Preschooler Living Seizure-Free With Leading-Edge Medicine
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health’s Epilepsy Center provides the latest treatments and loads of compassion for kids with epilepsy.
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Family Turns Newborn’s Rare Diagnosis Into Something Beautiful
A team of specialists supports boy with rare skin and neurological condition.
Teenager With Epilepsy Looking Forward to Driving After Complex Craniotomy
The Pediatric Epilepsy Center at Stanford Children’s performed a highly complex brain surgery called a craniotomy for Isaac Diaz.
How to Recognize and Treat Concussions in Kids
Concussion specialists answer your questions about preventing concussions in your child and what to expect during the recovery process.
Living a Whole Life With Half a Brain
Complex brain surgery cures severe epilepsy in 7-year-old boy.
A Neurologist Explains Pediatric Headaches
Chronic headaches are common in childhood, which has a lot of parents wondering how to manage them and when to see a doctor. Susy Jeng, MD, a child neurologist, discusses commonly asked questions about managing headaches.
Alex: 10 Seizures: 0
Persistence, teamwork, high-tech imaging, and surgical advances help 10-year-old boy leave his disabling seizures behind.
Hadlee’s Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) Story
A Wyoming family’s search for answers to their daughter’s frequent seizures led them to experts at Packard Children’s.
Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month brings attention to deadly genetic disease — and a new treatment bringing hope for families.
Seamless care from Monterey to Palo Alto saves baby with brain cyst
Karina Barger and her husband David Goldman noticed something unusual with their 2-month-old son Bobby. He was consistently looking to the left and couldn’t bring his eyes to look straight ahead.
After radiation-free treatment for their son’s brain cancer, family travels 6100 miles every year to reunite with their care team at Packard Children’s
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.
Q & A: Rare polio-like disease emerges in California
(Updated March 25, 2014.) Keith Van Haren, MD, pediatric neurologist at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital… Read more »
"Kicking for Miracles" Raises Over $10K!
The first-ever “Kicking for Miracles” event, hosted by World Class Tae Kwon Do in San… Read more »
Something to Smile About
A year ago, Jon and Kristi Cannon feared their young son would never smile again…. Read more »
Balancing Care with Busy Boyhood
It’s been more than seven years since Cole Rossi was cured of a rare brain cancer. The tumor and therapy left him with low levels of growth hormone, double vision, and physical weakness. He remains on hormone treatment and gets MRIs twice a year. He sees an oncologist every six months and a neurologist every other year.
Packard Children’s Ranked Among Nation’s Best
In the U.S. News & World Report publication of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals for 2012-13,… Read more »
