Effective July 12, 1974 | Public law 93-348 | |
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Other short titles National Research Service Award Act of 1974 Long title An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a program of National Research Service Awards to assure the continued excellence of biomedical and behavioral research and to provide for the protection of human subjects involved in biomedical and behavioral research and for other purposes. Nicknames National Biomedical Research Fellowship, Traineeship, and Training Act Enacted by the 93rd United States Congress | ||
The National Research Act was enacted by the 93rd United States Congress. It created the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research to develop guidelines for human subject research and to oversee and regulate the use of human experimentation in medicine. It was partly a response to the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study.
The act was signed into law on July 12, 1974.
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