Child and Adolescent Health
Advancing Health's series, “Caring for Our Kids,” focuses on how pediatric hospitals are meeting the needs of their communities.
Some things run in families; for Matthew Smith and his son Turner, that’s care at Children’s Hospital of Georgia.
Shodair Children’s Hospital in Helena, Mont., has launched the Hope Campaign to reduce stigma and encourage conversations about youth mental health.
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 “investigating and addressing the root causes of America’s escalating…
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’s Hospital and BJC Community Health Improvement, discuss the scope of the Raising St. Louis program.
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.
Congenital heart disease is the most common type of birth defect, affecting nearly one in 100 births each year. Thanks to medical and surgical advances in recent years, more people born with heart defects are living longer, healthier lives.
In this new “Caring for Our Kids” episode, David Wagner, pediatric psychologist at Oregon Health and Science University, discusses the Novel Interventions in Children's Healthcare program and how this innovative approach is transforming care for vulnerable children.
In this new “Caring for Our Kids” episode, David Wagner, Ph.D., pediatric psychologist at OHSU, discusses the Novel Interventions in Children's Healthcare (NICH) program, and how this innovative approach is transforming care for vulnerable children.
The journey isn’t over after a child beats cancer — at least not at Texas Children’s Hospital.