In any language, the NYPD wants permission to search your home. Three years after the NYPD starting using English and Spanish “consent to search” forms, it has added forms in five other languages: ...

Informed consent documents explain to potential participants the information that a reasonable person would want to have in order to make an informed decision about whether to participate. Using this ...

New guidelines emphasize the need for clarity in consent agreements for clinical trials and aim to broaden participation in medical research.

Ethicists have suggested that written consent forms encourage participants in phase 1 cancer trials to expect benefit from the experimental agent and to overlook serious risks. Of 272 forms, 268 ...

(Reuters Health) - Cancer patients usually get written consent forms to sign before radiation that are supposed to clearly spell out the treatment risks, but a new U.S. study suggests these forms are ...