Michigan has no laws to prevent medical students from practicing invasive exams on unconscious patients. Two policy experts ...

Informed consent is a fundamental component of modern healthcare and represents a patient's right to understand and agree to a medical procedure, treatment or study. True informed consent empowers ...

Agreements in 2021 and 2023 called for USC to provide 12 “fresh tissue cadaver bodies” per year for the U.S. Navy to use in ...

People who have lost the ability to speak could benefit from brain-computer interfaces. But communication barriers can limit their participation in research studies. This article first appeared in The ...

Consent in the medical field is vital to ensuring a patient’s comfort and safety. Some people, however, are sounding the alarm about what they believe to be a major blind spot: the lack of informed ...

The informed consent model of care is based on providing accurate and in-context information so that you can make the best decision about your healthcare plan. When people talk about options for ...

The nonprofit organization calls on federal leaders to withhold funds from states restricting vaccine exemptions ...

Informed consent is more than just a form; it is a process that actively involves the participant. It is an "ongoing exchange of information between the investigator and [participant]" per the OHRP.

When the government pulls a public health ad campaign, it usually raises more questions than it answers. And when the government's official happens to be an attorney with a controversial stance on ...