About a year ago, David Clark was looking for inspiration for his Eagle Scout project. All he knew was that he wanted to make a lasting impact on the community. That was when he stumbled upon pictures of children sitting on IV lily pads.
One of the most common myths speech-language pathologists encounter is the idea that bilingualism causes language delays or confusion. But that’s not the case.
Patients got dressed up to celebrate a high school tradition despite being hospitalized.
Recovering from two concussions in one year teaches teen patience and resilience. Sara lui, MD, Kirk Mulgrew, MD, and Cynthia Lee, MD, offer team approach on care for teen with concussion.
To address the growing need for support, Victor Carrión, MD, and his team assembled resources to help.
March 3 is World Hearing Day. Learn how to spot signs of hearing loss in children and general tips on how to encourage safe listening habits.
One mom wrote a book with the advice she got from her daughter’s Stanford Children’s care team to help other parents navigating a child’s cancer diagnosis.
A joyous start to the New Year as Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford celebrates the birth of Rania Zhang.
After receiving the gift of a new heart and lungs, Roza Saad strives to live a life that reflects the generosity of her donor.
Pediatrician Tara Tanaka, MD, weighs in to help you understand more about picky eating and what you can do about it.
Gifts are an exciting part of the holiday season. But it is critical to remember the importance of safety, especially when it comes to young children.
As Stanford Medicine observes Women in Medicine month, one department chair shares how she has promoted gender equity for her faculty.
Prom returned to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. Patients and their guests celebrated “A Night in New York City.”
Packard Children’s hospital school celebrates 100 years of caring for young patients
Daylight saving time (DST) – when clocks jump forward one hour in most states – is just around the corner, and it can be a tricky time for kids as they need to adjust.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health celebrates Leap Day babies
Baby Garcia arrives early to celebrate the new year with parents.
Pediatrician Dr. Joelle McConlogue discusses how to childproof your home: school age and up.
Window cleaners changed into their secret identities as Batman, Flash, Mr. Incredible, and Spiderman, bringing a wave of smiles and joy to the little and big heroes inside.
Doctors, nurses, therapists, hospital staff and volunteers at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford all went the extra mile to give patients the ‘BOOst’ they need to feel better this Halloween.
Health care experts say vaccines are our superheroes when it comes to protecting people against highly contagious respiratory illnesses.
Offering insight on head lice signs, symptoms, causes and treatment.
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.
Offering you insights on how to help your child navigate separation anxiety.
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month – a time to recognize children and survivors affected by pediatric cancer in order to raise awareness and continue the research and treatment of the disease.
For some hospitalized patients, virtual reality lessons at the bedside are another educational tool to enable deeper learning and allow young students to experience the world beyond the classroom walls.
Pediatrician Paula Tamashiro Tairaku, MD, explains why back-to-school vaccinations are so important for your child and the community as a whole.
Getting her degree as a registered nurse is a dream come true for Misty Blue Foster. And she did so with the support of her caregivers at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
Through a photo project, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health patient families shared their hospital experiences through their eyes.
The critical care transport teams have more than 30 years of experience as mobile intensive care units at Stanford Children’s and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
A Stanford Children’s team is deploying a systematic new way for our healthcare providers to ask about and respond to needs in patients’ lives that occur outside the medical system.
The hospital’s annual Lunar New Year celebration was back in-person for the first time since the pandemic to ring in the Year of the Rabbit.
For children with chronic illness, missing regular wellness visits can negatively impact health well into adulthood.
A Stanford Medicine Children’s Health pediatric heart transplant patient is riding on the Donate Life Rose Parade float to raise awareness for organ donation. This is her story.
Fernando Hurtado, a social work resource coordinator at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, organized a toy drive to ensure that every patient in the hospital receives a special gift this holiday season.
To help parents be proactive and ward off potential perils, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health offers some expert tips for dealing with choking threats around the holidays.
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.
As a parent and caregiver, you play an important role in making healthy choices for your children and in teaching them to make healthy choices on their own. Here are some tips from clinical pediatric dietitian and nutritionist, Venus Kalami on some simple things you can do to help your family establish healthy eating habits.
Like many children’s hospitals across the country, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health is experiencing an increased… Read more »
From giant inflatable pumpkins to balloons, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health caregivers transformed the Dawes Garden into an interactive Halloweentown to bring patients and their families a spook-tacular celebration.
The annual Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Pumpkin Patch Fall Festival at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford resumed outdoors in the Dunlevie Garden.
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.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Pediatrics – Foster City becomes the newest practice to join Stanford Medicine Children’s Health.
Dr. Molly Meadows, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, offers advice on this common injury.
Children and teens with ulcerative colitis have many more treatment options than a decade ago,… Read more »
Summer break is the perfect time to explore and play outside. However, with that, comes an increased chance of getting injured.
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.
Pediatrician Nora Fahden, MD, with Stanford Medicine Children’s Health’s Bayside Medical Group in San Ramon, offers some tips for keeping skin healthy and what to do when there’s a problem.
May is Celiac Disease Awareness Month, coinciding with the announcement of the new Center for IBD and Celiac Disease at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health.
Four families share the comprehensive and personalized support provided by care network physicians.
Pectus excavatum is a depression in the chest wall that affects approximately 1 in 400 children.
Two of Stanford Medicine Children’s Health founding pediatricians share how the care network helps them bring the best care possible to their patients.
Kids celebrate spring activity outside the patient room From bubbles to ice cream to therapy… Read more »
Access to doctors within the Stanford Medicine Children’s Health care network saved the life and sight of a 2-month old baby.
Julia Pederson, MD, shares some ways to make your toddler’s next meltdown a little less terrible.
Parents met with the liver transplant team and a month later she had transplant surgery.
Child Life program uses dogs to help children cope with scary medical procedures.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health pediatrician Amina Ahmed, MD, has some helpful tips for dealing with your child’s bloody nose.
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.
Dietitian helps guide parents on food choices for kids and how to make sense of food labels.
In the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, Stanford Medicine researchers had to pause a study of autism treatment in preschoolers. The halt was stressful for kids and their families, so a team of pediatric psychologists pivoted to offering the treatment online.
Providing continuous glucose monitors to kids with new type 1 diabetes improves their blood sugar levels a year later, a Stanford study showed.
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.
ENT specialist Jocelyn Kohn, MD, discusses laryngomalacia.
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.
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.
Children born very prematurely are at risk for cognitive and behavioral problems linked to excess screen time.
During four decades of caring for the children of immigrants who live in the U.S. without legal permission, Stanford pediatrician Fernando Mendoza, MD, often had to ask the parents of his patients a painful question: “Have you talked to your kids about what happens if you get picked up by immigration enforcement?”
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.
After a lull early in the pandemic, head injury rates for kids are ticking up again. Parents should know what to do if their child gets hurt.
As the peak of wildfire season coincides with the beginning of the school year, Stanford pediatrician Lisa Patel, MD, answers key questions about the effects of climate change and the dangers smoke can have in children.
Orthopedic surgeon Charles Chan discusses how your child can safely return to sports this summer.
Recent innovations in managing the condition have helped patients cope and get back to enjoying their lives.
In honor of National Scoliosis Awareness Month pediatric orthopedic surgeon James Policy answers key questions about the condition.
Dr. Anita Juvvadi outlines fun and safe activities kids and families can do this summer.
Pediatrician Nivedita More discusses some of the myths about food allergies and some ways to help prevent food allergies in young children.
What really works for children and sleep? Dr. Joelle McConlogue reveals some tips to help children and teens get the rest they need.
An inquisitive teenager and a determined cardiologist work together to treat a rare type of pediatric arrhythmia which required a different approach.
Biliary atresia is a rare disease, occurring in about 1 in 12,000 U.S. births.
Pediatrician Lauren Strelitz, MD, provides some advice on helping teens navigate this difficult time.
Cali was born with gastroschisis, a birth defect where her intestines grew outside her body.
About 150 ERCP procedures a year are performed at LPCH, about 10% in infants.
It is important to not lose sight of the need to stay physically active, while staying socially distant.
A spirit of cooperation drives care and research at Packard Children’s.
With the recent wildfires, the air we breathe can be worrisome, especially for children with asthma.
The change to virtual learning can be challenging for families, and the extra stress can be a trigger for picky eaters.
Critical Care Transport Expanded to East Bay
Doctors team up to help infant with tongue-tie.
A unique Stanford team helps families tackle the financial, logistical, and emotional challenges of caring for their medically complex children.
Claire has cystic fibrosis, but new treatments that attack the disease at the genetic level are helping her live a full life.
A quick diagnosis by doctors at Pediatric Group of Monterey and LPCH lead to a complete recovery for an infant with a rare case of botulism.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health’s Aerodigestive and Airway Reconstruction Center uses collaborative, multispecialty approach to get to root of puzzling symptoms.
Seed funding awarded to start-ups working to develop health technology for children.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health pediatrician Anita Juvvadi, MD, addresses some of the most common questions she is hearing from parents about COVID-19.
How much screen time is OK? How can I help my child build healthy habits? There’s no manual for raising a child, but Jasmin Makar, MD shares tips with Sue Hall of 96.5 KOIT to keep your child healthy.
November is National Diabetes Month, a time when communities across the country team up to bring attention to diabetes.
Raquel Nieves, MD, talks about caring for children with Down syndrome or other special needs from both a professional and personal perspective.
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.
The Stanford Medicine Children’s Health network continues to grow with our newest addition, Town and Country Pediatrics, located in San Francisco and Mill Valley.
Vanita Jindal, MD, a Stanford Medicine Children’s Health pediatrician reminds new parents about the “5 S’s” for soothing a fussy infant.
In her own words, a transplant patient’s personal essay: “I am the girl with a history of restrictive cardiomyopathy.”
Whistles, smiles and laughter were in the air when players from the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters dropped in for a special visit to Packard Children’s.
We recently checked in on the Sandoval twins of Antelope Valley, California. The girls, Erika and Eva, who are now 4-years-old, are smiling big as ever — with good reason!
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford ranked in all 10 specialties by U.S. News & World Report.
Before you get rolling, read up on these bike safety tips from Stanford’s pediatric trauma team.
German cyclist Jörg Richter kicked off a more than 8,000-mile bike ride across the United States with a visit to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford last week.
We here at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health would like to welcome Altos Pediatric Associates in Los Altos to our expanding network of care.
We are pleased to announce Peninsula Pediatric Medical Group is welcoming patients in their newest Menlo Park office.
Residents of Fremont and its neighboring communities now have greater access to the Stanford Medicine Children’s Health network.
We’re living in a world of increased mass shootings and 24-7 media coverage – making it harder than ever to shield children from news about gun violence.
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.
Lisa Chamberlain, MD, MPH brings a first-hand perspective after working with legislators in Sacramento about the California Children’s Services program.
When you are a kid and you’re sick, you go to the pediatrician. If you have a chronic medical condition, as in my case, you establish a team of pediatric specialists who can provide for your health issues on a consistent basis throughout your childhood.
Ask any doctor what is the best way for you and your children to avoid the flu this season and they’ll give you a simple answer: Get a flu vaccination. Still, there are rumors and misinformation that can leave a parent concerned or unsure of the facts about the safety or necessity of vaccine.
Fifty Stanford Medicine Children’s Health transplant patients are spending the week at camp having fun while still getting the medcial care they need. Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford is a national leader in pediatric organ transplantation. We sponsor this camp to give kids who have received a transplant a chance to enjoy being children and to connect with other kids like them.
Our Pediatric Advocacy Program, along with some passionate community partners, helped feed hungry children and families over the winter break.
On warm fall days in California, families may leave windows open to cool off. here are some tips to keep kids safe and prevent accidents.
Top-ranked group in Mountain View is now a part of one of the most comprehensive and sought-after health-care brands in America.
Whether your child is entering kindergarten or heading off to high school, the beginning of the school year is a good time to schedule your child’s annual physical.
Freckles are a phenomenon that occurs when genetically predisposed people (often those with fair skin, red hair, and light eyes) are exposed to UV light over time, according to Joyce Teng, MD, director of pediatric dermatology for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
Recently, writer Stephanie Booth with Cafe Mom’s The Stir discussed with our chief of adolescent medicine, Neville Golden, MD, tips on when to transition a child from pediatric to adolescent care.
Top-ranked group group in Los Gatos, Calif., is now a part of one of the most comprehensive and sought-after health-care brands in America
What Ellen found was a family-based, group behavioral and educational program, one that taught lifelong healthy eating and exercise habits for overweight children, adolescents and their families.
To help babies in the neonatal intensive care unit start life strong, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford has launched a March of Dimes NICU Family Support® program, offering support and information to help families cope with the emotional and difficult experience of having a sick baby.
With the days of summer vacation soon coming to an end, parents are getting in gear to send their kids back to school. Along with stocking up on school supplies and buying new clothes, it’s also a good time to think about their health needs.
This week, we are celebrating Lucile Salter Packard, our hospital’s founder and visionary, in honor of what would have been her 100th birthday. Her dream was simple: to nurture both the body and soul of every child.
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