An April 2026 lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleges two healthcare organizations used ambient AI-based tools to record and transmit audio ...

As a primary care physician, a significant part of my job is helping patients better understand and deal with the public health issues that affect our society—whether it’s the dangers of smoking ...

Informed consent represents one of the most important ethical aspects of clinical treatments and scientific research involving humans. This article will discuss the key elements of informed consent ...

Janet Blanquies, 65, wishes her mother — or maybe a teacher — had told her she had a right to say no if she didn’t want to have sex. Instead, when her mother sat then-10-year-old Blanquies down with ...

Throughout the United States of America, individual states and territories establish the age of consent through statutes or common law, while federal statutes play a role in safeguarding minors ...

We've heard it a million times. People say they don't explicitly ask for consent before sex because it's awkward, it kills the mood, it feels weird. But in reality, asking for consent is pretty easy, ...

In 1978, Greta Hibbard was twenty-two and living in rural Oregon. She had a two-year-old daughter, a minimum-wage job, and an unemployed husband. She was, she would later say, “living on peanut butter ...