Health and Human Services announced in July a proposal to improve rules protecting human research.  The proposed changes can be found in an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM), Human Subjects Research Protections: Enhancing Protections for Research Subjects and Reducing Burden, Delay, and Ambiguity for Investigators, published in the July 25 Federal Register. Hurry and comment…last day to propose comments to the HHS is September 26, 2011.  Learn more here.