nih

As a result of its investigation, the NIH said that to qualify for funding, all proposals for research on human subjects had to be approved by review boards__ndependent bodies made up of professionals and laypeople of diverse races, classes, and backgrounds__o ensure that they met the NIH__ ethics requirements, including detailed informed consent. Scientists said medical research was doomed. In a letter to the editor of Science, one of them warned, __hen we are prevented from attempting seemingly innocuous studies of cancer behavior in humans _ we may mark 1966 as the year in which all medical progress ceased.