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The UCSD Human Research Protections Program provides brief summaries on topics of special interest.  These documents are in Adobe Acrobat 5.0 format.  If you do not have the Acrobat reader, you can get it here. Advertising Guidelines Amendments: Making Changes to an existing, approved Protocol (updated 1/23/09) Child Assent Children as Research Subjects Closure/Withdrawal of Study (updated 3/27/12) Death Records use in Research DNA and Informed Consent Issues DoD/DON-funded Research (released 11/12/10) Duration of IRB Approval Exempt from IRB Review (updated 8/2/11) FWA statement letter Guide for Providing Investigator Comments on Sponsor-Supplied Adverse Event Reports HIPAA Privacy Rule Information HIV Reporting and Research (a letter from the California Dept. of Health Services, Office of AIDS, November 2003) Human Embryonic Stem Cell Study Information HRPP Human Subjects Training Requirement (released 7/17/09) IRB recommendations on treatment of Postdural Puncture Headaches IRB review fees for commercially sponsored projects (updated 11/28/11) Medical Devices (released 3/5/09; updated 4/2/09) Placebo-controlled Studies in High Risk Psychiatric Populations Registration of Clinical Trials in a Public Registry for Publication Reporting Unanticipated Problems Involving Risk to Participants or Others (UPRs) to the IRB Research Involving the Use of Existing Data Screening Tests Prior to Study Enrollment SDSU/UCSD Agreement for Joint Review of Faculty Protocols SDSU/UCSD Agreement for JDP/Master's Degree-IRB Review (updated 8/16/10) UCSD Human Subjects Literature Monitoring Use of Chemicals and other substances that are not regulated by the FDA