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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What is informed birth consent? Here's why it's vital. (Getty Images) Consent in the medical field is vital to ensuring a ...

The lie putting young people at risk is that you can have what you want without the actual relational work required to treat ...

Most parents want their children to grow up with a good understanding of healthy boundaries in relationships. But waiting till the pre-teen "sex talk" to start teaching young people about consent is ...

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 ...

When I grew up most of our conversations around consent focused on the catchphrase "no means no". We now understand that relying on only words to communicate consent is limiting and can have ...

As a culture, consent continues to be a concept that is more complicated than “no means no.” Through its simplest definition, the idea is that an enthusiastic “yes” is the only thing that begets ...

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, ...