The Idaho legislature has amended Idaho’s Medical Consent Act. The redlined changes are shown here. Effective July 1, 2023, the rules for medical ...

The age to consent to medical, dental, and mental health services could soon be increased. The Alabama Senate concurred with a bill giving it final passage.

A pregnant woman being kept alive after brain death because of Georgia’s strict abortion law raises legal and ethical questions about medical consent, experts said.

A new law in Colorado says providers must get a patient’s prior consent for medical students to perform pelvic exams while the patient is unconscious during a procedure. Proponents of the law ...

Doctors at Brown University and Mass. General are using artificial intelligence to create simplified versions of complicated medical consent forms.

Insurers said Monday that they will standardize electronic prior authorization by the end of next year to help speed up the process. They will reduce the scope of claims subject to medical prior ...

The original version of the bill would have increased the medical consent age from 14 to 18.

When the government pulls a public health ad campaign, it usually raises more questions than it answers. And when the ...

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 to 18 for people to ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on bodily autonomy and medical consent. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I am a physician in New York State who considers reproductive autonomy to be a basic human right ...

Oklahoma's HB 1018 would mandate written consent for pelvic exams on unconscious women, addressing a long-standing issue of consent in medical practices.

Minors are required to get parental consent for medical care in most cases, including gender-affirming hormone replacement therapy and surgery. If Prop 1 passes, parental consent requirements ...