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There is growing recognition that as many as one-third of children who develop cancer have a predisposition based on a variety of criteria. Those include: ...

Learn more about Liby Peterson's journey to find a heart transplant with St. Louis Children's Hospital. ...

10-year-old Cassidy McPartland’s smile lights up a room. And it’s that smile and sweet demeanor that has helped make her fundraising venture for St. Louis Children’s Hospital called “Perfect Pencils” so successful. ...

Instructions to Complete an Individual Health Care Plan (IHP) Section I: Identifying Information — Provide detailed information Student’s Information Parents/Guardians Information Physician’s Information Hospital Information School Nurse Information Section II. Medical Overview — Complete ...

A trauma center focused only on kids: Kids are not just mini adults — so their emergency care should be treated accordingly. A Pediatric Trauma Center is distinguished from other facilities in that it guarantees the immediate availability of specialized pediatric clinicians. ...

The ear has three distinct parts: the outer, the middle, and the inner ear. Sound waves first travel through the outer ear, into the ear canal, and then vibrate the eardrum. The eardrum is connected to three tiny bones in the middle ear. The vibration ...

There are a wide range of symptoms and types of autoimmune encephalopathies as well as many different causes. Learn more about the treatment of autoimmune encephalopathies from The Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis (MS) & Demyelinating Diseases Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital. ...

Ependymomas are also glial cell tumors. They usually develop in the lining of the ventricles or in the spinal cord. The most common place they are found in children is near the cerebellum. ...

Freiberg's disease is a rare disease in which one loses bone tissue of the bone connected to one's 'big toe'. This somewhat rare disease is usually found in children between the ages of 12 and 20 who are active in athletics. ...

Portal hypertension is abnormally high blood pressure in the portal vein, which supplies the liver with blood from the intestine. Portal hypertension may be due to increased blood pressure in the portal blood vessels, or resistance to blood flow through the liver. ...