Blockchains and smart contracts are gaining momentum as enabling technologies for a wide
set of applications where data distribution and sharing among decentralized infrastructures …

Refugees and asylum seekers may experience challenges related to pre-arrival
experiences, structural disadvantage after migration and during resettlement requiring the …

Imagine that you volunteer for the clinical trial of an experimental drug. The only direct
benefit of participating is that you will receive up to $5,175. You must spend twenty nights …

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 …

Background Increasing the diversity of research participants is an important focus of clinical
trials. However, little is known regarding who enrolls as healthy volunteers in Phase I clinical …

Abstract Human Infection Studies (HIS) have emerged as an important research approach
with the potential to fast track the global development of vaccines and treatments for …

Background Human infection studies (HIS) that involve deliberately infecting healthy
volunteers with a pathogen raise important ethical issues, including the need to ensure that …

Purpose Clinical research relies on data from patients and volunteers, yet the target sample
size is often not achieved. Here, we assessed the perception of clinical research among …

Phase I healthy volunteer trials test the safety and tolerability of investigational
pharmaceuticals. In them, participants are exposed to study‐drug risks without the possibility …

In the US, research payments are technically taxable income. This article argues that tax
liability is a form of possible economic and legal risk of paid research participation. Findings …