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Share Your Patient's Story When an injury jeopardized Connor O' Shea 's dream, CHKD's sports medicine team helped make college football a reality. CHKD is full of amazing stories like Connor's – and we hope you’ll share yours, too. Whether it’s about a...
State of the Heart A child's heart is a small, muscular workhorse about the size of the little one's fist, most of us expect to work perfectly until old age. But eight out of every 1,000 babies are born with heart defects. The defects can range from less...
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A Hazard to Her Health Greg Raver- Lampman Yaritza Medina located her missing key-fob battery on a hospital X-ray, which showed it lodged in the throat of her 5-year-old daughter, Savannah. Only minutes after Savannah swallowed the battery, its electrical...
Leading the Way George Stinnett The adventuresome, inquisitive 4-year-old loves traveling with her parents, Ram Ganeshan and Tonya Boone, who are professors at the College of William and Mary’s School of Business. They frequently travel the world to...
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A Child's Concept of Death Every child, at any age, has his or her own unique concept of death. Past experiences with death for the terminally ill child, as well as, his or her age, emotional development, and surroundings are what most influence a child's...
A Child's First Dental Visit Fact Sheet When should your child first see a dentist? You can take your child at a younger age, but experts recommend taking him or her within 6 months of the first tooth coming in (erupting), or by about 12 months at the...
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10 Things We Can Learn From Babies 2016-10-11 off 4294976183 Our children come into the world, and they don’t know how to do much more than cry, sleep, eat and poop. From the moment they become ours, we teach them what they need to know. I’m talking...
10 Ways Parents Know Fall Has Arrived 2017-10-10 off 4294976183 At the end of August, I’m always so ready for school to start. But now that we’re back in the swing of things for the fall, I remember why I love summer. Man, are we busy ! With...
