DOE Openness: Human Radiation Experiments: Roadmap to the Project Record Series Descriptions |
Records Series Descriptions
Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) SERIES TITLE Human Medical Research Study Protocols INCLUSIVE DATES 1950 1994 ARRANGEMENT Chronological VOLUME 10 cubic feet DESCRIPTION This series contains protocols for approved human studies projects. Starting in January 1950, the protocols consist of brief memorandums from the BNL Committee on Use of Radioactive Isotopes in Human Subjects stating that the committee has granted approval for the use of a particular isotope in human subjects. There are also memorandums, from physicians to the committee, describing their study proposals. Other types of correspondence include letters from the Isotope Division at Oak Ridge, TN, to BNL requesting further information on an application or stating that certain applications for proposed studies will be forwarded to the Subcommittee on Human Applications at Oak Ridge; and letters on BNL collaborative projects, written both by BNL researchers and by researchers at other institutions. Also included is an index of requests for use of isotopes in humans; and supplemental requests for projects. Each proposal to study radioactive isotopes in humans records the number of patients, purpose, isotope, dosage, and other physicians involved in the study. Each of these proposals is a separate experiment and several contain charts, graphs, photographs, and reprints of journal articles. From 1964 the forms change to Initiation of Review of Clinical Investigative Programs from physicians at BNL to the Committee and memorandums of approvals from the Committee on Clinical Investigations and Uses of Radioisotopes. LOCATION OF RECORDS Brookhaven National Laboratory Clinical Research Center Building 490 Upton, NY 11973 |