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What causes facial paralysis in children? Learn the common causes for facial nerve paralysis in children from the Facial Nerve Institute at St. Louis Children's Hospital. ...

Ensuring equal access to quality health care It’s often said that two heads are better than one – the additional perspective brings another dimension to our thinking. In this manner, celebrating and embracing diversity and creating an inclusive environment are vital to our success, as ...

After a doctor orders a swallow study for a child, the study is completed in two parts, a clinical evaluation of feeding and a videofluoroscopic swallow study. Clinical evaluation of feeding The clinical evaluation of feeding (also called a bedside evaluation) is done prior to ...

The Center for Cerebral Palsy Spasticity was led by pediatric neurosurgeon T. S. Park, MD, is a world leader in developing and refining selective dorsal rhizotomy until his retirement in 2024. He is succeeded by his colleague, Jarod Roland, MD, who trained under Dr. Park ...

This month, St. Louis Children’s Hospital became the first hospital in the region to employ the use of a new generation of robotic neurosurgery technology – technology that has cut surgery time from upwards of six hours to two, and recovery time from weeks to ...

At less than 4 months of age, Evan Wells was the first patient at St. Louis Children’s Hospital to receive a heart transplant from a donor with a different blood type. It’s called an ABO-incompatible heart transplant. ...

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common type of arthritis in children. Some children have arthritis for just a few months, while others have for several years. In rare cases, the condition lasts a lifetime. The exact cause of JIA is not known, however ...

Highly trained perfusionists work closely with the cardiac care team both inside and outside the operating room, giving your child the best care possible during open heart surgery. Learn more from St. Louis Children's Hospital. ...

Children treated for moderate acute malnutrition—a condition suffered by an estimated 35 million children worldwide experience a disturbingly high rate of relapse and even death in the year following treatment and recovery. But without clear evidence that any one feeding regimen trumps another, the global ...

During a five-year period ending in 2013, 398 children ages 16 or under were taken to one of two hospital emergency rooms in St. Louis for gun-related injuries, according to a study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM). Of those children, 20 ...