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The Role of IRBs in U.S. HIV Clinical Trials
HIV clinical trials, like other studies that test medical hypotheses in humans, embody a fundamental ethical tension. The immediate well-being of clinical trial participants, even those who might benefit greatly from certain experimental regimens, is implicitly being weighed against the future well-being of other unknown people.
Who decides whether the risks to clinical trial participants are justified by the possible health benefits that they and other people might experience? According to modern ethical and legal norms, it is essential for each individual to make his or her own decisions after receiving accurate information about the study in question. "Informed consent" refers to the process through which investigators educate potential participants about a trial's risks, benefits and objectives. By formally providing informed consent, people attest to their understanding and acceptance of what they will be asked to do in the course of the trial.
Experience has suggested that informed consent by itself is not enough. Unless he or she happens to possess the relevant professional background, a person considering a clinical trial might find it challenging to rigorously evaluate the scientific underpinnings of the study protocol. And even someone with a sophisticated understanding of the protocol is still dependent on the study team to conduct itself with integrity. A study team that lacks the judgment or knowledge to work in an ethically sound manner can inflict physical or psychological harm on even the most educated study participant.
The Emergence of the IRB System
Institutional review boards, commonly known as IRBs, bring an important form of oversight to the decision-making processes behind US clinical trials. An IRB is a committee of people who draw on their various areas of expertise to evaluate study protocols. According to federal regulations, a clinical trial cannot be undertaken without IRB approval.
IRBs are created and managed by organizations that are themselves involved in research, with board members drawn primarily from within those bodies. Since community input is recognized as a component of the ethical review of research protocols, an IRB is required to include at least one member who is not affiliated with the institution. (This policy is also intended to serve as a check on the potential conflict of interest that is created by essentially asking institutions to monitor themselves in regard to research ethics.)
Formal systems for protecting research participants are relatively new in the history of medicine. The first widely recognized ethical document relating specifically to studies involving humans was a response to the atrocities committed by Germany's Nazi regime. Horrifying evidence of Nazi doctors' widespread experimentation on concentration camp prisoners gave rise to the 1947 Nuremberg Code. An American-led military tribunal formulated the Nuremberg Code in the course of issuing verdicts against 23 Germans implicated in the experiments.
The World Medical Association introduced a second influential ethical statement, the Declaration of Helsinki, in 1964. This document addresses important aspects of human subjects protections in more specific terms than the Nuremberg Code does.
The Nuremberg Code and the Declaration of Helsinki have done much to frame the discourse about how ethical principles should inform modern medical research. However, neither is actually a legally binding regulatory document. Medical researchers and research institutions in the United States and elsewhere were left to interpret and act upon the guidelines as they chose.
Research involving human subjects went on with minimal government oversight in the United States until the early 1970s, when news of the Tuskegee syphilis study marked a dramatic turning point. In 1972, a front-page New York Times article revealed that government researchers had intentionally withheld treatment from a large cohort of African-American men in a decades-long study of the effects of syphilis.
When the study began in Tuskegee, Alabama in the early 1930s, no treatment for this disease was known to be widely effective. In the years following World War II, penicillin became the standard treatment for syphilis. But the Tuskegee researchers, seeking to learn more about the natural progression of the disease, did not offer penicillin to study participants or inform them of its effectiveness.
Congressional hearings in the wake of this disclosure led to the passage of the 1974 National Research Act, which did much to define US regulatory structures and procedures. The legislation established the Office for Protection from Research Risks, as well as mandating IRB review of all research funded by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Federal Oversight and IRBs Today
More than three decades later, while the regulations brought into being by the National Research Act have undergone some revisions, the overall system remains in place. The Office for Protection from Research Risks was reorganized as the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) and given broader responsibilities in 2000. OHRP's authority extends over the research activities of public and private institutions receiving Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) support. (DHHS is descended from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.) Every institution under the jurisdiction of OHRP is required to either maintain its own IRB or be affiliated with an IRB. This IRB usually is charged with reviewing all of the institution's proposed studies involving human cohorts -- not just the studies supported by DHHS.
An IRB is legally authorized to operate when OHRP has granted it permission to do so by issuing a "federal-wide assurance" (FWA). The FWA imposes a set of regulations that specify in great detail how the institution should carry out research activities that involve humans. For example, researchers must obtain informed consent from all study participants and must be able to document this consent.
The FWA serves as the primary enforcement mechanism in OHRP's oversight system. OHRP has the power to revoke the FWA of an institution that is found to not be in compliance with research regulations. If an FWA is revoked, then the institution must halt its research. The day-to-day work of conducting studies is actually brought to a standstill. Also, there is a freeze on funding from the many federal agencies that have adopted OHRP's standards. (These include the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.)
While OHRP has never permanently revoked a major US research center's FWA, temporary revocations have compelled a number of institutions to overhaul their research procedures and practices. Johns Hopkins University, the University of California-Los Angeles, and Duke University Medical Center are among the institutions that have had their FWAs briefly suspended after OHRP identified major problems with how their IRBs were functioning.
IRBs have the enormous responsibility of considering proposed studies from an ethical standpoint, which means weighing potential benefits of new scientific knowledge against potential risks to subjects. There may be some clear benefits to subjects, e.g. medical care; financial compensation for their time; opportunities to try experimental regimens that possibly will be more efficacious than approved regimens. At the same time -- and also of concern to IRBs -- there is the potential for benefits such as those named to serve as undue inducements. That is, people might feel uneasy about a trial's drawbacks, but sign up anyway out of a sense of desperation.
As a check on the judgment of investigators, IRBs thus are at the nexus of the OHRP system. In the last several years, a number of widely publicized cases have shown that clinical trial participants' health -- and even their lives -- still can be put at risk, and that their rights still can be violated, in spite of IRB and OHRP oversight. These developments have raised questions about how strong the regulatory system is and whether individual IRBs are performing effectively.
One response to the latter issue has been the creation of new agencies to accredit IRB programs. The non-profit Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) has emerged as the central player in the accreditation movement. Following intensive reviews, AAHRPP has accredited 35 institutions to date, including Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University and other research powerhouses. AAHRPP reports that another 365 organizations have begun the demanding accreditation process.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversees research separately from OHRP. Any human study of an investigational new drug (IND) that might become a candidate for FDA approval should be implemented according to FDA regulations. Generally speaking, these regulations are similar to OHRP regulations (although from a legal perspective some of the differences might be considered significant). The FDA, like OHRP, calls for IRB oversight of all human research. (If a study of an IND takes place at an institution that has an FWA from OHRP, then the study falls under the jurisdiction of both OHRP and the FDA.)
In recent years, private independent IRBs have emerged as an alternative to IRBs convened by research institutions. A researcher affiliated with an OHRP-governed institution may have the option of hiring an independent IRB to review his or her protocol, providing that the IRB has an FWA from OHRP. Independent IRBs also review protocols for studies taking place in the private sector.
Some people have expressed skepticism about the adequacy of reviews by independent IRBs, which -- unlike university and hospital IRBs -- typically do not disclose the names of their board members. However, by and large, the most prominent independent IRBs seem to be winning the confidence of the biomedical and bioethical communities. At least two independent IRBs have been accredited by AAHRPP so far.
Throughout the 1980s and most of the 1990s, the workings of the IRB system elicited little public comment. Then in the late 1990s and early part of this decade, a series of episodes -- including the deaths of patients in three clinical trials -- called into question how well IRBs were meeting their responsibilities.
Medical journals and the mainstream media served as vehicles for calling attention to what a 2001 article in Annals of Internal Medicine called "a crisis in confidence" in the oversight system. OHRP underwent great scrutiny as it reviewed and restructured its role. In recent years, there have been fewer reports of ethical questions or lapses related to trials conducted in the United States. However, some highly important concerns remain to be addressed.
Shortcomings of the System: Implications for Researchers
From the standpoint of many clinical investigators, the ethical review process has changed greatly during the last several years. OHRP has investigated a relatively small number of institutions for alleged regulatory violations, but those cases have encouraged many other institutions to scrutinize and improve upon how their IRBs operate. This presumably has resulted in some advances in regard to the protection of research participants; at the same time it has added considerable administrative requirements for both IRBs and investigators.
One of the most common themes to emerge from investigators' criticism of IRBs relates to the length and complexity of the review process. As IRBs have become more attentive to the details of applications -- in many cases asking for more information than in the past -- investigators have found themselves in what may seem like a maze of paperwork. Requirements for reporting "adverse events" -- health issues that develop for trial participants, and that might be related to the experimental regimens they are following -- add further to the workload.
Questions have been raised about whether IRBs are overburdened and insufficiently funded -- logical questions, since it appears as if backlogs at some IRBs have delayed the review and therefore the implementation of protocols. The nature of clinical research itself has changed in ways that affect this already-complicated situation. Far more multi-site trials are being conducted now than in the 1970s, when the IRB system took form. Some trials might be staged at two dozen sites or more. If one IRB requires revisions in the trial protocol, then the amended protocol might need to be re-approved by all of the other IRBs.
(Originally, multi-site trials required the review and approval of IRBs at all trial sites. OHRP and other federal institutions have made some progress in developing more efficient ways for multi-site trials to be approved. The National Cancer Institute, for example, is piloting a central review system that is designed to supplement the work of local IRBs. However, many multi-site trials still undergo full review at each participating institution.)
Another layer of complexity is added when US investigators want to implement protocols at sites in other countries. (The investigators are bound by the regulations of both the US government and the host country or countries.) Following the appropriate procedures and documenting the process to the appropriate degree can be particularly challenging in resource-limited countries, where a significant number of HIV clinical trial sites are now found.
Various stakeholders in the clinical research realm, including research institutions, their IRBs, and the federal agencies that oversee them, are working to streamline the administrative processes for clinical investigators. But the question of how to do this under the federal regulations inherited from the 1970s, without compromising the quality of the ethical review process, is a formidable one. (Some analyses have concluded that a new regulatory system is in order, but there has not been widespread consensus-building of the nature that would be required for Congress to create the necessary legislation.)
Shortcomings of the System: Implications for Research Participants
While there are concerns about how the regulatory system affects the pace of research, it is essential to remember that protecting the well-being of research participants is the overarching goal. The risks of enrolling in some types of clinical trials may be quite small, but virtually no experimental intervention is risk-free. Investigators have the obligation to minimize the risks as much as possible, in keeping with the ethical principle that it is unacceptable to harm current research participants in the name of acquiring medical information that could benefit others in the future.
IRBs are charged with ensuring that both the ethical principles relating to research and the legal regulations intended to support those principles are honored. It could be argued that the US IRB system has stood the test of time in the sense that nothing on par with the Tuskegee scandal has been observed in the 30-plus years since then. However, there are various other ways in which IRBs might not be completely fulfilling their mandate.
The very nature of the IRB system, with internal ethical review of an organization's research protocols, creates the potential for conflicts of interest to undercut the protection of research participants. For example, an IRB member may feel reluctant to criticize a protocol from a colleague with whom he or she works closely.
Internal ethical review may also have the opposite effect. IRB members who are very concerned about protecting their institution's reputation may steer an overly cautious course and reject protocols that would impose an entirely reasonable level of risk on participants.
There is another type of conflict of interest that warrants scrutiny. In this era of major industry involvement in research, investigators may have strong financial incentives for enrolling people in clinical trials. In some cases, investigators may own stock in or be paid consultants to companies sponsoring research. In other cases, industry sponsors may offer payments to investigators who meet study enrollment goals. There may also be payments made to non-medical personnel to reward them for recruiting people for studies.
The presence of financial incentives is particularly troubling when the setting is the office of a physician whose patients expect him or her to use the best possible judgment in the course of providing medical care. Many people who are unaware of the existence of financial incentives will assume that their physicians and the physicians' staff are exclusively concerned with patient well-being. An invitation to join a clinical trial may erroneously be interpreted as a suggestion to pursue a better course of treatment than that which is currently available.
In clinical trials involving financial incentives, one can speculate that telling people about those financial incentives might affect their decisions about whether or not to enroll. Telling them might also affect their relationships with their physicians, raising questions in their minds about whether the physicians' clinical recommendations are colored by self-interest.
It is not known how effective IRBs are at mitigating the challenges that financial conflicts of interest may pose for clinical trial candidates. There is significant variation in the policies that individual IRBs have adopted in regard to whether or how investigators should acknowledge having financial stakes in trials.
Discrepant standards for the informed consent process constitute another major area of concern. There is relatively little empirical evidence to help investigators and IRBs identify best practices in regard to seeking informed consent from research participants. A three-page informed consent form describing a study's goals, risks and benefits might be considered too detailed by one IRB, but not detailed enough by another. The language in an informed consent form is supposed to be tailored to the literacy level of the intended audience, but deciding whether the form will succeed in conveying key information can be a subjective process.
From the research participant's standpoint, this means that enrolling in a study may involve receiving an informed consent form that is too complicated to understand. Alternately, the informed consent form may have been simplified to the point that it leaves out significant information. In either scenario, someone might be in danger of signing an informed consent form and undergoing an experimental treatment without fully understanding the risks.
In summation, there is more than one way to characterize the US regulatory system for protecting human subjects. Reasonable arguments could be made for the effectiveness of the system, especially as it compares to the regulation of clinical research in many other countries. On the other hand, the US regulatory system could also fairly be described as very much of a work-in-progress in some regards. There are shortcomings that urgently need to be addressed by both the biomedical field and those outside of the field who have taken on the charge of advocating for patients' interests.
It is important for the HIV/AIDS community to understand how IRBs are entrusted with safeguarding key components of the system, and to more broadly understand the roles of all major stakeholders in the ethical review process. Doing so will enable individuals to become more informed participants in HIV clinical trials. Just as importantly, it will ensure that the community as a whole has a voice in some of the most vital ethical issues of our era.
|What We Can Do: The Public's Role in Promoting Ethical HIV Clinical Trials
Clinical investigators, institutional review boards and federal overseers are not the only parties responsible for ensuring that research participants' right and interests are protected. It is vitally important to recognize that we -- people living with HIV and their allies and advocates -- should also take an active role in the ethical dimension of the clinical research enterprise.
Before enrolling in a clinical study that is affiliated with an academic research center, consider this advice:
Some industry-sponsored trials are not affiliated with academic research centers, in which case the IRBs approving the trials may be operating under less scrutiny. In those situations, you may want to take the these measures:
-- Kelly Safreed-Harmon


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- June 21, 2010 at 11:20 AM
- Courtney said...
Congrats on the interview, your artwork is fabulous! Thanks for the nice comment on my blog:)
- June 21, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- Food and Drugs said...
It takes a lot to find your personal style. Sometimes you wonder if in fact you'll have someday one of your own, recognisable by your fans at first sight.
I would say I could recognize your work even outside of its usual context.
- June 21, 2010 at 11:46 AM
- Abz said...
very awesome dude...congrats! I love it!
- June 21, 2010 at 12:09 PM
- theartofpuro said...
- June 21, 2010 at 12:13 PM
- Harto said...
Love the vectortuts stuff - good to see you on there. Congratulations! :)
- June 21, 2010 at 2:23 PM
- Bella Sinclair said...
Woooooohoooo! Love Chris's work, and love yours too! Congratulations. Okay, gonna pop on over there for a read....
- June 21, 2010 at 6:36 PM
- Caroline said...
Congrats on the interview Eric! I know a Barclay when I see one! Oh, and this particular illustration is fab and reminds me so much of my own two cats - black one had been on walkabout and arrived home in torrential rain - ginger one oblivious to the fact!!
- June 21, 2010 at 9:04 PM
- Vanessa Brantley Newton said...
Hey E, what a great interview. Congrats. Of course you know I enjoyed reading every line. This is wonderful! Oh you make me so proud!
- June 22, 2010 at 1:58 AM
- Jason James Curtis said...
I enjoyed the interview. It's always nice to get into the mind of an artist, especially one that produces work I admire as much as yours.
- June 22, 2010 at 7:54 AM
- Eric Barclay said...
Thanks so much for the kind words, everyone.
- June 22, 2010 at 9:24 AM
- Vanessa Brantley Newton said...
That's because you're crazy. If it's Barry White then what song is he singing cause I surely would like to know?
- June 22, 2010 at 5:30 PM
- nina seven said...
awesome interview, eric! i enjoyed getting to know a bit more about you. thanks so much for your comment on my ripple entry, it means a lot to me.
- June 22, 2010 at 6:34 PM
- Jmontiel said...
Congrats!. I love your style!
- June 24, 2010 at 4:14 AM
- Ces said...
Happy Birthday Eric!!! You rock!
- June 24, 2010 at 8:03 AM
- k.h.whitaker said...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! love the interview too, have a good one!
- June 24, 2010 at 8:31 AM
- Eve said...
Hiya, I saw you on Vanessa's blog and checked out the interview. Way cool!! Great blog too!
And happy birthday- Eve
- June 24, 2010 at 9:19 AM
- Jack Foster said...
Great interview Eric.... and.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
I've always been a great admirer of you minimalist style and lighthearted humor. You ROCK dude!!
- June 24, 2010 at 10:45 AM
- Eric Barclay said...
Thank you!
- June 24, 2010 at 12:45 PM
- Bella Sinclair said...
Heyyyyyyyyyy!!! Papa Bear! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you! May all your wishes come true. This is it, you know. Your year! It's all gonna happen, so get ready!
- June 24, 2010 at 3:12 PM
- michael robertson said...
congrats on the interview and happy birthday, eric. you're an amazing talent!
- June 24, 2010 at 3:18 PM
- bee said...
Great interview Eric, lovely to hear a little bit more about how you work :) Thanks SO MUCH for your lovely comment on my blog, appreciate it heaps! Your work is amazing, love love love it!!
- June 24, 2010 at 4:43 PM
- Francisco Martins said...
Hey Eric, double congratulations man! Congrats on your bday and on the magazine interview, it's so very well deserved! your work is really amazing man! :)
- June 24, 2010 at 5:27 PM
- Cheryl Lynn said...
Eric! Congratulations on the interview. It was wonderful. Your talent is phenomenal to say the least! You deserve the accolades.
Have a great evening, my friend.
- June 24, 2010 at 6:36 PM
- Cheryl Lynn said...
Oh yeah...Happy belated Birthday tooooo yoooooouuuuu! :)
- June 24, 2010 at 6:39 PM
- Johanna Urban said...
Congrats :)
Johanna, Sweden
ART, http://johannaurban.blogspot.com/
- June 25, 2010 at 7:17 AM
Congrats Eric. You deserve many more interviews. Your work is so appealing in every way.
- June 25, 2010 at 3:31 PM
- Gina said...
Oh that is terrific! Congratulations.
- June 25, 2010 at 5:49 PM
- Tracy said...
Cool interview :) Interesting to read...thanks for sharing!
- June 25, 2010 at 7:46 PM
- Pagas said...
- June 26, 2010 at 6:32 AM
- Eric Barclay said...
Thanks so much!
- June 26, 2010 at 8:15 AM
- AtelierBrigitte said...
Happy belated birthday!
Great interview - I loved reading it.
- June 27, 2010 at 8:09 AM
- Shirley said...
Congrats, Eric! What a great interview - love the full illustration of your kitties! And you're very well spoken.
- June 27, 2010 at 11:50 AM
- Gaia said...
Great interview, Eric!
I read it a few days ago because it was passed on twitter by Jannie Ho and Jon Woodward! It would be nice to see you there too, there are quite a few illustrators and is a great way to share infos.
I also love your entry for satellite. The texture is lovely! :)
- June 30, 2010 at 3:19 PM
- Eugenia Gina said...
woah!cool! gotta read this.... :D
- July 1, 2010 at 6:59 PM
- Sierra said...
Dear Eric Barclay,
HEY! I love your illustrations. They're great and funny! PRETTY PLEASE visit my blog at www.sierraschirp.blogspot.com! Please COMMENT and REPLY!
Love & Rockets,
- July 1, 2010 at 8:15 PM
- yoon see said...
Congrats brother Eric Barclay!
I am so happy to see your feature there.
I read again the interview because I love your work and feel inspire so!
- July 5, 2010 at 6:09 AM
- anil ks said...
..this is inspiring..congrats eric..thanks for sharing..
- July 8, 2010 at 4:05 AM


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Surging Flyers top Canucks in shootoutby Kevin Woodley
VANCOUVER - Steve Mason doesn't think the Philadelphia Flyers could have overcome a break like the one that put them behind late in regulation against the Vancouver Canucks when they were struggling during their early weeks of the season.
A lot has changed since then.
Brayden Schenn picked up brother Luke by tying the game in the final minute of regulation, and Vincent Lecavalier completed the comeback with the only goal in the shootout, lifting the Flyers to a 4-3 win against the Vancouver Canucks on Monday night.
"Realistically speaking, probably not," Mason, who made 41 saves before stopping all three in the shootout, said when asked if they could have pulled off a similar comeback two months ago.
"We were very fragile back then."
Philadelphia isn't fragile any more. After Luke Schenn accidentally knocked a rebound into his own net to put the Canucks ahead with 2:48 left in regulation, younger brother Brayden scored his first goal in 17 games with 46.8 seconds remaining and Mason pulled for the extra attacker.
After a scoreless overtime, Lecavalier beat Eddie Lack with a nice deke and forehand shot over the blocker in the first round of the shootout, and Mason stopped Mike Santorelli, Ryan Kesler and Daniel Sedin to preserve the comeback as the Flyers improved to 6-1-1 in their past eight games.
"For the guys to show that kind of resiliency and be able to come right back after a pretty deflating goal is nice," said Mason, admitting he had his head down on the bench when Brayden Schenn tied it. "Just looking down, trying not to watch those last minutes, tense moments, but I heard the boys cheering and it's nice to see them battling like that."
It was fitting that the younger Schenn got the Flyers even after older brother Luke accidentally knocked a rebound from a long Daniel Sedin shot off Mason's blocker, up over the goalie and into the net.
The lead lasted just over two minutes. After Sean Couturier won a draw in the Vancouver end, Scott Hartnell won a battle atop the Canucks' crease and fed across Brayden Schenn for a tap-in.
"A little brotherly love," Mason said.
There was also a blown faceoff coverage that had Canucks coach John Tortorella steaming - and swearing - after his team's first home loss in eight games.
"The mistake on the faceoff, that's aggravating," Tortorella said. "That's what keeps you out of playoffs, plays like that, the details, the faceoffs. I thought we played our ass off back-to-back. We created a tremendous amount of scoring chances, but you kick yourself in the teeth for the lack of detail on the faceoff. That aggravates me."
Fourth-line wing Tom Sestito, who was claimed off waivers from the Flyers in March, and Jannik Hansen scored second-period goals to put the Canucks ahead, but Flyers captain Claude Giroux scored on a partial break with 68 seconds left in the period to tie it 2-2.
Defenseman Mark Streit opened the scoring the Flyers, who had lost five straight road games before winning the first two of a six-game trip that continues Tuesday against the Calgary Flames.
"We can be better," said Giroux, who assisted on Streit's goal to extend his point streak to nine games and 17 points. "At some points during the game we are playing well but we need to be consistent. When we played the way we want to play we got goals."
The Flyers have scored 30 of them in the past eight games, led by a top line of Giroux, Jakub Voracek, and rookie Michael Raffl, who had two assists against the Canucks. Voracek had his nine-game point streak snapped, but the trio has 40 points in the past 10 games.
Despite that, Giroux was quick to pass the credit back to Mason, who stopped Daniel Sedin on a breakaway and pushed across to rob David Booth on a 2-on-1 break early in the third period.
"Same story as the start of the year, he kept us in the games and now to get a win for him it's huge," Giroux said. "He's unbelievable, the saves he's making. He's our hardest-working guy so when the goalie is the hardest working guy the players are going to follow."
The Canucks couldn't do the same for Lack, who was coming off an 18-save shutout against Calgary the night before and was making back-to-back starts for the first time in the NHL. He made 24 saves as the Canucks lost for the third time in December (10-1-2).
"This game had no business going into overtime," said Hansen, who scored the winning goal in a 2-0 victory at Calgary on Sunday and put the Canucks ahead with 3:09 left in the second period on Monday.
"We should have closed this out earlier."
Giroux tied it two minutes later after Raffl sent him in on a partial break, holding off the check of Hamhuis and drawing a penalty before slipping the bouncing puck between the legs of Lack.
After a slow start that saw him record just seven assists in the first 15 games, Giroux has six goals and 17 points during his point streak and 37 points in 39 games overall.
Flyers forward Wayne Simmonds was held without a point for the first time in six games, ending a point streak that included two goals in each of the past three games.
Already down to their ninth defenseman with the loss of Andrew Alberts on Sunday and the Monday morning recall of Frank Corrado from the American Hockey League, the Canucks got another scare when Kevin Bieksa was hit in the face by a clearing attempt with seven minutes left in the first period. Bieksa left clutching a towel to his face and the Flyers scored while he was in the locker room, but he was back before the period ended.


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City life requires a lot of attention. Navigating a busy sidewalk while processing loud storefronts and avoiding rogue pigeons may feel like second-nature at times, but it's actually quite a bit of work for the human brain.
Psychologists do know that quick walks through the park can restore our focus, but they're still getting a handle on just what urbanization means for human cognition.
A new series of behavioral studies offers some of the richest evidence to date on the mental exhaustion of urban living. In an upcoming issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, a group of British psychologists reports that people who live in cities show diminished powers of general attention compared to people from remote areas. With so much going on around them, urbanites don't pay much attention to surroundings unless they're highly engaging.
Instead, as the researchers put it, city dwellers have developed a form of attention that puts priority on "the search for potential dangers or new opportunities":
While reduced attentional engagement may be advantageous in high-demanding urban scenarios, it comes at the cost of a generally reduced level of attentional selectivity.
The research team from Goldsmiths' College, part of the University of London system, conducted their studies with a unique population: the Himba people of Namibia. Some Himba remain traditional cattle herders, while others now lead a "largely Western existence" in the nearby town of Opuwo. The scenario created a rare opportunity to examine the urban-rural psychological divide in raw form.
(To be sure their findings had broader relevance, the researchers also ran some tests with Londoners and found the two types of urban brains to be similar.)
In one experiment, the researchers gave the Himba a basic spatial attention task. The study participants identified a target (in this case, arrows pointing a certain way) on a visual screen filled with other distractors (arrows pointing other ways). The traditional Himba, living in remote regions, showed more focused attention during the task than the city Himba did. The poor performance held for all urbanites — those born in the city as well as those who'd moved there later in life.
In a second test, the researchers found they could overload the brains of rural Himba so they'd perform like urban Himba. This time test participants repeated the spatial task but also had to juggle a working memory task (e.g. remembering several numbers) in between trials. With this additional distraction on their minds (known as "cognitive load"), rural Himba had the same reduced focus that city Himba had shown in the initial experiment.
"Indeed, the effect of cognitive load was indistinguishable from the effect of urbanization," the researchers report.
After a few more experiments the researchers formulated a theory about what's happening here. They don't think city life actually depletes one's powers of attention. (That's because, on one test of straight working memory, city Himba scored higher than rural Himba.) Instead, they suspect that city attention only becomes engaged when people cross paths with something especially worthy of notice. (On other tests, city Himba did show the same focus as rural Himba when they looked at highly engaging stimuli, like faces.)
So a quick summary, for those readers on the verge of losing focus: the brains of people in remote places seem ready to focus on the task at hand, while the brains of their urban counterparts seem prepared to explore the ever-changing conditions of city life. Certainly explains why some country folk find the city overwhelming, and some city folk find the country a little dull. Nothing personal — strictly neural.


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RALEIGH - Rodney Purvis lost some self-confidence - and his starting job - during the past few weeks. The North Carolina State freshman is getting one of those things back by making a case to reclaim the second one.
Purvis scored a season-high 21 points to lead the Wolfpack's 82-64 rout of Boston College on Wednesday night.
After starting N.C. State's first 18 games and slipping into a slump, he was replaced in the starting lineup by fellow freshman T.J. Warren.
"That's not a fun thing to do when you are that guy" who gets benched, coach Mark Gottfried said. "He's responded in a positive way."
He certainly got back to playing like the gem of one of the nation's top recruiting classes, hitting 8 of his 11 shots, reaching double figures for the first time since Feb. 2 and improving on his previous high of 19 points set against BC in January.
"I was going through a little stretch where I was losing a little confidence in myself," Purvis said. "But I stayed motivated - I'm always motivated to get better - and I just tried to push myself more and more. That's the biggest thing."
Scott Wood added 17 points with five 3-pointers while Purvis scored six during the run of 10 straight points midway through the second half that helped the Wolfpack (20-8, 9-6 Atlantic Coast Conference) pull away.
Warren scored 13 points, Lorenzo Brown had 11 and C.J. Leslie finished with 10 in an encouraging bounce-back performance for N.C. State, which is a half-game behind fourth-place Virginia in the race for one of the four first-round byes in the ACC tournament.
"We've won four out of five. Sky's not falling. We're still swinging," Gottfried said. "They're excited about trying to finish the year really well, and I think that's something they want. And so we've just got to keep going."
Lonnie Jackson scored 16 points and Olivier Hanlan and Ryan Anderson each had 12 for Boston College (12-16, 4-11).
The Eagles fell to 1-7 in conference road games and absorbed their second blowout on Tobacco Road in a four-day span. Duke beat them by 21 on Sunday.
"We played in two very difficult places," BC coach Steve Donahue said. "These two games we lost to two good teams in two difficult places to win in. We did not keep our composure, but the teams we lost to played a major role in that."
And unlike that beatdown at Cameron Indoor Stadium, Boston College was in this one into the second half. Jackson's free throw with 16:51 left pulled the Eagles to 39-34.
That's when the uptempo Wolfpack finally got themselves off and running. N.C. State turned two BC turnovers into fast-break layups by Purvis.
After Wood hit two free throws following a technical foul on BC's Ryan Anderson, Purvis added a jumper in the lane to push the lead to 49-34 with 13 minutes left.
"Any time we can get (Purvis) out in transition, he's a lethal player," Wood said. "So we've got to keep ... getting him out on transition where he's best."
The Eagles didn't get closer than 11 the rest of the way while the Wolfpack gradually grew their lead. Brown made it a 20-point game with a layup with just over 8 minutes left.
It was also a night of redemption for Leslie, who finished with as many turnovers (six) as points in a loss at rival North Carolina on Saturday.
"I thought he was unselfish," Gottfried said. "I think he passed the ball, he rebounded. Defensively he was a little bit better. He's one of those guys - every team expects their better players to play well. That's part of life and we have that expectation for him every night."
Richard Howell had 10 rebounds for N.C. State, which improved to 15-1 at home and reached the 20-win mark for the second time in Gottfried's two seasons.
The Wolfpack threatened to run the Eagles out of PNC Arena by reeling off 14 straight points during an early 22-4 run that ended on Leslie's free throw that made it 22-6.
For BC, that start was eerily reminiscent of the 12 consecutive points it allowed Duke to score during the 48-17 run that effectively ended that game by halftime.
Only, this time, the youth-dominated Eagles responded by scoring 11 straight points - including three 3-pointers in less than 2 minutes - to immediately, but temporarily, get back in it. Later, Jackson's around-and-in 3 in the final minute of the half made it 30-27.


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Squirrelfriends, they don't call "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars" the best show on TV for nothing. Well, I don't call it that for nothing.
It's taken a few episodes to really get rolling, but now we're down to the wire and this week, things got thrilling.
When last we met, the queens were forming girl groups, with Alexis Mateo and Yara Sofia being sent to sashay away.
Back in the workroom, the final four chew over the previous episode and all decide that no one is safe. Soon, Ru enters to give the girls their mini-challenge, a basketball game of Skirts vs. Skins. There are some unhappy drag queens up in this mug.
"This is like my worst nightmare," says Chad Michaels with a groan. "Sports and day drag. What a treat!"
As they get ready, some of the most fuglious drag ever put together begins to take shape in the "Drag Race" workroom. And the ladies are not totally unaware of this.
"We all combined could not look any more disgusting. I feel like Peg Bundy on steroids," Shannel says, being perhaps even a bit overly generous about her own look.
Raven looks uncannily like Kris Jenner on testosterone but plays basketball with surprising ability. Between her and Jujubee, they manage to win the challenge.
"Take your victory lap, you f*cking whores!" Chad says, with more graciousness than you might imagine.
As the winners strut their stuff, Ru fills them in on their main challenge, which will be to create drag superfoes. One in each pair will be a superhero and the other a supervillain. The winners will make it into their own comic book.
As they get down to brass tacks, the queens' personalities shine through as they plot their hero/villain backstories.
Chad suggests something about fire pussies and vagina rejuvenations and it's all very horrible.
"Really?" Shannel asks in her best "perhaps you'd like to rethink that one, tragic Tammy" voice. She counters with a tale of exotic black diamond thievery.
No, Chad decides. It would be much better to have Shannel's boobs shoot magical fire extinguisher that renders Chad's superhero helpless.
She starts to plot the red pubic hair she'll have sticking out of the crotch of her costume.
Oh, Chad. Explain it to Ru, please.
"I'm from Little Twat, Arkansas," Chad says of her character.
"Oh, that's such a sweet town!" Ru exclaims a bit uncertainly.
"They run things real tight over there. They run a tight ship," Chad replies.
Ru pauses, takes a breath and gently suggests they tone things down. Like, tone them all the way down. To the freaking ground. You wierdos.
As Shad frantically de-pornos their plot, Rujubee get to telling Ru their plan.
Here's the story, as I understand it:
There is a planet with a dark side and a light side (how very Pink Floyd!) and the superhero and villain both live on the dark side. But then the she-ro gets a tanning gun (?) from the library (?) that shoots people with melanin and allows them to live on the light side of the planet.
I'm starting to suspect that Snooki may have had a hand in helping Rujubee with their backstory.
Ru thinks perhaps they could simplify things a bit.
After scaring the living daylights out of both teams, Ru tells all of the contestants that the loser of the competition will be forced to lip-sync against her teammate, and informs them that they also have to come up with a routine for all four of them on the main stage.
As they plan their lip-sync out, Dramatic Shannel of the planet Intensia emerges to boss everyone around and pooh-pooh any choreography suggestions that don't result in her being in the center of the stage throughout the entire performance.
Raven purses those blown-up lips so hard it looks like they're gonna pop and Juju just gets realistic.
"This bitch is crazy," she says.
Shannel is literally sweating she's exuding so much oddity.
It doesn't look good for the final four routine, but there's no more time to rehearse. It's up to the queens to make. It. Work.
Back on the main stage, guest judges Elvira and Wendi McClendon-Covey will join Ru, Michelle Visage and Santino Rice in giving the side-eye to the superhero queens.
Chad's an elegant lady in red who transforms into a fire-licious diva. Her nemesis is Shannel as a dominatrix Catwoman.
Unfortunately, they've kept the "vaginal rejuvenation" backstory but just dropped a curse word here and there.
Rujubee has also kept their bizarre backstory about tanning guns but at least they've tweaked it to be a bit less convoluted.
Juju is a stunning tanned hero in a white bodysuit and long, red wig while Raven transforms from Pucci-print princess into a terrifying plastic surgery victim wrapped in the feathers of 1,000 black crows.
They're clearly the better team, at least from where I'm sitting, so it's shocking when Rujubee are forced to lip sync against one another to Robyn's "Dancing On My Own."
In the opinion of this recapper, Raven and Juju deliver the most moving lip sync in the history of "Drag Race" as they sing together, not at one another.
There are no histronics or over-the-top dancing. No one pulls their wig off or does the splits.
There are genuine tears as the friends realize one of them is heading home.
But then, Momma Ru makes it all better and announces, "F*ck it. We have a top four."
Both will stay for the finale. From the background and apparently from inside my head, Chad shouts "YES!"
See you next week, squirrelfriends, when we crown the Queen of Queens.
Go Juju!
Here are some of the best quotes from the episode:
"Nobody's on the top anymore. We're all on the bottom," Chad Michaels.
"Well, she's a top," Jujubee, pointing at Shannel.
"Well look who's here. It's the Harlot Globetrotters," RuPaul.
"I'm giving Kareema Abdula Jabara realness-a," Raven.
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My boss made a nice speech with kind words about me along with announcing to everyone that they had hired me since last year. (He repeated parts of this later with details to my faculty advisor because the quarterly meeting about my progress was today too). During the luncheon I was also given several very nice small gifts- among them a detailed pewter lapel pin in the shape of a starfish and pinned to a card with the words below. This is the second time in two weeks these words have been handed directly to me in different forms. I really like them and thought I would pass them along.
The note card ends with the words: "You make a difference, every day."
"Making a Difference"
An old man walked up a shore littered with thousands of starfish,
beached and dying after a storm.
A young man was picking them up and flinging them back into the ocean.
"Why do you bother?" the old man scoffed.
"You're not saving enough to make a difference."
The young man picked up another starfish and sent it spinning back to the water.
"Made a difference to that one," he said.
I can't change the world single handedly, but I can make a difference, one person, one moment at a time. So can you.
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New Craftsman Gallery, the oldest commercial gallery in St Ives, proudly celebrates its historic 50th Anniversary year.
Established in 1962 by Janet Leach, wife of Bernard Leach, the New Craftsman is regarded as one of the most important spaces for contemporary artists in the town. Having nurtured the reputations of key St Ives School artists such as Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Bryan Winter, Patrick Heron and Peter Lanyon, it continues to showcase original works by emerging and established Cornish artists.
New Craftsman's historic 50th Anniversary event promises to be a unique and inspiring event which will comprise of a huge catalogue of saleable works as well as a handful of works on loan from private collections by many New Craftsman artists of the past 50 years.
The exhibition spans the whole of the gallery from 18th of August - 5th of September and from the 11th of October - 10th of November.


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- Publication: How to increase earthquake and home fire preparedness: the "fix-it" intervention
- Publication: Debate continues in relation to sample sizes for thematic analyses - 'Shine bright like a diamond'? A reply to Braun and Clarke
- Publication: How effective are internet support groups for people with depression and anxiety?
- Publication: Predictors of influenza vaccine uptake during the 2009/10 influenza A H1N1v ('swine flu') pandemic: Results from five national surveys in the United Kingdom
- Dissertation Study Day on 1 December Marked by Two Special Presentations
- Publication: How Do Clinical Information Systems Affect the Cognitive Demands of General Practitioners?: Usability Study with a Focus on Cognitive Workload
- Publication: Cost-benefit assessment of using electronic health records data for clinical research versus current practices: Contribution of the electronic health records for clinical research (EHR4CR) European project
- Publication: Who is sceptical about emerging public health threats? Results from 39 national surveys in the United Kingdom.
- Publication: Sex differences in medico-legal action against doctors: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Recruitment: Teaching Fellow
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- March 2015 Health Informatics Short Courses Open for Booking
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- CHIME Hosts Kazakh Government Delegation
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- NHS Health Informatics Trainees Conference and Networking Event
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"Patient Safety, Law Policy and Practice"
25 May 2011
Pippa Bark's book, co-edited with John Tingle, a lawyer from Nottingham, has just been published by Routledge. (Link: Amazon)
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RANCHO CORDOVA, CA. -- The Yale women's crew team had a glorious second day at the NCAA Championships on Lake Natoma. All three boats -- the varsity eight, second varsity eight and the varsity four -- qualified for the Grand Final for the first time in school history. In the semifinals of the varsity eight, the Bulldogs won their heat with a time of 6:36.6, nearly one second ahead of second-place Michigan. In the second varsity eight, Yale was second in the repechage with a time of 6:48.8. The top two teams in the repechage advance to the Grand Final. The Bulldogs also finished second in the varsity four repechage with a time of 7:34.0. Yale is one of only three schools to have a boat in the three Grand Finals. California and Brown are the others.
"It's so exciting," said Alicja Witkowski, who was in the eight seat of the varsity boat. "This is a groundbreaking day for Yale women's crew. It's a testament to the tremendous amount of work we've put in all season long."
"This is a huge step for our program," added Yale Head Coach Will Porter. "We've talked all season about being at our best when our best is needed, and today we did that."
Joining Witkowski in the varsity boat are Jehan Budak, Jane Moore, Ashley Brzozowicz, Claire Norsetter, Maria Stevens, Amanda Kendrick, Joanna Hess and Rachel Jeffers.
Yale's second varsity is Emily Cleveland, Charlotte Taft, Jennifer Reifsnyder, Dinah Dimalanta, Rachel Withers, Catherine Wassenaar, Mary Kate Sullivan, Annemarie von der Goltz and Jennifer Draxl.
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"We have momentum and we'll race with that," Porter said. "It should be a great day of racing."
NCAA Women's Rowing Championships
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Varsity Four Repechege
1. Brown 7:33.0; 2. Yale 7:34.0; 3. Michigan State 7:36.2; 4. Wisconsin 7:36.8; 5. Washington State 7:47.5
Second Varsity Eight Repechege
1. Washington State 6:48.4; 2. Yale 6:48.8; 3. Virginia 6:49.3; 4. Michigan State 6:58.9; 5. Ohio State 7:00.9
Varsity Eight Semifinals
1. Yale 6:36.6; 2. Michigan 6:37.8; 3. Ohio State 6:38.9; 4. Virginia 6:40.1; 5. Notre Dame 6:51.3; 6. USC 6:51.31


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Teaming for the same goal: Stamford-Westhill-Staples co-op sees steady progress in first season
The jerseys look like they belong to race car drivers, though the various stitched material are not sponsors. There is one school name diagonally across the front, another over the left shoulder. One sleeve has the logo of a Viking, the other a Black Knight.
"Everybody is just kind of blending together right now," said Eli Williams, the coach of ... who exactly? Call it the Stamford-Westhill-Staples co-op girls hockey team, a blend of players from the three schools, which usually goes by Stamford on your scorecard and lacks a nickname, at least until they figure out what you get when your cross a Black Knight, Viking and Wrecker.
"We all wanted to make it work, and it is working. It is like everyone is all from one school," he said.
The Stamford girls hockey team is one of the FCIAC's more unique blends. Because neither Stamford nor Westhill had enough players to fill one team, that have played together as a co-op. Staples, which was a co-op last season with Trumbull, decided to part ways.
"I think the Staples girls were looking for a home and they called our athletic director," said Williams, referring to Stamford's Jim Moriarty. "I said `Why not?' "
With the addition of the eight players from Staples, Stamford has become more competitive. Following Wednesday night's 9-2 loss to Ridgefield, the Stamford team is 2-6, with one more win than last year. The record is somewhat misleading; scores are much closer from a year ago.
Without outstanding goaltending from Casey Bang, a Staples student, Ridgefield easily could have scored several more goals.
"It's crazy," said Sam Jaykus, a defenseman and one of the team's four co-captains. "The Westhill and Stamford girls know each other pretty well. Then Staples came, and it was pretty exciting. We love having them on the team."
Williams admittedly was part coach, part social director at the start of the season.
"The Staples girls didn't know anyone, but it did not take long before they started to open up," Williams said. "We had some pasta parties. The bus rides were almost the best thing. I had a rule that everyone had to sit with someone from a different school. They started talking together and that really helped."
Linsey Furman, a junior at Staples, agreed the transition went seamlessly.
"It's not that much different from last year," Furman said. "We didn't know each other and it took a little while to warm up to each other. Now it is a lot easier. It has been really good."
Perhaps the biggest obstacles have been logistical. Because of distance, it is sometimes hard scheduling practices when everyone can attend. And depending on the location of road games, bus rides from Stamford may make a detour to Westport to pick up the players from Staples.
"It is a little bit harder to manage, but we like it," Jaykus said. "We have more good players now, which helps us out a lot. We are a lot better than last year."
To make their new teammates feel at home, Stamford took its uniforms, with the name of the home city across the front, and had a patch with Staples spelled out added on the shoulder.
Williams said with 28 players, there is now the kind of depth that puts Stamford on a par with other schools, with the opportunity to play some unofficial junior varsity games that will help player development.
"The coaching style is a little bit different," Furman said. "It's a little bit more laid back. A little bit more about having fun."
Stamford has a budding star in sophomore Cassie Miolene, its leading scorer, and Bang has had a great year. Williams attributed team unity to his captains: Jaykus and Ciara Killian, who attend Stamford; Jess Blasnik, who goes to Westhill, and Staples' Jess Lepisto.
Williams said Jaykus, who was one of the top players on the Stamford field hockey team and has an outsized personality, is one of the people who has held the pieces together.
"She's our go-to girl," Williams said. "When times get tough the girls look to her for guidance. She's a born leader. If she sees someone sitting by herself or down, she will go up to them and say something like, `I used to struggle like that.' She was born with that gift."
Said Jaykus, "It has all been very exciting. We are the underdog and then we come out and surprise people. It's a fun experience."
No one knows what the future holds beyond this year, though Williams said he would be happy to maintain the status quo as a means to an end.
"The Staples girls needed a place to play, and I am trying to turn this into a stellar program," he said. "I want to see this thing flourish. I want to put Stamford hockey on the map."
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