Informed consent is not just a formality; it’s a vital part of respecting patient autonomy and ensuring ethical healthcare ...

Warning! Sweeping changes in public health are on the rise. The latest word, according to Stat, is that the Department of ...

Our new Secretary of Health and Human Services wants to change CDC messaging about vaccines to emphasize "informed consent." ...

Prior to the vote on the Senate floor, Sen. Andre Jacque, R-New Franken, one of the bill’s cosponsors, said the bill will ...

The IRB determines, for each protocol it reviews, which of the following elements and disclosures must be included in the informed consent process ... and referred to their primary care physician or ...

Read this article to learn about online informed consent training for clinical trials, using a collaborative approach.

Informed consent is one of the primary requirements of research involving human participants. It is important to remember that informed consent is an ongoing process, not a document or single event.

Sarah Herrington is a biology major and she is a 2024-25 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own. Ethical decision making is a ...

Recognizing decades of coercive and abusive psychiatric “treatment,” the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calls for ...

The "prudent patient" standard of informed consent focuses on the risks ... that the individuals have the right to make their own health care decisions. [19] Up to mid-1800s Abortion was legal ...