T he age at which people can consent to medical, dental, and mental health services could soon be increased in Alabama. The Alabama Senate concurred with a bill, giving it final passage.

In Utah, patients who consent to "hormonal transgender treatment" or surgery on "sex characteristics" while they are minors are able to revoke their informed consent if they later regret receiving ...

A bill to raise the age at which people can make their own medical decisions from 14 to 16 is headed to Gov. Kay Ivey’s desk for signature. It was approved by the Alabama Senate on Wednesday ...

Stutts’ bill and SB58, brought forth by Sen. Sam Givhan, R-Huntsville, would require that a person must be 18 to give consent unless they are married, divorced, pregnant, emancipated, or living ...

Tennessee's Mature Minor Doctrine, which allowed for adolescent medical consent in some instances, became widely publicized during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic over highly politicized ...

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 ...

First-of-its-kind AI-driven consent management platform empowers patients, clinicians, and administrators NEW YORK, April 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Velatura Public Benefit Corporation (Velatura ...