On April 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), Center for Clinical Standards and Quality/Quality, Safety & ...

Lawmakers want to require informed patient consent for some medical procedures. A bill moving through the legislature would ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality teamed up with the Joint Commission and Abt Associates to offer free online courses for hospital leaders and others to learn how to improve the patient ...

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In recent years, Michigan has been home to two of the largest sexual abuse scandals involving doctors in history: the sexual abuse committed by Larry Nassar while employed by Michigan State University ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A new batch of states are looking to legislate the level of informed consent when it comes to medical students performing pelvic exams for educational purposes on unconscious patients ...

The case of Henrietta Lacks became a cause célèbre when it was revealed that the doctors treating her for cancer at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore more than 70 years ago harvested some of her cervical ...

Predicting protocol completion in randomized clinical trials (RCTs): The occurrence of adverse events in the first treatment cycle. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting I ...

A physician providing assisted reproductive technologies, at least twenty-four hours before the physician obtains a signed contract for services, must provide patients with the following information ...

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 ...