Help us understand the challenges patients face opting out of voluntary uses of their data, or getting access to their records.

As it upheld the dismissal of a complaint against a doctor, the Supreme Court (SC) ruled that doctors who offer proper ...

Pro-life medical groups are urging Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. to reexamine the FDA’s broad ...

From our earliest days in medical school, we learned that treatment requires a patient’s informed consent. What is less often taught is how to obtain that consent in a manner that withstands legal ...

Objective To determine whether informed consent for surgical procedures performed in US hospitals meet a minimum standard of quality, we developed and tested a quality measure of informed consent ...

Wade, and eliminates a 24-hour mandatory waiting period, a mandatory informed consent form, and a ban on advanced practice clinicians performing abortions. The court had previously granted a temporary ...

Ethical medical care of pregnant women in Australia should include the real provision of information regarding the risks and benefits of vaginal birth. Routinely obtaining consent for the different ...

Misinformed refusal: What antivaxxers are really promoting when they invoke “informed consent” Our new Secretary of Health and Human Services wants to change CDC messaging about vaccines to emphasize ...

Informed Consent Clinical Trials follow very strict scientific and ethical rules to protect patients. Being part of a clinical trial is voluntary and will not affect your standartd of care.

Individual written informed consent may present a barrier to the feasibility and inclusiveness of such low-risk clinical research. Within an overarching moral and ethical framework, the form and ...

Oklahoma's Own In Focus: Lawmaker Explains Intent Behind Women's Medical Consent Bill Oklahoma’s HB 1018 aims to prohibit unauthorized pelvic exams on anesthetized women without consent.