There are many discussions against the use of health volunteers in medical tests as there are many risks involved they are exposed to.

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Disposable Heroes & Guinea Pigs Discussion Postings

It has largely been argued out that the U.S government uses war veterans to carry out clinical trials and research on newly discovered therapies and drugs. These veterans commonly known as disposable heroes in research fields are at government disposal. Healthy volunteers agree to be used as research subjects due to motivational reasons like financial gain, indebtedness, or self-sacrifice. Researchers or rather the sponsors of these research organizations enter into study and researches so as to develop new or enhance the already discovered vaccines and medications with the goal of making profits (no 'disposable heroes' n.d.).

There are rules, laws and regulations to safeguard these volunteers and the researchers are bound by the law to follow them before and while subjecting the research subjects into therapeutic of drugs tasting. For instance each research institution has to take full responsibility in complying with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) set of laws for the presentation of all explore studies involving human subjects. These institutions have the sole duty of enlightening the researchers on issues touching scientific integrity and research ethics. They are also mandated to carry out investigations pertaining scientific misconduct cases by the research organizations (Roles and responsibilities of institutions in human subject research (n.d.)).

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It’s the responsibility of the IRB to analyze and approve the clinical trials proposed by the research companies through carrying out investigations on the study sites to check whether they comply with the regulations of human safety and welfare of the research subjects. In any human research, application to the FDA has to be made first so that reviews and investigations are done to validate the research and ensure that regulations are followed to the latter.

Human subjects or rather participants vary greatly ranging from those are health either first timers or who have participated before and who ...

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