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Perinatal Behavioral Health Service Provides Support for Heart Patients’ Families
St. Louis Children's Hospital discusses how they provide support to families with for newborn heart patient's families. Learn more. ...
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 ...
Medical Animation: Valvular Regurgitation
The heart is a beating muscle that pumps blood throughout the body. Inside the heart, four valves open and shut ...
Medical Animation: Prenatal Heart Circulation
The heart and circulatory system of a fetus begin to form soon after conception. By the end of the fifth ...
Providing Hope Through a Continuum of Care
St. Louis Children’s and Washington University Heart Center offers patients and families medical and emotional support. ...
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 ...
Medical Animation: Congenital Heart Defects
Congenital heart defect is the term given when one or more defects in the structure of the heart are present ...
Missouri 5-Month-Old Survives Heart-Lung Transplant
On May 23, cardiologists at St. Louis Children’s Hospital’s Heart Center performed the transplant on Jack, making him the youngest ...