She said she had not studied the rules' consent requirements.

Secretary Thompson said he wanted to remove the consent requirements because he believed they could delay care.

The Bush proposal would also relax some consent requirements that medical researchers saw as particularly onerous.

Pharmacists say the consent requirement would be impractical in many situations.

But an "informed consent" requirement does not necessarily work.

Also, there is no parental consent requirement in the state.

One provision of the rules, the consent requirement, was particularly troublesome for pharmacists.

The Bush administration proposed to drop the consent requirement while retaining other provisions, often in a revised form.

The Bush administration proposed to drop the consent requirement.

The mandatory consent requirement put patients at risk of not receiving care.