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But Grandma Said So!

Sometimes grandparents may spoil their grandkids a little too much, perhaps to the point where it strains the relationship between ...

Patient Stories

Children’s Arrhythmia Clinic Helps Family Live Normally With Rare Heart Syndrome

Samantha Etheridge and her children have a rare, and potentially life-threatening disease called Brugada syndrome. ...

Patient Stories

Twenty-Five Years Post-Transplant, Jacques Remembers St. Louis Children's Hospital Experience

Kim Jacques recalls being a member of a very exclusive club as a teenager. Kim, who was 16 at the ...

Patient Stories

Special Patient Receives Special Care From Heart Center and Transplant Teams

Dale Robertson, born with a rare congenital heart defect, was among the first generation of patients to receive newly developed ...

Departments

Caring for Young Hearts: MRIs for Children with Pacemakers and ICDs

St. Louis Children’s Hospital now offers “in-house” magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans for children with pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators ...

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Practicing Mindfulness

Instill mindfulness in your child from an early age. Mindfulness means being aware of what’s happening in the present as ...

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Tantrum or Meltdown?

Crying, screaming and yelling occur during both, yet a tantrum and meltdown are not the same thing. ...

Departments

St. Louis Children’s Hospital Catheterization and Electrophysiology Labs Receive National Accreditation

St. Louis Children’s Hospital’s catheterization (cath) lab received accreditation from the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC), becoming among the first in ...

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Back to School Scaries

Even if your child has never been prone to anxiety, it’s been a weird year. That could make going back ...