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Check twice to make sure your child doesn’t have access to button batteries. It could save her life. During the holidays, light-up toys and greeting cards that play music or sound can bring a smile to your child’s face. The button batteries you find in ...

Children with severe pulmonary hypertension (PH) who have failed medical therapy have limited treatment options and often die from right heart failure. A surgical procedure known as a Potts shunt is an old technique that is showing promise as an alternative therapy for treating children ...

What is mosaicism? Mosaicism is when a person has 2 or more genetically different sets of cells in his or her body. Chromosomes are stick-shaped structures in the middle of each cell in the body. Each cell has 46 chromosomes grouped in 23 pairs. A ...

After being assaulted by several classmates in the girls’ restroom of her high school, Erica, age 17, was treated in the emergency department at St. Louis Children’s Hospital (SLCH). She suffered a concussion, sustained injuries to her back, and her eye took quite a beating ...

Transient tachypnea of the newborn is a mild breathing problem. It affects babies during the first hours of life. ...

Samantha Etheridge and her children have a rare, and potentially life-threatening disease called Brugada syndrome. ...

Both venomous and nonvenomous snakes can bite. In the U.S., snakebites most often occur between April and October. Even a bite from a nonvenomous snake can cause an infection or allergic reaction in some children. ...

In 1958, a 2-year-old named Debbie contracted polio. The youngest of six, the toddler was sent from her home in Pinkneyville, Illinois, to St. Louis Children’s Hospital, where she was quarantined from family and friends, as was the practice at that time. It’s a traumatic ...

We treat every type of brain and spinal tumor in children, from gliomas to medulloblastomas. Learn about different types of brain tumors. ...

There are many situations that do not require urgent attention...if your symptoms are flaring for 1-2 days, we may not act immediately. It is not uncommon for us to wait to act until the symptoms have been occurring for 3 or more days. These May ...