Word In Black Renée G. Omoyeni. (Courtesy photo) (WIB) - In Houston, where the nursing shortage has reached critical ...

More and more young women are hesitant about having children. New research from Uppsala University shows that 1 in 4 are ...

Study results suggest that “telemedicine represents a unique opportunity to reduce time and travel burdens for patients with cancer considering clinical trials,” according to researchers.

After Sarah Wright underwent a traumatic pelvic exam at UW Health, she started the effort to create a bill to prevent others ...

Yet, seven of these states, including Colorado, require people under the age of 18 to get consent from or notify a parent ...

Community Regional Medical Center in downtown Fresno was recently fined almost $90,000 for wrongfully removing a Fallopian ...

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

Most aspiring med spa owners don’t realize that in many states, they legally can’t own their business without a medical degree. These corporate practice of medicine (CPOM) laws exist to prevent ...

A final report on the abuse of learning disability patients at Muckamore Abbey Hospital is likely to be published later this year, the chair of the statutory inquiry has said. The Muckamore Abbey ...

While the dry wording of the law enabled reliance on tacit or implied consent, the PPA now clarifies that explicit, informed and free consent must be prioritized. The PPA is focusing on section 11 ...

30 [32]-[35], [50]. “the language of and relating to the legislation, and the rhetoric of the judgments, is in terms which suggest a bar which is indeed ‘relatively high’ – consent must be free, ...

Synthesis of results Inductive thematic analysis was used to identify factors affecting informed consent. The findings were reviewed by co-researchers with intellectual disability to ensure they ...