Two experts break down what parents need to know about a new safety alert from the Food and Drug Administration and updated safe sleep guidelines.


Two experts break down what parents need to know about a new safety alert from the Food and Drug Administration and updated safe sleep guidelines.
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.
Ever since Iliana had a fetal surgery, she has been defying the odds that often accompany her serious form of spina bifida.
According to the Association of American Medical Colleges less than 10% of neurosurgeons identify as female, but at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, it’s the entire care team.
The craniosynostosis team is made up of multiple pediatric specialists including neurosurgeons and plastic surgeons.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Irogue Igbinosa, MD, Kelly Mahaney, MD, and Hayley Gans, MD, explain how they found their calling.
Persistence, teamwork, high-tech imaging, and surgical advances help 10-year-old boy leave his disabling seizures behind.
Due to COVID-19 extra protocols were taken in the operating room, including N-95 masks and extra PPE.
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.
Fetal surgery gives a baby with spina bifida the best chance at a healthy life.
The goal was to cure Brynn’s epilepsy without taking anything away from her quality of life.
Chiari malformation is a serious neurological disorder where the bottom part of the brain, known as the cerebellar tonsils, descends out of the skull and crowds the spinal cord.
When Elijah Olivas’s hand was severed in a car accident, dozens of experts from our pediatric trauma team coordinated to perform 20 hours of life- and limb-saving surgery.
On Veterans Day 2014, Grant is reflecting on his service to our country and how it impacts his lifesaving care for kids. In 2005, at the height of the Iraq war, Grant was one of 18 U.S. Air Force and Army surgeons in a tent hospital at Balad Air base, the largest U.S. military base in Iraq. Located outside Balad in the Sunni Triangle, the base housed the Air Force Theater Hospital, a level 1 trauma center.
Dr. Gerald Grant and his neurosurgery team quickly and successfully treated Emily Zimmerman’s fast-growing brain tumor. “To have this level of care for our daughter is our greatest relief,” said mom.
In 2005 13-year-old Monica Datta joined several other young people in undergoing MRIs as part of a research study at Stanford University. Unlike everyone else, Datta’s unexpectedly revealed a spot in her brain that nobody had known about.
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In planning the layouts of the new patient rooms and operating suites, life-size mockups were constructed off-site and assessed by representatives of everyone who would use them.
In the U.S. News & World Report publication of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals for 2012-13,… Read more »