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News tagged with 'Informed Consent'

Who Owns Your Genes?
Posted by Jane Akre
April 22, 2010 3:44 PM

In 1990, members of an Arizona Indian tribe thought they were giving blood samples to study diabetes. The tribe has now won a lawsuit against Arizona State University for failing to adequately inform the donors what their DNA would be used to study.

Lack of Informed Consent Cost Hospital, Doctor $3 Million
Posted by Staff Writer
January 17, 2002 12:00 AM

A New York jury recently returned a $3 million verdict in the case of a former Lake Placid corrections officer who fell victim to medical malpractice. Michael Strack suffered a grand mal seizure in the spring of 1997. After being admitted to St. Peter's Hospital, a CT scan revealed the presence of an arachnoid cyst a

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