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The Epilepsy Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital specializes in Gamma Knife Radiosurgery, an outpatient, non-invasive surgery to treat children with epilepsy. For more information on gamma knife surgery, call 314-454-KIDS (5437). ...

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Before receiving a cochlear implant, each child is carefully evaluated, as follows: The St. Louis Children's Hospital Cochlear Implant Team works with families to determine whether or not a cochlear implant is the right option for their child. ...

Growing Strong Hearts and Minds: A webinar series on neurodevelopment for families in the congenital heart disease community “Growing Strong Hearts and Minds” is a series of virtual educational webinars hosted by the Cardiac Neurodevelopment Team at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and WashU Medicine physicians ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have received a five-year, $6.5 million grant to study the physiological underpinnings of developmental disabilities in children and to use the findings to search for novel ways to improve such children’s lives. The grant, from the Eunice Kennedy ...

An increasing number of boys and girls are playing recreational and organized sports. As a result, there is a rise in the number of overuse injuries seen among children and teens. Most sports and overuse injuries are due to injuries that affect the bone, muscles ...

Washington University neurosurgeons at St. Louis Children’s Hospital are among the first in the nation to use an MRI-guided, high-intensity laser probe to permanently destroy (ablate) brain tissue responsible for causing seizures. ...

Sports Safety Series The Washington University and St. Louis Children’s Young Athlete Center has developed a series of interactive injury prevention and educational programs designed to help improve the overall health of young athletes. We offer the programs to private groups of 15 or more ...

An upper respiratory infection is another way of saying that a person has a cold. A cold is a minor infection of the nose and throat. During normal breathing, air travels through the nose, down the trachea or windpipe, and into smaller and smaller airways ...

When sound waves reach the ear, they are gathered by the funnel-shaped outer ear and channeled into the middle ear. At the opening to the middle ear, sound waves hit the tympanic membrane, or eardrum. The resultant vibrations then travel through the middle ear and ...