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Texas Children's Hospital and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have announced a collaboration dedicated to pediatric cancer care.
Webinars
This webinar explores the mental health challenges that today鈥檚 youth face and how health care organizations can integrate behavioral health to create support systems that foster the mental well-being of children and adolescents.
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The U.S. birth rate fell 2% in 2023 to about 3.6 million, according to final data released March 18 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The Duke team performed the world鈥檚 first living mitral valve replacement, a type of partial heart transplant, which Duke pioneered in 2022.
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A team at Yale New Haven Children鈥檚 Hospital in Connecticut performed a minimally invasive procedure on a 3-day-old baby who had been diagnosed with a lymphatic malformation in utero.
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Loma Linda University Children's Hospital recently made history performing the first pediatric partial heart transplant in Southern California.
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Rachel and Marco Vargas recently welcomed four identical baby girls at Banner 鈥 University Medical Center Phoenix, a rare occurrence with odds estimated at one in 40 million.
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Hearts have a special meaning for Heavenleigh Weilage. For one thing, she was born on Valentine鈥檚 Day 2022. For another, she was the first child in the country to receive a pacemaker so small it鈥檚 the size of a large pill.
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A case study by the AHA's Community Health Improvement network explains how Children鈥檚 Mercy Kansas City created a new model to coordinate its community health efforts and make more progress at a faster rate.
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University of California Davis Health has launched a first-in-the-nation program called PATH (Promoting Accessibility To Healthcare) to improve the health care experience for children who have autism and other neurodevelopmental disabilities.
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Modern medical technology has led to remarkable advancements, but staff at Loma Linda University Medical Center-Murrieta know that something as basic as a strategically labeled bracelet can help save a life.
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The Oklahoma Children鈥檚 Hospital Paws for Purpose program has been helping patients with cognitive, physical and emotional healing since 2017.
Advancing Health Podcast
Advancing Health's series, 鈥淐aring for Our Kids,鈥 focuses on how pediatric hospitals are meeting the needs of their communities.
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Some things run in families; for Matthew Smith and his son Turner, that鈥檚 care at Children鈥檚 Hospital of Georgia.
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Shodair Children鈥檚 Hospital in Helena, Mont., has launched the Hope Campaign to reduce stigma and encourage conversations about youth mental health.
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President Trump Feb. 13 signed an executive order establishing the Make America Healthy Again Commission, to be chaired by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The commission is tasked with 鈥渋nvestigating and addressing the root causes of America鈥檚 escalating health crisis, with an initial focus on childhood chronic diseases.鈥澛
Advancing Health Podcast
In this "Caring for Our Kids" episode, Traci Carter, program manager of Raising St. Louis, and Nicole Kozma, director of school and community outreach programs at St. Louis Children鈥檚 Hospital and BJC Community Health Improvement, discuss聽the scope of the Raising St. Louis program.
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A study by the Penn State Department of Nutritional Sciences found that low vitamin D levels in the first trimester of pregnancy are associated with higher rates of preterm birth and decreased fetal length.    鈥淢ore than 25% of women who are pregnant or lactating have lower than recommended levels of vitamin D,鈥 said Alison Gernand, one of the study's authors.   
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When parents have a child with a serious illness, all they want is for their child to get well. If that no longer becomes a possibility, often all they want is to bring their child home.
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The U.S. maternal mortality rate decreased to 18.6 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2023, down from 22.3 in 2022, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.