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Stanford Medicine Children’s Health’s Epilepsy Center provides the latest treatments and loads of compassion for kids with epilepsy.
Stem cell transplant at Stanford Children’s helps Lila achieve remission and celebrate two years cancer-free.
After recovering, Lauren is running competitively and helping others who are considering the same surgery.
When Arizona Martinez walked into her recent gastrointestinal checkup appointment, her doctor couldn’t contain her surprise over what Arizona was wearing.
Needing a heart-lung transplant has not kept ToneeRose Legaspi from living a full life. She recently completed the final step in preparing for her dream career: becoming a librarian.
Woman achieves 40-year anniversary of heart transplant with the same donor heart.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health team at Dignity Health Sequoia Hospital reaches important milestone.
For AANHPI Heritage Month, meet three of our pediatric hematologists and oncologists, who reflect on their heritage and how it influenced their careers.
Girl faces quadruple threat—a viral illness, heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, and a rare heart defect—and prevails.
Innovative i-Rainbow guide helps parents and caregivers know when the time is right for vital skin-to-skin care.
Medha’s Stanford care team has helped her bounce back stronger after multiple injuries and learn how to reduce her injury risk in the future.
A multispecialty Stanford heart team takes heroic measures to ensure a good outcome for a complex heart transplant.
Intestinal Transplant Program at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health frees child from a lifetime of intravenous feeding.
A team of specialists supports boy with rare skin and neurological condition.
None of the treatments designed to fight Camille’s acute lymphocytic leukemia worked, until an innovative stem cell transplant at Stanford.
Knowing what you may be carrying in your genes could literally save your or a family member’s life, including your child’s life.
At 2 and a half years of age, Lewis had a pituitary gland that was working poorly and worsening vision. Then, fear of a new tumor developing near his hypothalamus triggered worry that Lewis would develop hypothalamic obesity. It was time to operate.
Serious infection damages boy’s lungs, but Stanford Medicine Children’s Health critical care doctors heal him over time.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health provides specialized heart care to give Judah the best possible outcome.
Elodie was diagnosed with coarctation of the aorta—a rare heart defect that is present at birth but often does not create symptoms until later in life.
Lauren Adair loves the sport of Lacrosse – so much so that it was the first thing she worried about after being diagnosed with an AVM, or arteriovenous malformation.
Stanford Fertility and Reproductive Health Services helps couple overcome roadblocks to pregnancy.
The Pediatric Epilepsy Center at Stanford Children’s performed a highly complex brain surgery called a craniotomy for Isaac Diaz.
Compassionate in-depth fetal counseling helps family make the best decision for them.
Today, teenage Grace is back to doing what she loves–singing–thanks to our advanced Voice and Swallow Program.
On World Heart Day, we asked our pediatric cardiologists to answer questions around exercise for their child with heart disease.
As a kid, Hannah was inspired by the nurses who cared for her brother as he battled a brain tumor, so she became one herself.
After enduring six months of intense chemotherapy to treat his acute myelogenous leukemia, Pierce is back to an active life.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health is the first-in-nation to offer a small jaw treatment other than surgery.
After 52 years helping children, Dr. Lawrence Rinsky retired in September 2023, leaving a group of doctors he trained to continue his legacy.
After battling high-risk leukemia for years, Emily is finally in lasting remission thanks to an innovative stem cell transplant.
Josh, a 24-year-old from Discovery Bay, California, has Danon disease—a rare genetic condition that weakens muscles in the body, along with the heart.
After tearing his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and half of his meniscus, 12-year-old Aiden worked hard to return to his elite club soccer team.
Ten years ago, Abigail Beutler was born without kidneys. Against all odds, she’s alive today to play with her Breyer horses, read her favorite Paul Revere adventure book, and challenge her brother in archery.
Joseph Sanchez-Munoz is the only child who has ever received three transplants from us, each at a different time in his life.
After a stem cell transplant, Austin suffered from puzzling symptoms, until a second opinion revealed he had graft-versus-host disease.
During our “Celiac Strong” event, we brought together tremendous minds who spoke about every aspect of celiac disease, including how it affects the body, how to eat gluten-free, and the psychological impacts of celiac disease.
No one expects to get any sleep with a new baby. It takes a while for babies to settle into a sleep cycle, and they have to eat often. Yet these usual reasons are not what kept Katie and Ryan Bridge awake when their daughter Claire was just 4 weeks old. It was her noisy breathing.
When Joseph and Devlin went for their wellness check at age 5, their pediatrician noticed that they were not gaining weight like they should. She suspected celiac disease—an autoimmune disorder that is genetically passed on within families.
In honor of the Mental Health Awareness Month and the recent National Infertility Awareness Week, we asked our experts to discuss a very specific topic: the emotional challenges people have when trying to get pregnant but not succeeding.
Zero signs of rejection despite her second intestinal transplant, thanks to advanced protocols and innovations at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health.
The program’s one-year and three-year success rates are 100%, which are unsurpassed despite caring for children with the toughest challenges.
Macy is sharing her scoliosis care story to inspire other girls who are diagnosed with scoliosis as preteens. She wants them to know that they will make it through. Her advice is to “just keep going week to week and focus on something you love to do, letting it carry you to the other side.”
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.
Novel heart-lung procedure gives toddler a chance at a full life. Heart team combines two highly complex specialties in an unique surgical procedure.
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.
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.
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