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Informed consent is a cornerstone of most other medical therapies and treatments, but according to a 2023 study, it is not the standard approach to gender affirming care in the United States.

Free, prior, and informed consent, or FPIC, reflects Indigenous peoples’ right to give or withhold consent on anything that affects their lands or resources. FPIC is embedded in the U.N.’s ...

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Providing informed consent is a bedrock of ethical medical practice -- and a physician’s failure to provide proper informed consent is grounds for legal action. But, determining what constitutes ...

The concept of “informed consent” emerged from an American tragedy: the U.S. government’s experiment on Black men with syphilis in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1932.

Promoting greater “informed consent” sounds uncontroversial. After all, it is fundamental to ethical medical practice: Patients must understand and agree to any interventions they receive.

So informed consent is a big thing. READ MORE: Paxalisib May Improve Survival in Some With Glioblastoma Also, I think it also helps us tell the patient, “Moving forward with your treatment, after ...