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 ...

Informed consent is integral to providing high-quality health care, yet it is too often treated as an obstacle — just a box ...

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 ...

CDC says blanket recommendations of the past stopped a frank discussion of individual risks and benefits between patients and ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Artificial intelligence (AI) now enables researchers to analyze vast amounts of clinical ...

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 ...

CDC revises COVID-19 and childhood vaccination guidelines, emphasizing "informed consent is back" and promoting shared ...

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 ...