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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 3- Pronged Plan to Cut Type 2 Diabetes Risk FRIDAY, July 13, 2018 ( Health Day News) -- The type 2 diabetes tide remains unchecked in the United States, as does pre-diabetes -- having a blood sugar level higher than normal, but not high enough for a...
A Baby's Laugh Is Truly Monkey Business WEDNESDAY, Nov. 7, 2018 ( Health Day News) -- Babies laugh just like monkeys, researchers report. An analysis of recorded laughter from 44 infants, aged 3 to 18 months, revealed that the youngest babies laughed both as...
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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...
