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Nicholas DeHart was 8 years old when he decided to join his school’s band. He chose the clarinet, a wind instrument.
Stanford Fertility and Reproductive Health Services helps couple overcome roadblocks to pregnancy.
Martin Alvarez’s case demonstrates why Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford has the best three-year patient survival rate in the U.S.
Cate went from a broken leg to breaking records as a high school track star in a little over a year.
Stanford fetal heart, heart surgery and CVICU teams come together to treat baby with uncommon heart defect.
Stanford Children’s heart doctors perform unifocalization to repair Hayden’s toF with pulmonary atresia and MAPCAs.
A core team of caregivers helped Scott Garman overcome injuries and achieve his dream of becoming a D1 diver.
Om, who was born very early, faced death and survived. Doctors don’t always know why one extremely premature baby makes it while another does not. But his parents know why Om survived.
Stanford doctors provided specialized heart and ENT follow-up care for preschooler.
Novel Interventions in Children’s Healthcare (NICH) Program supports families of babies with chronic health needs.
Organ Donor Awareness Day with SF Giants.
Ever since Iliana had a fetal surgery, she has been defying the odds that often accompany her serious form of spina bifida.
Leslie spent 40+ years as a nurse after receiving inspirational care from a nurse when she was a teen.
Multispecialty clinical teams work together to save micropreemie.
Marlee, her parents, and Stanford doctors teamed up to fight stage 4 rhabdomyosarcoma.
Floating kidney resolved with minimally-invasive nephropexy surgery.
The craniosynostosis team is made up of multiple pediatric specialists including neurosurgeons and plastic surgeons.
Felix is the first infant to receive a live donor liver transplant that was removed laparoscopically from an adult donor on the West Coast.
Dr. Molly Meadows, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, offers advice on this common injury.
Additional emergency care by Stanford ophthalmologists provide peace of mind for East Bay parents.
Our Celiac Disease Program offers outreach activities and programs as a network of support and empathy for a child with this autoimmune disease.
Pediatric Disease Center provides family with wrap-around care.
At Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, a team of neonatologists are tackling health equity—making sure every patient has the same opportunity to be healthy—especially when it comes to kangaroo care (holding your baby with your skin touching).
Children with celiac disease often worry about being left out of social situations that include food, so learning self advocacy is important.
Two young boys got more than just a new kidney from the Pediatric Transplant Center—they got a friend for life.
Parents met with the liver transplant team and a month later she had transplant surgery.
Child Life program uses dogs to help children cope with scary medical procedures.
Family finds patient-centered care at Stanford for toddler son with Down syndrome.
Smallest baby at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health to have heart stent placed for tetralogy of Fallot.
After powering through elbow pain due to osteochondritis dissecans, Jaiden got help from our experts.
ENT specialist Jocelyn Kohn, MD, discusses laryngomalacia.
Branden Dever, SCH kidney transplant patient will ride atop the Donate Life float at the upcoming Rose Bowl parade honoring organ donors.
As a nurse for 33 years, Rina Yap, RN, BSN, was accustomed to all types of medical emergencies. But when she was called on to provide CPR to a colleague having a sudden cardiac arrest on the job, it was a new experience.
COVID-19 is daunting for all parents, but even more so for parents of children with a heart condition.
After tearing his meniscus during a basketball game, Branden turned to the sports medicine experts at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health.
Patient partners with Stanford physician to deliver successfully after previous NH diagnosis.
More local families sought help feeding their loved ones during the pandemic than ever before, and those numbers are not showing signs of slowing.
Orthopedic surgeon Charles Chan discusses how your child can safely return to sports this summer.
Family of teen was told she couldn’t be saved, but doctors at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health offered solutions.
Celiac disease is a chronic condition, so selecting the right health care team is an important step.
Every child has a tummy ache now and then. When should you refer your child to a gastroenterologist?
Christi Arnerich, an ENT specialist, answers a parent’s question regarding elective surgery during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Doctors discuss how to safely return to sports and caution teen athletes to go slowly to avoid overuse injuries.
Specialized teams serve as lifeline for parents of children with medically complex needs.
Baby born with a very rare condition received expert care culminating with a heart transplant from one of the best heart teams in the country.
A multidisciplinary approach pins down the best care for a complex, rare heart condition.
Tara and Dave Dollinger recently donated $2.4 million to assist the efforts of Jennifer Frankovich, MD, MS and collaborating scientists.
Cali was born with gastroschisis, a birth defect where her intestines grew outside her body.
About 150 ERCP procedures a year are performed at LPCH, about 10% in infants.
Rose was born a boy, but she’s always felt like a girl.
Technology enables communication between two advanced devices.
A spirit of cooperation drives care and research at Packard Children’s.
Stanford Medicine Children’s brings team-based care and new treatments to patients with sickle cell disease.
Two days a week, Stanford Medicine Children’s patients with scoliosis—most of whom are teen girls—are treated by all-women team of doctors and nurses.
Critical Care Transport Expanded to East Bay
Sports medicine experts at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health are working with youth teams and athletes to help them safely return to practice during the pandemic.
Her love for nursing, helped Anne Jackson to reach 50 years as a nurse at Stanford Medicine.
Sports medicine experts helped Thomas recover from osteochondritis dissecans and return to basketball.
Advice on how to keep your children safe if they return to playing sports during the pandemic.
Due to COVID-19 extra protocols were taken in the operating room, including N-95 masks and extra PPE.
These tips will help kids get back on the healthy sleep schedule they may have lost during the pandemic.
These tips will help young athletes transition back to sports safely.
On March 7, 2020, most of the U.S. population will move their clocks forward one hour, which means losing one hour of sleep. This adjustment can be difficult for kids’ sleep schedules.
Ring in 2017 with healthy New Years Resolutions that the whole family can do together. Tips about healthy eating habits and how to keep them all year long from our Pediatric Weight Control program which is now enrolling patients for January.
The mentoring program provides new graduate nurses with the support they need to navigate their first year and practice their leadership skills.
Doctors diagnose and repair sunken chest using Nuss procedure with 3-D imaging and ESP block for pain, minimizing exposure to radiation and recovery time.
Rider is running and playing after surgery and bracing to treat his clubfoot.
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital saves limb of teen with complex orthopedic surgery and microvascular surgery with skin, bone and vein grafts.
Mathias had bilateral cleft lip and palate when both sides of his lip from his mouth to his nose were open along with the roof of his mouth or palate.
There’s a little superhero in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
The Stanford Medicine Children’s Health network continues to grow with our newest addition, Town and Country Pediatrics, located in San Francisco and Mill Valley.
Here are a few helpful reminders to keep the younger set feeling fine whether they are on a road trip or 30,000 feet in the air.
Selecting an in vitro fertilization (IVF) program to assist in family building can be a stressful decision.
Four teams of young wheelchair basketball players took to the court at Stanford’s Arrillaga Family Recreation Center last month.
Seven-year-old Ikkei Takeuchi likes to say he has two birthdays, the day in April when… Read more »
Jagdip Powar, MD, an obstetrician for the Stanford Medicine Children’s Health network, shares his expertise on the dos and don’ts of traveling while pregnant.
Although only some children and families are publicly insured, all children are dependent on Medicaid funding, Christopher Dawes, president and CEO of Packard Children’s, writes in a recent Huffington Post op-ed.
It is important to know when and where to go when a sudden illness or injury occurs. When in doubt, dial 911.
One mother shares why the palliative care program has become a staple in her whole family’s care plan.
Graduate students from the Institute of Design at Stanford joined forces with the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital expansion team to explore ways to integrate artwork for the expanding pediatric and obstetric hospital campus.
Tips from one of our orthopedists, Christine Boyd, MD of how to stay safe while having fun on the slopes.
Giving birth to her first child was a surreal experience for Tawny Aye — and not the way it is for most mothers.
In medicine we often refer to the “natural history of disease”— the normal course that a disease takes in an individual if no treatment occurs. In the case of congenital heart disease, the “natural history” was often death or, at best, survival with significant limitations. Fortunately, that history has changed.
Infectious disease experts Yvonne Maldonado, MD, and Desiree LaBeaud, MD, MS, discuss the mosquito-borne infection.
Young, athletic girls like Aminah Carter, 8, are being treated for sports injuries typically associated with adults and professional athletes.
Menlo Park-based photographer and retired neonatologist, Barry Fleisher is continuing to document the construction progress for the new hospital.
Most of us will make a New Year’s resolution – maybe to lose weight, quit smoking or drink less – but only one in 10 of us will achieve our goal. This story is about a group of colleagues at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health who worked more than year to eat right and improve their health.
Our Pediatric Advocacy Program, along with some passionate community partners, helped feed hungry children and families over the winter break.
What should have been one of their family’s happiest moments quickly turned somber as they feared the seriousness of Wyatt’s condition. The dermatology team suspected it could be a skin disease, but they couldn’t know for sure. Wyatt needed to be transferred to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
Recently, the Loh family, originally from the Bay Area, was in town for their annual visit from Shanghai to check in with son Elliot’s care team. They reflected on the experience of traveling across the world to give their son the best treatment possible.
Doctors and nurses at our Bass Childhood Cancer Center practice their resuscitation skills several times a year, thanks to a new, hospital-wide, cutting-edge program that provides lifesaving training.
We’re one step closer to opening the nation’s most technologically advanced, family-friendly and environmentally sustainable hospital for infants, children and expectant mothers.
Stanford clinicians collaborate with the community and how you can help this holiday season.
Using the Thanksgiving holiday as a platform to build healthy meals.
The kick-off of the 2015-2016 flu season is upon us. To head influenza off at the pass and protect your children, it’s time to put flu protection on your to-do list, and Stanford Medicine Children’s Health is here to help.
We know Halloween is a special time for kids to dress up as their favorite super hero, princess or scary zombie while getting their hands on those coveted goodies. But with all of the excitement that comes with this festive time of year, it’s important to be aware of how to keep kids safe.
While parents work hard in developing healthy eating habits in their children and educating them to make informed choices about food, there comes one night in which society encourages a total reversal of all parental efforts and messages.
Thanks to a collaboration with the Omar’s Dream Foundation, youth patients at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford don’t have to sacrifice their education while they undergo treatment.
On warm fall days in California, families may leave windows open to cool off. here are some tips to keep kids safe and prevent accidents.
Top-ranked group in Mountain View is now a part of one of the most comprehensive and sought-after health-care brands in America.
The interpreter facilitates communication involving vital details of a patient’s care and helps navigate very complex conversations in our hospital’s often-complicated medical cases.
The Wang family is truly one in a million.
(This blog first appeared online in U.S. News & World Report.) Two of our biggest assets in the care of premature babies are decidedly low-tech: the baby’s parents.
Whether your child is entering kindergarten or heading off to high school, the beginning of the school year is a good time to schedule your child’s annual physical.
“When something like this happens, we’re prepared,” said Carlos Esquivel, MD. “It really shows the depth of the institution and our transplant programs.”
Pediatric urologist William Kennedy, MD, is a leader in expanding access to high-quality care through telehealth.
Vanessa Applegate was not expecting twins. The very day she discovered her one baby was in fact, one of two growing in-utero, she was admitted into Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
On Monday, July 20, 50 kids boarded a bus at St. Bede’s Episcopal Church in Menlo Park. The occasion? To spend an entire week up north, 100 miles away, at St. Dorothy’s Rest in Camp Meeker, Calif.
On July 8, the San Francisco Giants held their 18th Annual Organ Donor Awareness Day (now known as Donate Life Day).
Our new Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford expansion incorporates best practices for saving water and other natural resources, including 38 percent less water usage than in a comparable hospital. Recycled water sources will save as much as 800,000 gallons of water per year.
Seeing yellow? Here’s what you need to know about identifying and treating jaundice in your newborn.
On June 5, the Pacific Art League in downtown Palo Alto was buzzing with excitement as some talented young photographers displayed their works of art.
More than 35 patients and their families turned out for Stanford Medicine Children’s Health’s 1st Annual Craniofacial Team Picnic on June 6 to connect with one another in an enjoyable and supportive environment.
Patients at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital experience: An Evening at the Oasis
Freckles are a phenomenon that occurs when genetically predisposed people (often those with fair skin, red hair, and light eyes) are exposed to UV light over time, according to Joyce Teng, MD, director of pediatric dermatology for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
Our implantable cardioverter defibrillator team provides lifesaving support for young people like Reina Villarreal, who suffers from an abnormal heart rhythm.
Learning to cope when left alone with twins for first time
Pam Simon, certified pediatric nurse practitioner and director of the program, explains how this unique program is going to make a big difference for patients.
Multiples attract attention, there’s no getting around it. People approach you in public, sometimes just to look at your babies and say “Aw,” sometimes to tell you about twins they know, sometimes to tell you they are a twin! Amy Letter shares more in part two of her series on having multiples.
A Salinas teen faced a heart defect that could lead to sudden death, so our Heart Center leads the way in fixing a defect more common that most doctors realize.
Hearing your baby’s heartbeat for the first time is amazing. Hearing the second heartbeat is harder to describe.
Jordan Ervin, 6, had 26 areas of blood flow blockage from his heart to his lungs. Surgeon Frank Hanley repaired all of the blockages in one marathon surgery.
Baby Jackson Lane’s heart problems were “about as dramatic as you can get.” Famed surgeon Dr. Frank Hanley and his team stepped in to save Jackson’s life. “We are just so lucky that we found Dr. Hanley and that our son fought for his life,” said mom Elyse.
We all want to live a happy, less-stressful and healthy life; and to achieve this, we strive to make positive lifestyle changes to our routines. Here are some tips for parents to ensure that their healthier lifestyle goals are not negatively impacting their children.
Doctors at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Stanford Medicine Children’s Health have proven that cochlear implants in deaf children with developmental delay can help them from falling further behind their peers.
On Sunday, February 8, dozens of patient families with children that have congenital heart disease gathered to celebrate lives saved and CHD Awareness Week (2/7/15 – 2/14/15).
Recently, writer Stephanie Booth with Cafe Mom’s The Stir discussed with our chief of adolescent medicine, Neville Golden, MD, tips on when to transition a child from pediatric to adolescent care.
Integrating mindfulness into regular curriculum in the Ravenswood City School District
Less than one month after reading about “stealth surgery” online, Jennifer traveled cross-country for an innovative surgery that helped her turn the corner from a painful past toward a brighter future.
Students at Stanford’s d.school collaborate with neonatologist William Rhine, MD, to look at new elements of design in the NICU environment.
ABC 7’s Lilian Kim reports on heart transplant recipient Lizzie Johnson, 14, and her family, about receiving the ultimate gift for Christmas this year, a new heart and a second chance at life.
From the first King Size KitKat bar that finds its way into a “lucky” trick-or-treater’s stash, to the “generous” servings of turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie that are dished up at Thanksgiving feasts, I have one major learning objective for my kids: size matters. We can enjoy absolutely any food, as long as it’s consumed in moderation.
Top-ranked group group in Los Gatos, Calif., is now a part of one of the most comprehensive and sought-after health-care brands in America
When a child’s heart is not making the right sounds, it can make parents very nervous. Alaina Kipps, MD, pediatric cardiologist in our Heart Center, explains that it’s actually very common and usually not as scary as you would think.
As the holiday season approaches, my excitement about the upcoming festivities is sometimes mixed with a little uncertainty. Halloween, Diwali, Thanksgiving, Hanukah and Christmas: No matter which of these holidays you celebrate, they usually involve a whole lot of eating — and an endless stream of treats.
Thanks to a new Pediatric Interventional Radiology program at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, the first of its kind in the Bay Area, kids can often forgo anesthesia and, in some cases, surgery for many of their treatments.
Care providers from Stanford Medicine Children’s Health and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford have partnered with an innovative medical-legal partnership to impact the lives of over 3000 families.
California’s high-level, high-volume facilities have the lowest mortality rates when it comes to treating premature infants with necrotizing enterocolitis, a dangerous intestinal disease. However, the number of these centers is decreasing.
Together, we are creating the ultimate patient, staff, and provider environment so we can help our patients get back to “jumping off of coffee tables.”
In case of an emergency or crisis, we’ve developed an innovative electronic medical records tool to make patient transfers as safe as possible.
A San Jose teen and wrestling champ has regained full function after a complex surgery on his leg and back.
Siblings Dominic and Julia Faisca had a rare kidney disease that stunted their growth. Thanks to our top-ranked transplant teams, the kids are now back home in Hawaii and “growing like weeds,” according to their doctor.
Christy Sillman is one of the many adult survivors needing lifelong, specialized treatment for her heart. Sillman brings special insights to her work as the nurse coordinator for the Adult Congenital Heart Program at Stanford.
Groundbreaking food allergy research at Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford has received a major boost through the creation of a challenge grant by Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos. Severe food allergies are a growing epidemic, with rates having doubled in the last decade. One out of every 13 children is affected, and over 30 percent are thought to have allergies to more than one food.
With the days of summer vacation soon coming to an end, parents are getting in gear to send their kids back to school. Along with stocking up on school supplies and buying new clothes, it’s also a good time to think about their health needs.
On July 30, the San Francisco Giants held their 17th Annual Organ Donor Awareness Day. Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford has been a part of this event for several years. It’s an opportunity for community to celebrate the lives that have been saved through organ donation
This week, we are celebrating Lucile Salter Packard, our hospital’s founder and visionary, in honor of what would have been her 100th birthday. Her dream was simple: to nurture both the body and soul of every child.
Nearly 4 million sports-related concussions occur in the U.S. each year and, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the majority of these cases affect young people. Concussions can have devastating consequences, including impaired cognitive function and other long-term neurological effects.
A gastroenterologist diagnosed teen with a swallowing disorder in which tight muscle fibers in the lower esophagus prevent food and liquids from passing
Thanks to a partnership between HP and DreamWorks Animation, pediatric patients had a chance to design artwork that now hangs in HP’s Palo Alto facility.
Cathy Siciliano’s son William was born at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford in 2012. He… Read more »
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