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Twenty-five years ago, St. Louis Children’s Hospital instituted the only freestanding pediatric lung transplant program in the country. Its Washington University-affiliated surgeons performed the first transplant in 1990; from then until 2003 they performed nearly half of all pediatric lung transplant procedures worldwide. ...

A creative adaptation of technology initially developed to treat adults with fluid overload has significantly improved the care of newborns with chronic kidney disease or acute kidney injury at St. Louis Children’s Hospital Newborn Intensive Care Unit. The hospital’s modified aquapheresis therapy program, launched in ...

Read more about Stevie Sipes' journey and struggle with Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH). Learn more about her experience with St. Louis Children's Hospital. ...

Dr. Perlmutter is a distinguished professor and the Vira I. Heinz Endowed Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He also is physician-in-chief and scientific director of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center ...

Julia Wynne has dealt with a wide variety of medical issues with fortitude and grace since the day she was born. The 15-year-old from Montana was born with a complex medical condition called VACTERL. ...

An adjustment disorder is defined as an emotional or behavioral reaction to an identifiable stressful event or change in a person's life that is considered maladaptive or somehow not an expected healthy response to the event or change. ...

Even before entering medical school, Holly Hoefgen, MD, Washington University pediatric and adolescent gynecologist at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, was interested in the pediatric population. ...

While working as a neonatologist for almost 30 years in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Joan Rosenbaum, MD, has seen firsthand the tremendous struggles parents experience when their child is sick. “Having a sick child is about the most ...

What is pneumonia? Pneumonia is an inflammation of the lungs caused by bacteria, viruses, or chemical irritants. It is a serious infection or inflammation in which the air sacs fill with pus and other liquid. Lobar pneumonia. This affects one or more sections (lobes) of ...

When Roberta Miller’s 7-year-old daughter, Jolene Green, required surgery to remove a tumor compressing her airway, she knew St. Louis Children’s Hospital was where her daughter needed to be. ...