Attachment 6

           GREATER BOSTON RADIATION RESEARCH

OVERVIEW

Type of institution: MIT and Harvard:  university; linked with 
teaching hospitals Massachusetts General, Peter Bent Brigham, 
Deaconess, Children's

Mission: Research; liked with teaching and patient care

Links: AEC; Military; Fernald; Oak Ridge (ORINS)

Experiments or other radiation research:
*    Uranium injections at Mass General
*    Retrospective dial painter studies
*    Iodine studies at MIT before, during, after World War II
*    Fernald experiments
*    Various therapies and tracer studies for thyroid cancer
Secret or classified research: Yes, but details not known

AVAILABLE DATA 

Experiments: 
*    Histories of research program: Some (Fernald study, MGH in-house 
     review), but none comprehensive
*    "Start/stop" documents for specific experiments/programs: 
     Presumed available but none specifically identified
*    Publications or reports for specific experiments/programs : 
     Presumed available but none specifically identified

Program:
*    Record of chains of command for program decisions and review : 
     None fully traced
*    Funding source: AEC; military; HHS and predecessors

Was there secret or classified funding? Likely, but not specifically 
identified

Consent:  What was the extant consent policy? 
          Not known for experiments of interest identified here
*    The  institutional form for the policy: Not known for experiments 
     of interest identified here
*    Records of implementation: Not known for experiments of interest 
     identified here

Subject selection:
          Comatose patients; children at Fernald

OVERSIGHT
          Presumed, but not specifically identified


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