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Informed Consent
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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Abortion Opponents Push for ‘Heartbeat Bills’
TIME opinion column: The Next Abortion Battleground: Fetal Heartbeats, by Adam Cohen: Anti-abortion groups begin a brazen campaign to make women listen to a heartbeat before they end a pregnancyAbortion…
Drug & Device Law
There They Go Again
By Bexis
A lot of people think that Ronald Reagan won the presidency in 1980 in his first debate when he replied jokingly “there you go again” to then-President Carter’s attempt to portray…
Health Industry Washington Watch
Draft FDA Guidance on Exculpatory Language in Informed Consent
This post was written by Erin Janssen and Areta Kupchyk. The HHS Office for Human Subject Protections (OHRP) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are seeking comments on a…
Mass Tort Defense
FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Informed Consent Language
By Sean Wajert
The FDA has issued draft guidance on the use of "Exculpatory Language in Informed Consent" agreements. The document applies to non-exempt hu
Day On Torts
Kentucky Jury Throws Out Claim of Wrongful Penis Amputatiion
By John Day
Insurance Journal reports that a Kentucky jury has sided with a physician who is alleged to have amputated a portion of his patient's penis without the patient's consent. The article states that…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Federal Judge Enjoins Portions of Texas Abortion Statute
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
Federal District Judge Sam Sparks has enjoined portions of HB 15, an Act “relating to informed consent to an abortion.” H.B. 15, 82nd Leg., Reg. Sess. (Tex. 2011) in his…
West Australian Medical Negligence Law Blog
Another Informed Consent Case fails at trial
Maintaining the sobering record of Plaintiff claims based on informed consent, is a recent South Australian case, Coombes v Katsaros [2011] SADC 93. The claim concerned alleged complex regional pain…
ContractsProf Blog
Contracts Law and the Ethicist
The New York Times Magazine's "The Ethicist" column is occasionally the source of blog fodder. This week, both entires in the column raise potential contracts issue. The Times' Ethicist is now Ariel Kaminer,…
Health Law Prof Blog
United Nations Discussions on Sustainability and Informed Consent
The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) is holding its Nineteenth Session at the U.N headquarters in New York City this week. Although not well reported in the U.S.…
Drug & Device Law
Deformed Consent
By Bexis
We’ve heard about a new plaintiffs’ informed consent theory that’s making the rounds. It’s similar to, if even goofier than, the FDA regulatory status (that is, off-label use) theory that…