Felix is the first infant to receive a live donor liver transplant that was removed laparoscopically from an adult donor on the West Coast.


Felix is the first infant to receive a live donor liver transplant that was removed laparoscopically from an adult donor on the West Coast.
Elisabeth Martin, MD, and Raji Koppolu, NP, encourage those who are just starting their career to enjoy each step of the journey.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Irogue Igbinosa, MD, Kelly Mahaney, MD, and Hayley Gans, MD, explain how they found their calling.
In part two of our Women’s History Month features, we celebrate some of the outstanding women at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health who make such a difference for patients and the community at large.
In honor of Women’s History Month, we are featuring some of the outstanding women at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health who make such a difference for patients and the community at large.
A comprehensive new study of premature babies in the United States is helping redefine what it means for a premature infant to survive.
A diagnosis of Coffin-Lowry syndrome and monitoring by a team of experts puts a family at ease.
About 150 ERCP procedures a year are performed at LPCH, about 10% in infants.
With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it’s more important than ever for children to be vaccinated now against the flu.
Four sets of twins are born in the span of 32 hours at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
Care teams work to ensure safe, quality care during a global pandemic.
Trauma expert provides advice for parents on how to keep their children safe during shelter in place.
Cesarean sections are the most commonly performed operations around the world. But just how effective are these procedures, which have their own risks and complications, in saving the lives of women and their newborns?
Teenagers who don’t sleep enough pay a heavy price, potentially compromising their physical and mental health. Study after study in the medical literature sounds the alarm over what can go wrong when teens suffer chronic sleep deprivation: drowsy driving incidents, poor academic performance, anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts and even suicide attempts. “I think high school is the real danger spot in terms of sleep deprivation,” says Stanford sleep expert William Dement, MD, PhD. “It’s a huge problem.”
For a month, Stanford emergency physician Colin Bucks, MD, found himself in the remote, dense jungle of northeast Liberia in the heat of the battle against Ebola. Now back home in Redwood City, Calif., he shares his stories from the front.