The US Department of Health and Human Services issued new guidance on Monday clarifying that hospitals must obtain written consent for sensitive exams, such as pelvic, breast or prostate exams ...

Hospitals Must Get Written Patient Consent for Pelvic Exams, H.H.S. Says In a letter to teaching hospitals, the federal health agency said that institutions could lose Medicare funding if they ...

The Supreme Court declined Thursday to review a Montana law that requires people under 18 to seek parental consent before ...

The US Supreme Court turned away a new effort to restrict abortion, declining to hear arguments that parents have a ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to review a blocked Montana law that would require physicians to obtain a parent's ...

The plaintiffs allege the center allowed Facebook and other third parties to access sensitive patient information through the ...

Montana's attorney general argues the federal constitution gives parents the right to make medical decisions for their ...

While patients are entitled to video documentation of their treatment, with consent, there is a growing trend of filming in hospital ...

The Supreme Court rejected Montana’s bid to revive a parental consent law for minors seeking abortion for now.