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About a year ago, 36 men met on the soccer field at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois, in an attempt to break the Guinness Book’s record for the world’s longest soccer match. If spending an entire April weekend running back and forth between two goals ...

St. Louis Children’s Hospital offers a pediatric diabetes program that provides a comprehensive approach to the treatment of diabetes in children. To learn more about our diabetes program for children, call 314-454-KIDS (5437). ...

2025 Pediatric Telephone Triage Conference Agenda: 7:45 a.m. Registration and Breakfast 8:30 a.m. Welcome Randall Sterkel, MD, FAAP Medical Director, St. Louis Children’s Hospital Answer Line 8:45 a.m. Don’t Be ...

Who are Child Life Specialists? ...

What is cancer? Cancer is not just one disease. Rather, it’s a group of diseases, all of which cause cells in the body to change and grow out of control. Cancers are classified by the kind of fluid or tissue from which they come from. ...

In 1989, Gregory Storch, MD, medical director of pediatric infection control at St. Louis Children's Hospital, saw his first case of a child infected by an HIV-positive mother. Unfortunately, this wasn't an isolated case but the beginning of an epidemic. ...

The St. Louis Children's Hospital Teen Life Council (TLC) is sponsored by the hospital's Child Life Department. The mission of the Teen Life Council is to make St. Louis Children’s Hospital a better place for teen patients by advising the hospital staff on issues important ...

St. Louis Children’s Hospital (SLCH) is one of only a few pediatric facilities in the country—and the only one in the St. Louis region—to offer robotic surgery for children needing urologic procedures. In most of these cases, the children experience less pain and heal faster ...

What is Pediatric Liver Cancer? Childhood liver cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the liver. The liver is one of the largest organs in the body. It has four lobes and fills the upper right side of ...

What is school refusal? School refusal, or school avoidance, is a term used to describe the signs or anxiety a school-aged child has and his or her refusal to go to school. School phobia can be seen in different types of situations, including: Young children ...