doubt that these …

Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatous inflammatory disease of unknown etiology. It
affects the lungs in over 90% of patients yet extra-pulmonary and multi-organ involvement is …

Ethical Payment to Research Participants The authors propose a framework for evaluating
the appropriateness of payments to research participants. They distinguish three acceptable …

The practice of offering payment to individuals in exchange for their participation in clinical
research is widespread and longstanding. Nevertheless, such payment remains the source …

Questions of paying research participants have taken on a new urgency as contemporary
geographies of precarity, inequality and austerity affect both potential participants and, to …

Background: Research participant engagement, which we define as recruitment and
retention in clinical trials, is a costly and challenging issue in clinical research. Research …

In contrast to most publications on the ethics of paying research subjects, which start by
identifying and analyzing major ethical concerns raised by the practice (in particular, risks of …

Classic statements of research ethics advise against permitting physician-investigators to
obtain consent for research participation from patients with whom they have preexisting …

Interviews with policy and political officials are central in social science research. While
these actors are traditionally conceived as elites, holding similar or more power and …

Controlled Human Infection Model (CHIM) research involves the infection of otherwise
healthy participants with disease often for the sake of vaccine development. The COVID-19 …