American medical studies are supposed to be reviewed by the Institutional Review Board of a hospital or university, and today most countries have ethics committees that serve a prospective function, says Joseph Ali, Research Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and Associate Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Source: Bioethics Bulletin by the Berman Institute of Bioethics.
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