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NPR: Jehovah's Witness Kid Dies After Refusing Medical Treatment
November 30, 2007
Over his parents’ objections, 14-year-old Dennis Lindberg refused vital blood transfusions that could have saved him because it was against his faith as a Jehovah’s Witness.
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Seattle Times: Judge: Teen can reject treatment on religious grounds
November 28, 2007
Witness from Mount Vernon, Lindberg has religious objections to receiving blood. Doctors say he needs transfusions to survive treatment for leukemia. Doctors at Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center in Seattle diagnosed him Nov. 6 and began giving him chemotherapy.
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Children's Hospitals Today: The Evolving Ethics of Modern Medicine
October 17, 2007
Ethical decision making is especially difficult in pediatrics because so often children must depend on adults — parents, physicians, politicians — to make decisions on their behalf in their best interests.
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Seattle Magazine — A Delicate Balance
September 1, 2007
Helping families and individuals make life-altering decisions within a confusing array of medical choices is the territory of medical bioethicists…doing what’s “best” is seldom straightforward and is often a path fraught with ethical dilemmas.
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Seattle Times — Seeking less-bitter ways to end conflicts on kids' medical care
July 13, 2007
What happens when such intense, life-and-death disagreements fester between parents and doctors? Can the two sides ever come together, or must courts always intervene?
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Seattle PI — Should children have a say in own medical care?
July 8, 2007
Experts in pediatric bioethics fiercely debate how much control children should have over their own medical care, especially when it involves experimental treatments or research.
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The Daily of the Universtity of WA — Bioethics conference tackles tough medical decisions
May 17, 2007
She doesn’t have a last name. They call her “Ashley X” or even “Pillow Angel.” Yesterday, though, people from around the nation visited the UW because of this young girl, to discuss the issue of limiting growth in children with severe disabilities.
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CNN - Ethicist in Ashley case answers questions
January 11, 2007
Dr. Doug Diekema is interviewed on CNN about the growth attenuation case labeled the “Ashley Treatment”.
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Seattle Times - More parents resisting vaccines for kids
July 16, 2006
Pediatricians, public-health officials and researchers wrestled with how to best reach parents who resist giving their children vaccines, how to counter irrational fears, whether doctors should “fire” vaccine-resister parents, and whether mandatory vaccination for school attendance should be scrapped.
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Seattle PI - Parents' fears over vaccinating kids sets ethics debate
July 15, 2006
Ethical issues related to vaccination are a topic at a conference on pediatric bioethics, hosted through today by Children’s. Today’s discussion focuses on parents who worry about and some who ultimately refuse vaccinations for their children.
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KPLU - Bioethics Conference Discussed
July 14, 2006
Dr. Doug Diekema discussed Children’s Bioethics Conference Current Controversies: Ethical Issues Related to Vaccination of Children on KPLU radio.
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Nation's First Pediatric Bioethics Center Names Director
April 10, 2006
Children’s Hospital in Seattle Selects Dr. Benjamin Wilfond as Director of the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics.
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Children's Hospitals Today: Establishing a Permanent Forum for Pediatric Bioethics
January 6, 2006
Seeing the need to create a permanent forum for national debate on the ethical issues pediatric providers and researchers face each day, Seattle Children’s established the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics.
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Bioethics Center to Research Drug Testing on Children
July 26, 2005
When it comes to medicating children, doctors often have to resort to guesswork. That’s because there’s not a lot of research in this area. A national summit being held in Seattle is trying to change that.
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