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Nature 437, 451 (22 September 2005) | doi:10.1038/437451a; Published online 21 September 2005

Don't keep your distance

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Investigations that involve human subjects always require a close relationship between the researchers and those being studied.

The US Institute of Medicine (IOM) has, in effect, directed researchers who work with human subjects to come down out of their ivory towers. The call is made in a report, issued on 19 September, that addresses the procedures that scientists should follow when they are investigating the health of underprivileged children.

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