Pediatrics
Is Improving Health Really the Goal?: A Criticism of the American Academy of Pediatrics Gu...
This past January, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released its first comprehensive guidelines for evaluating a...
Subject: Pediatrics
Abortion, Pediatrics
Denying Fetal Pain in The Second Half of Pregnancy Can Undermine Preterm Babies’ Right to ...
In the last few months, we have seen some trying to oppose abortion laws, arguing that fetuses can feel pain in the firs...
Decision making, Pediatrics
Optimizing Decision-Making in the Gray Zone at Birth
This editorial can be found here in the November 2022 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. A provocative Target A...
End of Life Care, Health Care, Pediatrics
All That Matters
We call them loved ones, family, when life is thriving – intimate, caring. We know them as legal guardians, when death i...
Pediatrics, Social Justice
California Clinics Ask About Childhood Trauma: Schools Should Too
In a public health push, since 2020 California’s ACEs Aware Initiative has screened over 500,000 children&nbs...
Clinical Ethics, Editorial-AJOB, Pediatrics
Fetal Therapies and Clinical Research: Beyond Risk and Benefit
The following is an editorial in the American Journal of Bioethics, March 2022 issue. It can be found here: https://www....
Pediatrics
Legal and Ethical Considerations in Allowing Parental Exemptions From Newborn Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) Screening
Abstract Critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) screening is rapidly becoming the standard of care in the United State...
Publish date:Decision making, Pediatrics, Race
The #MedTwitter War: How a Tweet About Advocacy Pitted One Specialty Against Another
by Erin King-Mullins, MD, FACS, FASCRS I decided to tweet about my daughter’s trip to the ER to highlight dispariti...
COVID-19 pandemic, Ethics, Global Ethics, Pediatrics, Vaccines
Juvenile Justice: Why It Is Ethical to Vaccinate Our Children Now
by Kyle Ferguson, Ph.D., and Arthur Caplan, Ph.D. On May 10, 2021, the F.D.A. authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus...
Children/Adolescents, Ethics, Health Care, Health Disparities, Pediatrics
Umbilical Hernias: Systemic Racism, Dogma, And Pediatric Surgery
by Stephanie Preston, MD In the health professions, we have all been taught that some of the most common, chronic, and d...
Justice, Pediatrics, Public Health
Pox Parties for Grannies? Chickenpox, Exogenous Boosting, and Harmful Injustices
Abstract Some societies tolerate or encourage high levels of chickenpox infection among children to reduce rates of shin...
Publish date:Justice, Pediatrics
Should Extremely Premature Babies Get Ventilators During the COVID-19 Crisis?
Abstract In a crisis, societal needs take precedence over a patient’s best interests. Triage guidelines, however, differ...
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