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Informed Consent
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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Trial Commencing in Coerced C-Section Case
RH Reality Check (Nov. 4, 2015): Coerced C-Sections: The Latest Reach of Fetus First Laws, by Jessica Mason Pieklo:Michelle Mitchell is suing her doctor for assault and battery alleging that…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
New Case On Informed Consent When Representing Two Or More Family Members
A women set up a trust that made her and her son life beneficiaries with a remainder interest to her son and daughter. However, a dispute arose over the trust…
Media Law Prof Blog
Physicians’ First Amendment Rights and Patients’ Informed Consent
Nadia N. Sawicki, Loyola Chicago School of Law, Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy, is publishing Informed Consent as Compelled Professional Speech: Fictions, Facts, and Open Questions in the…
Inside Privacy
Proposed Rule Would Amend Federal “Common Rule” Requirements
On September 8, 2015, sixteen federal agencies published a long-awaited Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to modernize the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, known as the “Common…
Drug & Device Law
Anything in the New Clinical Trial Rules of Interest to Product Liability? Not Really.
By Bexis
An inter-agency taskforce is proposing a comprehensive overhaul of “Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects” in today’s issue of the Federal Register (comments close on 12/7/2015). See 80…
Drug & Device Law
Law Review Articles That Caught Our Eye
By Bexis
Maybe our motto here at DDLaw should be “we read law review articles so you don’t have to.” Here are a couple of recent ones that looked interesting to us. Tort…
West Australian Medical Negligence Law Blog
UK adopts Rogers + ‘patient driven’ test about risks disclosure for medical treatment
The UK has recently altered its position in relation to the important question of a doctor's obligations to warn their patients concerning risks of treatment. Preceding the decision in Montgomery…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
New Arizona Law Would Require Providers to Tell Patients About Unproven “Abortion Reversal” Process
U.S. News & World Report: Arizona Abortion Law Pushes Boundaries of What Providers Must Tell Patients, by Tierney Sneed:An unprecedented abortion law signed by Arizona's governor this week would require…
TortsProf Blog
PA: Justices Reject Complete Ban of Informed Consent Evidence in Traditional Med Mal Cases
Back in November, I reported that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was deciding whether to become the eighth state to completely ban informed consent evidence from a traditional med mal trial. …
Health Industry Washington Watch
FDA, OHRP Considering Guidance on Use of Electronic Informed Consent In Clinical Investigations
As discussed on our sister blog, Life Sciences Legal Update, the FDA has published a notice soliciting comments on a draft guidance document on the use of electronic media and…