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2. Department of Health and Human Services “Medical privacy: National standards to protect the privacy of personal health information”; www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa.
3. National Institutes of Health “Protecting personal health information in research: Understanding the HIPAA Privacy Rule”; http://privacyruleandresearch.nih.gov/pr_02.asp.
4. Congressional Research Service “Federal protection for human research subjects: An analysis of the Common Rule and its interactions with FDA regulations and the HIPAA privacy rule” (2005); www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32909.pdf.
5. European Commission Data Protection in the European Union (EU) www.ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy.