What do you need to know about informed consent? What are questions you should ask when you are in a hospital to make sure ...

Amid a quiet legislative session for health, lawmakers’ priority legislation reinforced the U.S. health secretary’s agenda.

A decade ago the psychologist and thriller writer Frank Tallis published The Sleep Room, a disturbing tale of a monomaniacal psychiatrist who subjected female patients to months of high dose sedatives ...

A cache of court records has been unsealed in the high-stakes legal battle between Kansas abortion providers and Attorney ...

Last year, more than 1,700 orders for involuntary electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) were approved by tribunals in Australia.

Guidelines say consultations must thoroughly assess whether a patient is suitable for a treatment. But someone under 18 can ...

A Charter challenge to B.C.'s Mental Health Act, over a provision that groups say denies patients the ability to consent to treatment, is now being heard in B.C. Supreme Court nearly a decade ...

A Greater Manchester mental health trust has been issued an urgent ... It revealed breaches to people’s safety and patients’ consent to care and treatment. The CQC also found that there ...

Informed consent is vital for any clinical trial. However, the length and complexity of consent information can lead to patients misconstruing key points and failing to understand the implications ...

Patient preferences ... including the IC [informed consent] process and education,” the researchers wrote. Disclosures: This research was supported by the National Institutes of Health and ...

Sweeping changes in public health are on ... constitutes proper informed consent is nuanced. The understanding is different in law, medicine, and bioethics. Generally, the “informed consent” package ...

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 ...