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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. ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

Expert Advice

An Eye Toward Growth

Unlike adults, children’s bones are continuously growing and require specialized care from pediatric orthopedists. A twisted ankle may mean quality ...

Expert Advice

Why Weights?

Preteens can benefit from strength training, including lifting weights, but only if they use proper technique. By age 7 or ...

Expert Advice

Winter Warm-Up: Staying Active When It’s Cold

Don’t let freezing temperatures stop you in your tracks. Frost, ice and snow don’t have to stop you, your child ...

News

10 Exercises You Can Do With Your Kids to Prevent Running Injury

According to the physical therapists at the Young Athlete Center, teens are just as likely to develop running injuries as ...

Mom Docs

The Importance of Sports Physicals

It is that time of year again! Kids are heading back to school for a new year and another season ...