Informed consent is a process that’s required for most medical procedures. However, there’s often confusion about what informed consent is, what it means, and when it’s needed. In a healthcare setting ...

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The Orissa high court has ordered authorities to revise the APAAR ID consent form. The court observed the current format ...

Biju Krishnan explains why cultural sensitivity is essential to fulfil legal and ethical obligations in dental consent.

Court said that while all opposite parties maintained that the scheme was voluntary, the language of the consent form ...

Orissa HC urges the Centre to include opt-out options in APAAR ID consent forms amid privacy concerns linked to Aadhaar.

Although informed consent for clinical treatment has become a vital part of contemporary medical practice, it means different things in different contexts (Figure 1), is variably practised and rarely ...

Children are persons who have not attained the legal age for consent to treatments or procedures involved in research; in New York state, anyone under the age of 18 is considered a child. There are ...

Background: Consent forms have become too long and often do little to help people understand the risk elements of their participation in research, instead focusing on risk reduction for research ...

The father of a teenage boy allegedly given female estrogen pills for a behavioral disorder while in custody at a Los Angeles County juvenile hall alleges someone forged his signature on a medical ...