National Academies panel urges researchers to routinely share test results with study participants
"It's really calling for a sea change," said the author of a new National Academies report urging the routine release of test results to participants in human research.
Study participants share their blood and spit in the name of biomedical research. Now, a national group of experts says these volunteers should be told what scientists learn about their health from those samples.
In a published Tuesday, an expert committee convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine concluded that scientists and their institutions should routinely — and carefully — consider whether to return study results to participants. The report, which was sponsored by three of the leading federal
