Cate went from a broken leg to breaking records as a high school track star in a little over a year.


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.
It started as a simple persistent wet cough, something Eloise (Ellie) McCloskey’s mom, Aubrey, noticed before spring break of second grade, and it quickly escalated from there. After a week in the hospital and an echocardiogram and tests, the family received the news. Ellie had dilated cardiomyopathy—a disease of the heart muscle—and her heart was slowly failing.
Sky Mattan Gopin is a miracle baby. He went from needing a heart transplant to near-normal heart function in just a few months’ time—without heart surgery.
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.
Juliana Vidigal was just shy of 26 weeks pregnant when she started bleeding and feeling abdominal pain. She immediately called her neighbor, who gave her a ride to a nearby hospital in San Francisco. The news wasn’t good.
Novel Interventions in Children’s Healthcare (NICH) Program supports families of babies with chronic health needs.
One minute Logan Schwaderer, age 11, was going to his little sister’s birthday party, and the next he was headed to Stanford Medicine Children’s Health for brain surgery.
Traejen spent hours a day on dialysis after a failed kidney transplant, until a new approach cured his FSGS and helped him get his life back.
Debunking the ‘wait 12 weeks to tell’ pregnancy rule can help women get the proper support after a miscarriage.
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.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health gives kids with advanced pulmonary hypertension another option besides lung transplant.
Floating kidney resolved with minimally-invasive nephropexy surgery.
At our aerodigestive center, we have a large multidisciplinary team—ENTs who intimately understand airway disorders, speech-language pathologists and occupational therapists who specialize in babies with swallowing disorders, pulmonologists who concentrate on aspiration, and gastroenterologists who understand reflux in the context of cleft.
R.J. Stephens is a high-performing athlete supported by a team of pediatric sports medicine specialists at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health.
The craniosynostosis team is made up of multiple pediatric specialists including neurosurgeons and plastic surgeons.
The Moore family of Concord, California, has set a record for having the most kids from one family receiving care at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health. We couldn’t think of a nicer family to reach this milestone.
Asher Gerlach, age 6, is a special kid. Not only because he’s one of just 20–30 children in the world with an exceptionally rare genetic disease, according to medical literature, but also because he has a refreshing take on life.
Felix is the first infant to receive a live donor liver transplant that was removed laparoscopically from an adult donor on the West Coast.
Christian went from being hospitalized several times a year with asthma attacks to playing football, thanks to new medicine and Stanford Medicine Children’s Health experts.
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).
Highly specialized Complex Biventricular Reconstruction Program offers exciting alternative for kids with single ventricle hearts.
Pectus excavatum is a depression in the chest wall that affects approximately 1 in 400 children.
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.
Spondylolysis, a break in the spine, prevented Neill from playing sports. A second opinion led him to Stanford, surgery and a return to an active life.
Stanford hospitals collaborated closely to provide deeply specialized care to expectant mom with heart condition.
Stanford heart team combines two highly complex specialties in a novel PARplant procedure Santana Renchie… Read more »
Stanford doctors use uncommon practice to save Becker muscular dystrophy patient.
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.
Resilient teen becomes Stanford Medicine Children’s Health’s legendary 500th heart transplant.
Branden Dever, SCH kidney transplant patient will ride atop the Donate Life float at the upcoming Rose Bowl parade honoring organ donors.
After fracturing a bone in her ankle, Paige turned to a team of sports medicine and rehab experts at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health—and not for the first time.
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.
Alyssa Burgart, MD, medical director of clinical ethics for Stanford Medicine Children’s Health and a pediatric anesthesiologist, recently bared her soul in a song about COVID-19 that she wrote for weary medical colleagues across her hospital and the nation.
Patient partners with Stanford physician to deliver successfully after previous NH diagnosis.
Bass Center for Childhood Cancer nursing leader helps patients even during her downtime.
More local families sought help feeding their loved ones during the pandemic than ever before, and those numbers are not showing signs of slowing.
A multidisciplinary team of Stanford experts came together to save Lorena and her baby after complications from COVID-19.
Only five nurses in the nation receive the award annually from the ANCC.
Family of teen was told she couldn’t be saved, but doctors at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health offered solutions.
With his Stanford PACT team’s help, a young man reaches rare milestone by living with a VAD for 10 years.
Our expert neonatologist-researcher and director of small baby-unit addresses the most common questions about the benefits of skin-to-skin care in this Q&A article.
Even a pandemic can’t stop frontline nurses from caring, and turning that caring into doing.
A Packard Children’s nurse practitioner offers tips for parents to help keep kids safe near windows.
In honor of National Infertility Awareness Week, we’re joining the conversation about infertility and doing our part to refute myths that cause women and couples unnecessary worry and concern.
Shriya is one in a million. For starters, she’s a 9-year-old girl who will talk… Read more »
Complex brain surgery cures severe epilepsy in 7-year-old boy.
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.
Young boy successfully treated for aplastic anemia during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cali was born with gastroschisis, a birth defect where her intestines grew outside her body.
Rose was born a boy, but she’s always felt like a girl.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health prepared quickly for COVID-19.
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.
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.
Due to COVID-19 extra protocols were taken in the operating room, including N-95 masks and extra PPE.
It takes a village to feed a community, especially during a pandemic. The need inspired those at Packard Children’s to introduce a new food support program.
After fighting lymphoma at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, a teenager uses her Make-a-Wish to give back to other patients.
Nothing says freedom and fun like riding a bike. In honor of national bike month, learn about bike safety from our injury prevention experts.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health is home to one of a small number of programs in the country that offer expert, multidisciplinary care for complex craniosynostosis patients.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health’s Aerodigestive and Airway Reconstruction Center uses collaborative, multispecialty approach to get to root of puzzling symptoms.
We have performed more kidney transplants on children than any other doctors in the Western United States
Stanford approach could potentially impact 100,000-plus newborns each year across the nation.
Innovative Ozaki valve repair technique reverses heart failure and improves functioning.
Patient with rare heart disease thrives thanks to a fighting spirit and a highly knowledgeable care team.
Not the youngest, but possibly the smallest baby in the nation to receive an ICD.
Treating lower urinary tract obstruction in the womb helped get Kaleb to a transplant and an active life.
Fetal surgery gives a baby with spina bifida the best chance at a healthy life.
Teamwork helps teen survive rare cancer.
Doctors used an innovative approach called high intensity focused ultrasound to remove a tumor called an osteoid osteoma without surgery or radiation.
The goal was to cure Brynn’s epilepsy without taking anything away from her quality of life.
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.
A 4-year-old boy is alive today thanks to a complex life support machine and an exceptional transport team.
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.
Jase is now breathing better after battling bronchopulmonary dysplasia and surfactant dysfunction.