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...TARGET Philippe Starck, who has been on a crusade to keep design cheap, created several baby items for Target that will hit the store in late May. The toilet trainer-potty step stool is $17 and the toy car is $30. Also available: a wearable baby monitor for moms and a sippy cup that looks like a wine goblet...
...York, were deliberately infected with hepatitis so that scientists could work on an experimental vaccine. And in perhaps the most infamous case on record, doctors at Georgia's Tuskegee Institute, starting in the 1930s, deliberately withheld treatment from syphilis-infected African-American men for 40 years to monitor the course of the disease...
...revelation of these and other scandals led to the National Research Act of 1974, which required institutional review boards to approve and monitor all federally funded research. The Department of Health and Human Services followed up by creating what is now called the Office for Human Research Protection, whose job was supposed to be to oversee the IRBs. But the nature of medical research has changed dramatically in the past few decades. "Back then, research tended to be a single investigator working at an academic institution conducting a small-scale clinical trial," says Dr. Jeremy Sugarman, director of the Center...
Until last year, in fact, when the agency's budget tripled, OHRP had just two full-time investigators to monitor more than 4,000 federally funded research institutions. Since 1980, the agency has audited, on average, just four sites a year. The FDA is somewhat more vigilant, making site visits to about 200 of the approximately 1,900 IRBs that oversee research on FDA-regulated products...
When Pat Metheny took the stage at the Orpheum Theatre on April 14, he set the stage for an evening of unadorned music. Unassumingly dressed under a tangled mat of hair, Metheny sat on a monitor speaker, hunched over his guitar and eased into a straightforward, honest folk ballad...