The correct answer to the following question will be "True".
Explanation:
NIH (National Institutes of Health) is the world's largest public funding agency for biomedical research, investing more than $30 billion in taxpayer money to accomplish its mission of improving health, prolonging life, and reducing disease and disability.
By fulfilling this goal, NIH promotes health by encouraging prevention and treatment, contributes to society through increased economic development and efficiency, and extends the knowledge base of bio-medicine by supporting cutting-edge science and nurturing today's and tomorrow's biomedical labor force.
Informed consent is the process or method in which the health care professional or provider need to explains and discloses the proper information to a patient who is competent so the patient or research subject could make a voluntary choice to refuse or accept the treatment is advised to him or her.
According to the NIH, this process should be compulsory and perform regularly rather than a one time event. So an individual is able to make decision on the basis of the pros and cons altogether.
