Consent in the medical field is vital to ensuring a patient’s comfort and safety. Some people, however, are sounding the alarm about what they believe to be a major blind spot: the lack of informed ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — What do you need to know about informed consent? What are questions you should ask when you are in a hospital to make sure you and your loved ones get the best care? On this ...

The age someone can legally consent to sexual activity in Louisiana is 17. Here are penalties for engaging with minors and what constitutes as grooming.

Before you anesthetize your patient and begin the scheduled treatment, check that a signed informed consent is in the document center of the patient's computer chart or if a hard copy is in the paper ...

SAN DIEGO, CA — Is informed consent necessary to randomize patients with ST-segment elevation MI (STEMI) into clinical trials? That was the question two experts grappled with this week at the Society ...

Delivering high-quality care starts with understanding what matters most to each patient. Clinicians can’t choose treatments that match patients’ priorities and values until they engage with them. The ...

The proposal targets longstanding gaps in VA prescribing practices that leave veterans uninformed about addiction, suicide ...

A psychedelic renaissance is underway in psychiatric medicine, with a growing number of studies showing the potential of psychedelic-assisted therapy to treat several conditions, including depression, ...

I’m a senior physician with both clinical and clinical research experience. Before this year, I had undergone bilateral total hip replacements and a right total shoulder replacement. (As a younger man ...