MedscapeUnivadisEnglish EditionMedscapeUnivadisXPlease confirm that you would like to log out of Medscape.If you log out, you will be required to enter your username and password the next time you visit.>Washington, DC, has approved legislation that allows minors as young as 11 to consent to vaccination without their parents' knowledge — if a physician determines the child is capable of giving informed consent.It also prohibits insurers from sending an explanation of benefits to the parents, and it requires a physician to submit the immunization record directly to the minor's school "if...…MedscapeUnivadisEnglish EditionMedscapeUnivadisXPlease confirm that you would like to log out of Medscape.If you log out, you will be required to enter your username and password the next time you visit.>Washington, DC, has approved legislation that allows minors as young as 11 to consent to vaccination without their parents' knowledge — if a physician determines the child is capable of giving informed consent.It also prohibits insurers from sending an explanation of benefits to the parents, and it requires a physician to submit the immunization record directly to the minor's school "if...WW…

What has compelled so many thousands of American Indians, Alaskan Natives and Native Hawaiians to serve in the U.S. military? It’s a question the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian aims to answer with a new book and exhibition devoted to the subject, launching today, November 11, Veteran’s Day.Much of what they document in —a 240-page book that synthesizes established and novel scholarship—may come as a surprise to non-Natives. “The history of Native American service has always been viewed in a reductionist way by the military and by non-Native American society,” write...…What has compelled so many thousands of American Indians, Alaskan Natives and Native Hawaiians to serve in the U.S. military? It’s a question the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian aims to answer with a new book and exhibition devoted to the subject, launching today, November 11, Veteran’s Day.Much of what they document in —a 240-page book that synthesizes established and novel scholarship—may come as a surprise to non-Natives. “The history of Native American service has always been viewed in a reductionist way by the military and by non-Native American society,” write...WW…