An Unusual School Celebrates Its First Century
Packard Children’s hospital school celebrates 100 years of caring for young patients
Packard Children’s hospital school celebrates 100 years of caring for young patients
For the first time this fall, babies in the United States will have access to shots to protect against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, in addition to flu and COVID-19. Here’s everything you need to know ahead of respiratory virus season.
For children with chronic illness, missing regular wellness visits can negatively impact health well into adulthood.
Like many children’s hospitals across the country, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health is experiencing an increased… Read more »
With COVID cases rising, many parents are eager to vaccinate their youngest kids. Grace Lee, MD, answers frequently asked questions about vaccines for young children.
Pediatric advice on how the experience of living through a pandemic is affecting kids.
Traveling and gathering for the holidays can be complicated with the Omicron COVID-19 variant spreading. Nivedita More, MD, provides some tips for families.
Roshni Mathew, MD, a pediatric infectious diseases physician and co-medical director of infection prevention and control at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, answers some of the top questions families have about the new variant.
Pediatric advice for keeping your family healthy this cold and flu season.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Heath experts answer parents’ FAQs, including how to schedule vaccinations.
COVID-19 is daunting for all parents, but even more so for parents of children with a heart condition.
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.
In a series of short FAQ videos, Stanford Medicine pediatric infectious disease expert Yvonne Maldonado, MD, and two other pediatricians discuss the vaccines’ safety and efficacy, the need for everyone 12 years and older to be vaccinated and the status ofongoing clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines for younger children.
Pediatrician Julia Pederson provide advice for parents to help children get ready to go back to in-person school.
A multidisciplinary team of Stanford experts came together to save Lorena and her baby after complications from COVID-19.
Five tips for this summer’s vacation.
Dr. Anita Juvvadi outlines fun and safe activities kids and families can do this summer.
Even a pandemic can’t stop frontline nurses from caring, and turning that caring into doing.
Christi Arnerich, an ENT specialist, answers a parent’s question regarding elective surgery during the Covid-19 pandemic.
As young people return to in-person learning amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Vicki Harrison, MSW, from the Stanford Center for Youth Mental Health & Wellbeing offers advice to help quell students’ anxieties.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health physician Alan Schroeder, MD, talks about his work caring for kids with COVID-19 symptoms in the pediatric intensive care unit.
Young boy successfully treated for aplastic anemia during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pediatrician Lauren Strelitz, MD, provides some advice on helping teens navigate this difficult time.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health pediatric infectious disease expert Roshni Mathew, MD, answers common questions about the COVID-19 vaccines.
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford has been named a Most Innovative Children’s Hospital by PARENTS Magazine.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health prepared quickly for COVID-19.
It is important to not lose sight of the need to stay physically active, while staying socially distant.
The country’s pediatricians have called for new COVID-19 vaccines to be appropriately vetted for safety and efficacy for everyone, including children.
Guidance from the CDC, local county officials and Stanford Medicine Children’s Health experts on ways to safely celebrate Halloween and Día de Los Muertos during the pandemic.
With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it’s more important than ever for children to be vaccinated now against the flu.
Advice on how to keep your children safe if they return to playing sports during the pandemic.
During the pandemic, the Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Teen Van has provided COVID-19 testing, supplies, routine health care and telehealth visits for families in need across the Bay Area.
Youth ages 13-24 who vape are up to seven times more likely to be diagnosed with the 2019 novel coronavirus.
By now, we all know that the novel coronavirus spreads when an infected person speaks,… Read more »
In the age of the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), Stanford Medicine Children’s Health has been… Read more »
Chief of pediatric infectious diseases, Yvonne Maldonado, MD, spoke with NPR about the dangers of skipping routine well-visits and immunizations during the pandemic.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health resumes care delayed by COVID-19.
Op-ed by National Center for Youth Law’s Rachel Velcoff Hults and Stanford’s Steven Adelsheim, MD, calls attention to the potential mental health impacts on youth from COVID-19 and trauma surrounding racial injustice in America.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health experts offer ideas and advice for helping kids with distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, including children with special needs.
Infectious disease experts at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health discuss the rare pediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome that has been linked with COVID-19.
Virtual visits allow patients and/or their guardians to interact and consult with their health care provider, who can review the patient’s medical information for the purposes of diagnosis and treatment, go over test results, fulfill prescriptions, and provide patient education.
As COVID-19 continues to spread, Stanford Medicine Children’s experts have advice about communicating with children and reducing their anxiety.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health pediatrician Anita Juvvadi, MD, addresses some of the most common questions she is hearing from parents about COVID-19.