The Trump administration has dismantled key federal oversight mechanisms meant to hold police departments accountable for ...

Writers’ concerns about AI are not only about payment; they are about consent, trust and the future of their profession.

Recently, it emerged that a team of researchers at the University of Zurich had conducted a study to manipulate Reddit users ...

Users of the r/ChangeMyView subreddit have expressed outrage at the revelation that researchers at the University of Zurich ...

This article describes how the South supra-region of the NIHR Clinical Research Network developed a collaborative approach to deliver online learning about informed consent for research purposes ...

There is a gap between men and women's understanding and expectations of sexual consent, according to the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. National research on public attitudes to sexual consent found ...

STAT’s investigation has set off a debate within the neurosurgical community about patient consent, and how to ethically pursue sensitive brain research that provides no therapeutic benefit.

When investigators anticipate unfavorable consequences for participants who withdraw from a research study, both anticipated consequences of and planned safeguards for early withdrawal must be ...

The HeLa cell line was initially taken from Henrietta Lacks at the Johns Hopkins Medical Center in 1951 without her consent. From crucial vaccines to new insights about diseases, nearly all biomedical ...

Informed consent promotes trust and understanding between patients and researchers, she added later, and can attract and retain people who are traditionally underrepresented in research.

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