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Share Your Patient's Story select 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...
State of the Heart select 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...
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Greg Raver- Lampman A Hazard to Her Health 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...
By George Stinnett Leading the Way 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 Better Test to Help Spot Glaucoma? FRIDAY, July 16, 2021 ( Health Day News) -- Glaucoma is a leading cause of vision loss in older people, and early detection can bring better treatment. Now, researchers in Australia say their experimental genetic test...
A Better, Safer Way to Rid Some Kids of Seizures? TUESDAY, Dec. 8, 2020 ( Health Day News) -- Children with tough-to-treat epilepsy now have another choice to help them live a life free of seizures, a new study suggests. MRI-guided laser interstitial...
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# Girl Dad: Fostering Strength in Our Daughters 2021-09-14 off 4294976187 The girl dad hashtag became popular on social media in early 2020. Many fathers participated in this movement as a tribute after the passing of former NBA player, Kobe Bryant and his...
5 Strategies to Reduce Your Child’s Test Anxiety 2019-03-04 off 4294976180 Dr. Melissa Horton By Dr. Melissa Horton , Town Center Pediatrics School exams have always been a source of anxiety for students. And, with today’s educational standards, the...
