An informed consent law in Michigan would ensure that patient wellbeing remains the focus of medical practices, even when ...

In the wake of the June death of a 7-month-old foster girl in deteriorating health, the Clark County Department of Family Services’ medical consent practices are being reviewed. The agency is required ...

A bill limiting when minors can consent to medical treatment without parental involvement passed the North Carolina House, with every Republican who voted supporting it and all but four Democrats who ...

Colorado medical providers will need to get patients' prior consent before medical students can perform pelvic exams on them while they are unconscious for a procedure under a bill signed into law ...

One raised the medical age of consent from age 14 to 16, which means parents in Alabama are going to have to give permission ...

A new Pennsylvania law will require medical facilities to obtain written and verbal consent from patients before performing pelvic, prostate and rectal exams on them while they are unconscious. The ...

A new Alabama law is changing how medical decisions are made for minors, giving parents more authority over their children’s ...

Turkish historians have uncovered the oldest-known example of a signed written consent form. Dating back to the 16th Century Ottoman Empire, the discovery suggests the use of these forms — in this ...

Alabama has enacted a significant change in its medical consent laws, raising the age from 14 to 16 for most medical, dental, ...