The open-access journal movement seeks to make medical research and treatment articles available free of charge to health professionals around the globe.
Primary materials including interviews with some of the volunteer subjects provide information on the experiments into the pathogenic mechanism of yellow fever.
Institutional review boards (IRBs) have the responsibility to ensure the protection of human-research subjects and are legally liable if they fail to do so.
The bias for publishing positive clinical-research results can cause physicians to question journal articles as dependable sources of product information.