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St. Louis Children's Hospital explains the key differences between headaches and migraines and the symptoms they cause in children. ...

As teenagers’ brains develop, they need nutritious food and sound sleep to grow into healthy adults. ...

What is Shprintzen-Goldberg syndrome? Shprintzen-Goldberg syndrome is a rare condition affecting many parts of the body. It involves a disorder of the connective tissue, the material inside your body that supports many of its parts. Shprintzen-Goldberg syndrome is also marked by unique facial features and ...

Recognizing the importance of athletics in the lives of children and adolescents today, Washington University and St. Louis Children’s Hospital have established the Young Athlete Center that specializes in treating this growing patient population. Located at the St. Louis Children’s Hospital Specialty Care Center at ...

Read more about Michelle Stecher's lifelong struggle as a congenital heart disease patient. Learn more about her experiences with St. Louis Children's Hospital. ...

Children need plenty of fluids to thrive, but what kind and how much? According to Marilyn Tanner, RD, a Washington University dietitian at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, milk and water are the best choices. But many children clamor for juice instead -- so what’s a ...

Latex balloons are festive and colorful, but they are also the leading cause of choking deaths in children in the U.S. About 38 percent of all toy-related choking deaths reported between 2001 and 2014 involved balloons. ...

Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction, also known as dysfunctional voiding, is a condition that affects many children and is generally not a serious problem but is certainly a nuisance. Dysfunctional voiding is generally felt to be a dis-coordination between the bladder and the bladder outlet. ...

Every day, 300 children are taken to emergency rooms because of hot-water burns. In fact, burns are the second leading cause of death for children under age 5—in part because their skin is so much thinner than that of an adult. “Whereas adults could sustain ...

Neurosurgeon T.S. Park, MD, performed his 4,000 selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) surgery at St. Louis Children’s Hospital for Ivy, a 7-year-old girl from Australia. ...