Few would argue with a way to speed up city government meetings. Toward the beginning of most city council meetings a few minutes are usually reserved for the consent agenda, which contains a few ...

Efforts to update the city's sexual offence laws aim to reflect evolving views on consent and improve prosecution outcomes ...

There has been a lot of focus on the need to teach older children about consent. But parents should not wait until kids are ...

Editor’s Note: Assistant Editor Sarah Sparks covers education research. This analysis is part of a special report exploring pressing trends in education. Read the full report: 10 Big Ideas in ...

Institutional review boards (IRBs) are charged with safeguarding potential research subjects with limited literacy but may have an inadvertent role in promulgating unreadable consent forms. We ...

To facilitate ethically acceptable and practically successful health care–embedded biobanking, the attitudes and understanding of patients and their motivation to participate need to be explored. The ...

Adam Winstock is the founder and CEO of Global Drug Survey Ltd, an independent research organisation based in London.GDS self funds through providing reports to media, public health and pharmaceutical ...

In around 30 states across the U.S., the age of consent is 16 years old. Meanwhile, in just a handful of states, the age of consent is 17 years old. In more than eleven states, including Florida, the ...

Clery compliance can be complicated. Fulfilling the Clery Act’s reporting requirements takes money and time — hundreds of campuses are hiring additional compliance coordinators and the Department of ...

Dog-human relationships range greatly from those in which dogs are at the mercy of total human control and treated as captive animals to those in which the dogs and their humans form ongoing ...