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Quality Improvement Project Aims at Changing Steroid Prescribed for Asthma Exacerbations
A quality improvement project underway at St. Louis Children’s Hospital has the goal of educating pediatric emergency medicine physicians and ...
Cochlear Implants: A Viable Option for Children With Single-Sided Deafness
Over the past decade, cochlear implantation for adults with single-sided hearing loss has proven effective in helping to restore sound ...
Case Study: Another Video Game Complication
The following case study was used by Andrew J. White, MD, the James P. Keating, MD Professor of Pediatrics and ...
Perinatal Behavioral Health Service Provides Support for Heart Patients’ Families
The St. Louis Children’s and Washington University Heart Center is committed to ensuring that families have the necessary support both ...
Miner Receives Funding for Pediatric Kidney Disease Research
Jeffrey Miner, professor of medicine in the Division of Nephrology at the School of Medicine, and Jonathan Barnes, assistant professor ...
Children's Named Among Leaders in Health Care Equality
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation named Children's an “LGBTQ Health Care Equality Leader” in the foundation's Healthcare Equality Index 2019. ...
New Pediatric Behavioral Health Unit Expands Hospital's Commitment to Childhood & Adolescent Mental Health
In response to the growing need for pediatric behavioral health care, in July St. Louis Children’s Hospital opened a 14-bed ...
Differences of Sex Development Clinic: Treating Complex Congenital Conditions
Washington University physicians at St. Louis Children’s Hospital created the Differences of Sex Development (DSD) Clinic to provide in one ...
Bariatric Surgery: A Viable Option for Teens With the Disease of Obesity
Since 2013, obesity has been listed as a disease in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems ...
