Two commentaries respond to a case about apnea testing to confirm death by neurologic criteria.

Hospital ethics committees originated with concerns about legal liability, but today they educate, develop and implement policies, and review cases.

Implementing the six-step Patient- and Family-Centered Care Methodology and Practice would improve experiences and outcomes while decreasing costs.

Key unmet technological needs pertain to instrument size and adaptability secondary to the smaller pediatric robotic surgery market. 

Research in the PED and PICU is essential to medical understanding of the efficacy of emergency interventions. Researchers must minimize the additional stress that consent and participation in research entail for pediatric patients and their families.

Quality control testing is ethically and clinically key to increasing transparency in excipient supply chains.

Dr Amy B. Cadwallader joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Kavitha Nallathambi: “How Should Regulators and Manufacturers Prevent Avoidable Deaths of Children From Contaminated Cough Syrup?”

Ethical and legal questions arise when public health research that provides a benefit to society at large can potentially cause harm to the subjects.