Additionally, the patient must be informed of feasible alternative therapies. The two legal claims are distinct, and a physician can be sued for malpractice, a type of negligence, for failing to ...

Navin is professor and chair of philosophy at Oakland University. Ross is dean’s professor and chair of the Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics and director of the Paul M Schyve MD Center ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Artificial intelligence (AI) now enables researchers to analyze vast amounts of clinical ...

There is a sea change in America’s framework for conducting experiments on humans. The biggest surprise is that you probably know little to nothing about it. It has to do with a provision tucked into ...

When the government pulls a public health ad campaign, it usually raises more questions than it answers. And when the government's official happens to be an attorney with a controversial stance on ...

A consultant midwife at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) has become the first midwife within the organisation to be ...

Michigan currently has no state law preventing medical students from performing pelvic exams on anesthetized patients without their consent. Surveys indicate that nonconsensual exams are common for ...

When you’re under anesthesia, you shouldn’t have to worry that a medical student will perform a pelvic exam without your consent. But in Michigan, no state law forbids a medical student to perform ...