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Informed Consent
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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Brownback Introduces Ultrasound Requirement Bill
Via TPM Election Central:Presidential hopeful Sam Brownback introduced the Ultrasound Informed Consent Act, which would require doctors to perform an ultrasound on women seeking abortions.According to Brownback in his office's…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Jeremy Blumenthal on Social Science Research and Abortion “Informed Consent” Statutes
Jeremy A. Blumenthal (Syracuse) has posted Abortion, Persuasion, and Emotion: Implications of Social Science Research on Emotion for Reading Casey on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Although abortion jurisprudence underCasey…
Legal Profession Blog
Duty Of Candor
The New Jersey Supreme Court recently decided a significant medical malpractice case involving the applicable standard of care, the "extent to which medical emergencies fall outside the doctrine of informed…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Malcolm de Roubaix on South African Termination of Pregnancy Act
NOTE: Save for when article is published in PUBMED and indicate whether it is fee-only.Malcolm de Roubaix, an anesthesiologist and a Fellow at the Centre for Applied Ethics, Department of…
Drug & Device Law
Informed Consent and FDA Regulatory Status – Oil and Water Still Don’t Mix
By Bexis
The recent law review article, Johns, “Informed Consent: Requiring Doctors To Disclose Off-Label Prescriptions & Conflicts Of Interest,” 58 Hastings L.J. 967 (May, 2007), came to our attention because it…
Med Law Blog
CMS Issues Revisions to Hospital Guidelines for Informed Consent
CMS has issued interpretive guidelines regarding informed consent relating to the conditions of participation requirements for patient rights, informed consent for surgical services, and the appropriate contents of medical records. The…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Russian Doctors Charged With Doing Glaxo Vaccine Trial Without Consent
By joetort
Article in the Wall Street Journal -- Doctors Charged Over Trials Of Glaxo Vaccine in Russia, by the Associated Press. Here's an excerpt:Prosecutors charged three Russian doctors with endangering people's…
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
“Informed Consent” and Legal Malpractice
Arnoff & Jacobs write in the 3/2/07 NYLJ about "informed Consent and Legal Malpractice" "Even most laypersons know what informed consent is in the context of dental and medical practice.…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
NJ Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Abortion Med Mal Case That Raises Forced Speech Issue
The Star Ledger reports:The [New Jersey] Supreme Court heard arguments today on whether doctors should be required tell a pregnant woman seeking an abortion that the procedure would kill a…
Drug & Device Law
Bone Screws and Informed Consent
By Bexis
As readers of this blog know, your two cohosts met more than a decade ago, when they were toiling side by side in the Orthopedic Bone Screws wars. We hope…