A COVID-19 vaccine for children under age 12 is not yet authorized for emergency use in the United States, but Pfizer-BioNTech announced on Sept. 20 that it is getting close to submitting its vaccine ...

Obtaining the informed consent of a potential human subject for participation in any research (whether an experiment, survey, interview, or demonstration) is a federally mandated safeguard for ...

Potential research subjects must be accurately informed of what a project involves, and given the opportunity to decide of their own free will whether or not to participate. This process may be brief ...

Everyone deserves to have a say in their own care regardless of age or perceived ability; this is where assent comes in. Assent-based procedures, most common in autism and intellectual and ...

Introduction: Authoritative research guidelines from Europe, USA and Australia suggest that incompetent children ought to assent, when unable to consent. What assent means here is both unclear and ...

The primary purpose of informed consent is to protect the prospective human subject. Informed consent provides the individual with the pertinent information regarding the research in which s/he is ...