A US biotechnology company has reached a settlement with the family of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used for groundbreaking medical research without her consent.

Today marks the first day of Queensland's new sexual consent laws. The changes include the affirmative consent model, along with the criminalisation of stealthing as part of a major overhaul to ...

A new dataset captures more than 170 years of US state laws governing minors' legal capacity to independently consent to sexual health services without the involvement of their parent or guardian.

“The only way we're going to get this change is through laws," Bernier continued. "And so, the current law would basically say age of consent is not a defense. You can't use age of consent as a ...