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Informed Consent
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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Orentlicher on Abortion and Compelled Physician Speech
By John Kang
David Orentlicher, Indiana University, has uploaded to SSRN Abortion and Compelled Physician Speech. The abstract reads: As states increasingly impose informed consent mandates on abortion providers, the required disclosures bring two well-established…
Health Industry Washington Watch
FDA Seeks Comments to Updated Guidance on Informed Consent in Clinical Trials
By Jennifer Pike, Vicki Tankle
Earlier this summer, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a draft 42-page "Informed Consent Information Sheet" that provides guidance for institutional review boards (IRBs), clinical investigators, and clinical trial…
Pennsylvania Law Monitor
Can Informed Consent be a Defense in Medical Malpractice Cases?
Before a doctor performs any type of medical procedure, they must obtain the patient's "informed consent" to do so. In general, this means that the patient must be provided with…
Focus on Regulation
FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Informed Consent Regulations
On July 15, 2014, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) announced a new Draft Guidance, Informed Consent Information Sheet: Guidance for IRBs, Clinical Investigators, and Sponsors.
The Faculty Lounge
How an IRB Could Have Legitimately Approved the Facebook Experiment—and Why that May Be a Good Thing
Image courtesy Flickr By now, most of you have probably heard—perhaps via your Facebook feed itself—that for one week in January of 2012, Facebook altered the algorithms it uses to…
Notice of Appeal
Wash. S. Ct.: Medical Misdiagnosis Claims Separate and Distinct from Informed Consent Claims
By Sook Kim In Gomez v. Sauerwein, the Washington Supreme Court held that a medical negligence claim for misdiagnosis and a failure to obtain informed consent claim are mutually exclusive.…
Health Law Prof Blog
Published This Week
Thaddeus Mason Pope and Melinda Hexum, Legal Briefing: Informed Consent in the Clinical Context, 25 J. of Clinical Ethics 1 (2014).Charlotte A. Moser, Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, and Robert L. Schwartz,…
TortsProf Blog
JOTWELL Torts: Chamallas on Sheley on Informed Consent
At JOTWELL, Martha Chamallas (Ohio State) reviews Erin Sheley's (GW) Rethinking Injury: The Case of Informed Consent.--CJR
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Backstory of Abortion Informed Consent Laws
By Tracy Thomas
I have just published Back to the Future of Regulating Abortion in the First Term, 29 Wisconsin J. Law, Gender & Soc'y 47 (2014). In this work, I draw on original…
Drug & Device Law
Breaking News – Maryland High Court Holds FDA Regulatory Status Cannot Support Informed Consent Claim
By Bexis
We’ve blogged several times about the nearly unanimously accepted proposition that FDA regulatory status – that is, the bare fact that a drug or medical device is used off-label –…