Shelby Jennett has a neuroscience major and a philosophy minor and she is the 2023-24 Honzel Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own. The ...

Informed consent represents one of the most important ethical aspects of clinical treatments and scientific research involving humans. This article will discuss the key elements of informed consent ...

Jeremy Howick does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Providing informed consent is a bedrock of ethical medical practice -- and a physician’s failure to provide proper informed consent is grounds for legal action. But, determining what constitutes ...

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 ...

In her Health Affairs Blog post last fall, Sharon Brownlee lamented how frequently patients agree to treatments that they know little about. In the United States and elsewhere, clinicians have a clear ...

Research on rare diagnoses and the development of precision medicine depend on patients being able to share their health data in a secure and ethical manner. The research study, published in ...

Dyani Lewis’s News feature summarizes efforts to review data sets on the genetics of Chinese minority groups that seem not to meet ethical standards of informed consent (Nature 625, 650–654; 2024). We ...

"Perhaps the most influential ethical principle in contemporary biomedical practice is that informed consent is required for therapy and research. And yet empirical research confirms what virtually ...

When news of Aunty Esther’s death emerged, grief quickly gave way to widespread public unease. Her passing was not viewed merely as another cancer-related death, but as a stark reflection of Nigeria’s ...