Exercise plays a key role in helping children with cerebral palsy to improve or maintain their mobility, including the ability to walk. But research has shown that many of these kids don’t get the physical activity they need.
22-Apr-2024 12:05 PM EDT
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Children's Hospital Los Angeles has been at the forefront of retinoblastoma research for decades. Dr. David Cobrinik was invited to review the current state of retinoblastoma research in the New England Journal of Medicine.
19-Apr-2024 11:05 AM EDT
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Children with liver transplants must take immunosuppressant medications for life. To maintain tolerance of the transplanted liver, doctors treat transplant rejection and conduct ongoing maintenance immunosuppression by increasing dosages of...
16-Apr-2024 1:05 PM EDT
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A broken tether is a common complication after vertebral body tethering for scoliosis, occurring in up to 50% of cases. But what happens to a spinal curve after a tether breaks? And how often do patients need additional surgery? A new international...
15-Apr-2024 1:05 PM EDT
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No therapies currently exist that can halt the progression of chronic kidney disease in children or restore the ability of kidney cells to filter blood.
8-Apr-2024 9:00 AM EDT
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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has launched Virtual Urgent Care, connecting families with pediatric specialists from California’s #1 children’s hospital without the drive.
28-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
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The program increases much-needed access to surgical treatment
for youth with obesity
25-Mar-2024 6:00 AM EDT
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Vaccine misinformation has gone mainstream—a post-pandemic reality that is putting more children at risk of exposure to potentially serious vaccine-preventable diseases like measles.
18-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
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Dr. Burgener, a pediatric pulmonologist who joined CHLA last summer from Stanford University, studies cystic fibrosis (CF), a genetic disorder that affects the lungs, pancreas and other organs.
15-Apr-2024 9:05 AM EDT
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This spring, Rachel Chapman, MD, traveled to two cities in China to share expertise on one of the most complex lifesaving interventions for critically ill newborns: extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).Dr. Chapman, Associate Division Chief of...
3-Aug-2023 7:05 PM EDT
The coronavirus pandemic is no longer a national emergency, but the virus that causes COVID-19 isn’t gone—and neither is the risk of getting the disease. For parents, navigating when to get their child vaccinated and knowing how to best protect...
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New technology is allowing Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to provide continuous renal replacement therapy to babies as small as 5 pounds. Providing kidney dialysis to small and fragile babies has long been challenging—with most dialysis...
28-Feb-2023 9:00 AM EST
In a rare and high-risk procedure, a 1-month-old baby became the first patient with single-ventricle heart disease to receive a ventricular assist device (VAD) at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
21-Feb-2023 2:05 PM EST
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