Parents must give consent to an educator to bring their child to a medical appointment unless it’s emergency transport by ambulance under a House-approved bill that cleared the state Senate Thursday.

He told staff at the clinic that he did not want a vaccination, and he did not have a signed parental consent form to receive one ... and the Old North State Medical Society, an organization ...

Advocates say school-based telehealth care reduces absenteeism, ensures students receive routine care, and can even boost ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted to manage private medical ... consent at any point. While you have the option to ask your child to sign a HIPAA release ...

Under Soviet rule, Roma women were subjected to forced sterilisation. Today, they are still facing discrimination in their ...

Schools would be expressly prohibited from using timeouts to place a student in a locked confined space, but under certain emergency situations would be able to use a form of seclusion in a secure ...

Saturday was a day of nationwide demonstrations against policies by the Trump administration. Protests happened in Boston, ...

A few years ago, Psychology Today posted a checklist under the headline “Your Friend Might Be Politically Brainwashed If . . ...

When my daughter was ten and a half months old, she qualified as “wasted,” which UNICEF describes as “the most immediate, visible and life-threatening form ... child-health records, retrain ...

Single parents, grandparents or other guardians crossing borders with minors need to get permission from Child Travel Consent ...

Foster youth are frequently put on psych meds, an Imprint investigation reveals. State agencies are dropping the ball on ...

18 Strictly speaking, one does not need to obtain consent from a woman for her to have a vaginal delivery. Vaginal delivery itself does not necessarily require any medical intervention. It will occur, ...