Recent News
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Amid Budget Process, US House Underlines Value of Behavioral Science
As the US Congress develops the country’s budget for the upcoming year, behavioral science has landed a critical mention among the lawmaking body’s many priorities.
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US Congress Cautions NIH on Clinical Trials Policies
The US Senate has instructed the National Institutes of Health to acknowledge the behavioral science community’s opposition to classifying basic research with humans as clinical trials.
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NIH Delays Some Clinical Trials Requirements Imposed Earlier on Basic Behavioral Research
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is delaying for 2 years some of the clinical-trials requirements it earlier attempted to impose on basic research.
Past Reading
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Make Your Voice Heard: Tell NIH You Oppose the Classification of Basic Human Subjects Research as Clinical Trials
NIH has issued a Request for Information asking the community to weigh in on a number of questions related to basic behavioral science.
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NIH Delays Clinical Trials Policy Enforcement. Now What?
NIH has released a new notice announcing that it is delaying enforcement of clinical trials policies for basic behavioral research, but reviews say that this notice…
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Congress Stops NIH From Implementing New Clinical Trials Policy
Responding to objections from APS and other stakeholders, US lawmakers have directed the National Institutes of Health to delay a new policy that would reclassify basic…
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Major Changes Ahead for Funding of Human Subjects Research at NIH
NIH has announced several policy changes related to NIH-funded research involving human subjects.
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The Basic Research Blues
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Major Change in NIH Policy for Clinical Trials Applications
In a significant departure from current practices, NIH has issued new policies relating to grant applications involving clinical trials, including one mandating that all applications involving…
In the News
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Scientists doing basic studies of human brain win longer reprieve from clinical trials reporting rule
U.S. scientists who challenged a new rule that would require them to register their basic studies of the human brain and behavior in a federal database…
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NIH delays controversial clinical trials policy for some studies
Basic brain and behavioral researchers will get more than a year to comply with a new U.S. policy that will treat many of their studies as…
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Basic scientists still feel pinch of new NIH clinical trial policy
Basic researchers who study the brain and human behavior thought lawmakers had come to their rescue in March by blocking the NIH from redefining their studies…
