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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patients’ trust in how their health information is managed is essential to the success of emerging models for electronically sharing patient health information. Patients may be unfamiliar with, and ...