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Creating a Full Circle of Care
When 3-month-old Hank Matzke started running a fever and wouldn’t stop crying late one Saturday night, his parents, Amanda and ...
A Christmas Miracle
Peter Needham’s recovery from head trauma has created a yearly family tradition. No parent wants to spend the night in ...
Celebrating Big for Savannah
Nothing stops Savannah from living every day of her life to the fullest—not even the colorectal issues that have caused ...
Keeping Up With Nia
A rare heart condition doesn’t stop Nia Hughes from doing what she loves Eight-year-old Nia Hughes is a vibrant and ...
Getting Back in the Saddle
After suffering a stroke at age 3, Emiliano De Lira Muñoz is looking forward to riding horses again. ...
Luke Kicks On
A serious knee injury did more than take soccer from Luke Giesing—it also robbed him of part of his identity ...
From Jackson, Mississippi, to St. Louis Children's Hospital: One Mom’s Quest for Her Son’s Cochlear Implant
Ian Farley, now age 12, was born with single-sided deafness. A cause for his deafness was never identified; according to ...
Hope for the Future
As a mom and a nurse in the St. Louis Children’s Hospital newborn intensive care unit, Lisa Taylor can sense ...
Medical Animations: Patent Foramen Ovale
The foramen ovale is a natural opening that exists between the right and left atria in the fetal circulatory system ...