U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a news briefing in the James S. Brady Press ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - New laws took effect in Alabama at the start of the month and last session’s Senate Bill 101 is among them. One raised the medical age of consent from age 14 to 16, which ...

A student and parent visit the school clinic at Rawlinson Middle School during the first day of school on Aug. 11, 2025. Credit: Amber Esparza / San Antonio Report With the 2025-26 school year well ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - Senate Bill 12, known as the Parent’s Bill of Rights, is proving to be difficult for school districts to get finalized before their deadline. There are many areas of school ...

MADISON — Wisconsin hospitals will now be required to obtain explicit written consent before allowing medical students to perform a pelvic exam on a patient who is unconscious or under anesthesia.

Madison Patrick is a sociology and public health major and a 2024-25 Hackworth Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Despite the invaluable contribution of medical ...

A bill to raise the age at which people can make their own medical decisions from 14 to 16 is headed to Gov. Kay Ivey’s desk for signature. It was approved by the Alabama Senate on Wednesday. Under ...

A new study by researchers from Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health and Vanderbilt University Medical Center found parental support for adolescent medical consent varied significantly ...

Ethical medical care of pregnant women in Australia should include the real provision of information regarding the risks and benefits of vaginal birth. Routinely obtaining consent for the different ...

Unconsented episiotomies and other procedures during labour are commonly reported by women in several countries, and often highlighted in birth activism. Yet, forced caesarean sections aside, the ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposed fiscal year 2026 budget would let providers go back to requiring patients to agree to pay for care in advance of receiving treatment. It would also clarify that ...