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 ...

Additionally, the patient must be informed of feasible alternative therapies. The two legal claims are distinct, and a physician can be sued for malpractice, a type of negligence, for failing to ...

WASHINGTON — Veterans would have to provide formal, signed consent before doctors could write them prescriptions for narcotics, stimulants and anti-anxiety medicine under House legislation drawing ...

There is a sea change in America’s framework for conducting experiments on humans. The biggest surprise is that you probably know little to nothing about it. It has to do with a provision tucked into ...

Acute care research is sometimes conducted under Exception from Informed Consent regulations. In many life-threatening illnesses, patients are unconscious or too sick to provide written or verbal ...

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance for the COVID-19 vaccine Monday, ending months of confusion about the vaccine. The new guidance advises people 65 and older to ...

I sat terrified and alone atop a gurney, awaiting the scheduled time for my cystectomy, holding a clipboard with forms to complete as the nurse rushed off to do something else. There was a box to ...

The U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has made significant changes to its vaccination guidelines for both adults and children. In another update on Monday, October 6, the agency ...