Finally, even where the IRB determines that the child participants are capable of assenting, the IRB may still waive the assent requirement under circumstances in which consent may be waived for adults in accordance with 45 CFR 46.116(d) regarding waiver or alteration of informed consent.
John Rawls, Theorist on Justice, Is Dead at 82. John Rawls, the American political theorist whose work gave new meaning and resonance to the concepts of justice and liberalism, died on Sunday at his home in Lexington, Mass. He was 82. The cause was heart failure, his wife, Margaret, said.
Heart Disease. A sudden onset of nausea and chest pain misdiagnosed as a heart attack ended with the death of actor John Ritter on Sept. 11, 2003. Heart disease was the culprit: The 54-year-old sitcom star had actually suffered an aortic dissection: a tear in the wall of the largest blood vessel in the body, the aorta.