After three sessions, Texas lawmakers passed a bill last month that defines consent and fixes what advocates called a ...

The bipartisan measure, authored by Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, and carried in the Senate by Sen. Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, passed the House 135-2 and the Senate 31-0 before reaching the governor’s ...

The French Senate approved a bill that would overhaul the country’s legal framework on sexual assault. What is the proposed ...

The French Senate has passed a bill that would define rape and sexual assault as any act without consent, bringing the country in line with several European neighbours .

The bill passed by both chambers defines consent as "free and informed, specific, prior and revocable", adding that it "cannot be inferred from the victim's silence or lack of reaction alone".

The French Senate passed a bill late on Wednesday that includes lack of consent in the country's criminal definition of rape, paving the way for its official adoption in the coming months.

High quality care is patient-centred.1 Efforts to promote patient-centred care in clinical practice should improve quality. Both shared decision-making (SDM) and the process of obtaining informed ...

Informed consent is a cornerstone of most other medical therapies and treatments, but according to a 2023 study, it is not the standard approach to gender affirming care in the United States.

Informed consent in surgical settings requires not only the accurate communication of medical information but also the establishment of trust through empathic engagement. The use of large language ...

By definition, if women feel they cannot decline, their consent is not valid. If we cannot say no, our yes means nothing.

In a cluster randomised trial (CRT), intact groups—such as communities, clinics or schools—are randomised to the study intervention or control conditions. The issue of informed consent in CRTs has ...