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." ...

A new dataset captures more than 170 years of US state laws governing minors' legal capacity to independently consent to ...

There is sea change in America’s framework for conducting experiments on humans, involving a provision quietly implemented by ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. Today, in a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) again asked for unanimous consent (UC) to pass ...

Under current state law, a minor who is at least 14 years of age, or who has graduated from high school, or who is married, divorced, or pregnant may give legal consent to medical, dental ...

It never saw life. Now, Stutts — a man who once horrifically tried to kill a bill named for a patient who died under his care — wants to raise the age of medical consent in the state from 14 ...

The University of North Texas Health Science Center’s failure to obtain permission before using corpses for research may have ...