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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Acronym-wise, I was with you right up until that paragraph.
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IRB=Institutional Review Board (a review board that approves research on human subjects before they can be conducted).
OHRP=Office of Human Research Protections (the office at DHHS that oversees IRBs all over the country). It's possible that no federal government money was used in any of these clinical trials, but I can't imagine that the IRB for the Foster System in New York doesn't review some federally funded research, which would put it under the perview of OHRP.
On a historical note, foster kids, espeically foster kids that won't be going back to their parents and are unlikely to be adopted have been great research subjects, because they are generally in controlled conditions, so it's easy to compare and contrast.
