pediatric

White Coat Black Art26:30Aging out of pediatric careFor the past 21 years, Marcy White has been fighting to keep her son Jacob Trossman alive — and that fight recently got a lot harder.Jacob has Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease (PMD), an…

A Missouri pediatric children's hospital announced it would no longer provide puberty blockers or hormone therapies to children due to a state law that now forces them to stop carrying out these irreversible procedures on minors. The…

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation Childhood Cancer Data Lab, the Children's Brain Tumor Network (CBTN), the Pacific Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Consortium (PNOC), and more than 20…

Sarah Turnbull says the wait for her three-year-old Blake to see a pediatric gastroenterologist was going to be six years. Now it seems like it could be endless, with Saskatchewan's only doctor in that specialty set to leave this coming…

Pediatric hospitals across the country are doling out gun safety locks as firearms become the leading cause of death among children. More than 4,000 under-19s were slain by guns in 2020 alone, meaning firearms now claim more lives than car…

Karine Philipps cherishes every one of her son Zachary's smiles. "It's the best thing," says the mother of one.Born with a rare genetic disorder, 10-year-old Zachary is unable to walk or talk. So smiling is the way he communicates. "It's…

Quebec’s health minister says the “one call, one service” 811 hotline is now accessible across the province so parents of sick children can seek medical advice and hopefully avoid overcrowded emergency rooms. “I think parents will…

The London Health Sciences Centre is reassigning staff who have experience working with children and is continuing to call on retirees to return to the pediatric critical care unit as it struggles to treat young patients needing care.In an…

It's 1:50 p.m. on a recent weekday at the intensive care unit of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children as a trio of women try to solve the latest problem.  There are three children who need to be in SickKids' ICU but are not.One is waiting…

It’s 1:50 p.m. on a recent weekday at the intensive care unit of Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children as a trio of women try to solve the latest problem. There are three children who need to be in SickKids’ ICU but are not.One is…