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." ...

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 ...

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

However, the length and complexity of consent information can lead to patients misconstruing key points and failing to understand the implications of participation. If this is the case ...

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

Informed consent is more than a patient scribbling their signature on a piece of paper. It’s a process – a two-way street ...