The Florida Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine recently released six new informed consent forms that will now be required for transgender youth and adults to sign in the next six months to ...

Informed consent is an agreement between the investigators and the research participants. A signed informed consent form notifies potential research participants of their obligations and rights, and ...

There has been an increased focus over the past couple of years on patient rights, resulting in a renewed emphasis on informed consent by healthcare regulators, such as The Joint Commission. This ...

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Until the development in 1980 by William Norwood of a staged palliative surgical procedure for hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HPLHS), there was no treatment for that condition. With medical ...

Informed consent has been defined as "an individual's autonomous authorization of a medical intervention or of participation in research". [1] In professional and legal regulations it is widely ...

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, ...