The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to review a blocked Montana law that would require physicians to obtain a parent's ...

According to the facility centre, the man had signed a consent form, stating that the sample should be discarded after his ...

A yearslong effort to challenge Michigan’s practice of storing millions of dried blood samples from newborn babies has been ...

Summary box There has been a rapid increase in data-generating health research being undertaken on the African continent. Given past ethical failures for research undertaken in Africa, ongoing and ...

Introduction Time-critical neonatal trials in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) raise several ethical issues. Using a qualitative-dominant mixed-methods design, we explored informed consent ...

A hypothetical informed consent study conducted in Uganda found that trial related procedures like randomisation, placebos, and blinding were unfamiliar. 12 An informed consent study conducted in ...

This puts New Jersey out of step with other states, who in recent years were forced to end the sharing of blood samples without consent. Texas destroyed more than 5.3 million blood samples after a ...

Based on this comprehensive taxonomy of key elements, we convened the working group to offer input on the development of an abstraction tool to assess the quality of informed consent documents in ...

While Mr Brown was in a coma, his wife Annette was called by the hospital on his behalf, as the trust had to obtain consent to take his DNA. It was for the GenOMMIC research study - a UK-wide ...

A hospital has paid £3,000 in compensation after failing to follow its own protocol to get consent to take a patient's DNA. Stuart Brown, 57, complained his genetic data was taken for a research ...