Consent form gobbledygook: Are medical research subjects adequately informed?

June 21, 2010

When a person signs up to participate in medical research, he or she is given a form to sign that is supposed to state the goal of the study as well as all the known possible risks of the drug or procedure being tested. But a new report by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Columbia University concludes informed consent forms are often too long and complicated — full of legalese and technical gobbledygook — for many people to understand. (Natural News)