Are your household hazards 鈥渒id-proofed?鈥� It might sound silly, but one of the first things pediatrician Colleen Kraft, MD, tells families to do once their child is around 6 months old is crawl around the floor of their home: 鈥淧retend you're that 6-month-old. What looks interesting and dangerous to you? Because kids will beeline for that."
Before she starts to break down what parents with sick newborns should look for in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), neonatologist Rachel Chapman, MD, says she first needs one key piece of information.鈥淚t depends on why you need a NICU,鈥� she says鈥攎eaning, how serious is your baby鈥檚 condition? Dr. Chapman is Medical Director of the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation Newborn and Infant Critical Care Unit (NICCU) at Children鈥檚 Hospital Los Angeles.
Ronald Ferdman, MD, MEd, Chief of Clinical Immunology and Allergy at Children鈥檚 Hospital Los Angeles, shares his advice on symptoms, diagnosis, and management and prevention tips for asthma.
The road to sobriety is jagged and unpaved, with potholes and craters that can make it hard for those traveling on it to move forward.The Substance Use Prevention and Treatment Program at Children鈥檚 Hospital Los Angeles, a part of the hospital鈥檚 Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, recently offered its teen and young adult patients a unique treatment method as they try to steer straight.
When a newborn opens their eyes for the first time, new parents wonder, 鈥淲hat exactly does my baby see?鈥� Melinda Chang, MD, Attending Physician in the Vision Center at Children鈥檚 Hospital Los Angeles, explains what you can do to help鈥攁nd protect your baby鈥檚 eyesight.
CHLA emergency medicine physician Bradley Goldberg, MD, provides guidance for families with children who have special medical needs.
Every cancer treatment that exists for children was tested in a clinical trial.Clinical research and clinical trials are the only way to develop new and better therapies for children with cancer. Pediatric research studies and clinical trials find safe and effective therapies and improve ways of preventing and diagnosing childhood diseases.
How can a seemingly healthy newborn have a genetic disorder? Kimberly Chapman, MD, PhD, Section Chief, Medical Genetics at Children鈥檚 Hospital Los Angeles explains how newborn screening works, and how it can prevent lifelong disability鈥攁nd could even save a child鈥檚 life.
Children鈥檚 Hospital Los Angeles Music Therapist Sarah Nolan, MT-BC, NICU-MT uses music to promote babies鈥� healing, development, and well-being. But parents should understand that it鈥檚 not enough to cue up a Spotify playlist of lullabies and go on to other tasks.
What happens when cancer doesn鈥檛 respond to chemotherapy? 聽A revolutionary therapy called chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy uses a person鈥檚 own immune cells that have been modified to recognize and attack cancer cells.
Hearing the word 鈥渓eukemia鈥� can be alarming in any context. Hearing it in the context of your child鈥檚 health might feel terrifying, unfair, and even hopeless.聽But according to leading pediatric leukemia experts, families grappling with the news of a diagnosis have reason to feel .Today, for a great majority of pediatric leukemia cases, a new diagnosis doesn鈥檛 mean what it meant 30, 20, or even 10 years ago.
Could your family handle an unexpected earthquake tomorrow? What if a wildfire forced you to evacuate with only minutes to spare? How would you ensure your children鈥檚 safety and well-being in such chaos?Natural disasters strike with little warning, making it vital for families to prepare ahead of time鈥攅specially when kids are involved.
Children's Hospital Los Angeles developed work-study jobs for college students interested in medical careers
For nearly two decades, Children鈥檚 Hospital Los Angeles has been among the highest-volume centers in the country for robotic surgery in children鈥攑erforming approximately 850 robot-assisted surgeries since 2008. Pediatric Urologic Surgeon Edward C. Diaz, MD, is one of the many surgeons at CHLA with extensive training and experience in these procedures.
A new research study led by Jonathan D. Santoro, MD, Director of the Neuroimmunology Program at Children鈥檚 Hospital Los Angeles, shows evidence of dysfunction of the blood-brain barrier and inflammation in the central nervous system in individuals with Down syndrome Regression Disorder (DSRD).The new study, 鈥淓vidence of blood鈥揵rain barrier dysfunction and CSF immunoglobulin synthesis in Down Syndrome Regression Disorder,鈥� was published in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology on Feb.
He didn鈥檛 know it then, but when Ryan was little, his sister would dedicate her birthday wish each year to one request: that Ryan鈥檚 hemophilia would be cured. 聽Maybe all that wishing paid off. At age 22, his doctor at Children's Hospital Los Angeles told him he could be eligible for a breakthrough gene therapy treatment for hemophilia B.
Researchers from Children鈥檚 Hospital Los Angeles have created a groundbreaking prototype for a new kind of leadless pacemaker designed for both children and adults. The innovative micropacemaker鈥攃reated in partnership with USC engineers鈥攚ould be the first fully leadless system to be placed in the pericardial space surrounding the heart.
For decades, the goal of treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has been to control the aggressive inflammation that attacks the colon. Although anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) therapies have helped to better manage this inflammation in recent years, up to 70% of patients don鈥檛 respond to these drugs long-term. But what if there was a different way to attack IBD鈥攐ne that did not involve targeting inflammation? This is the work that Michael Schumacher, PhD, is leading in his lab at Children鈥檚 Hospital Los Angeles.
On any given day, nearly 20% of patients seen by the Sports Medicine team at Children鈥檚 Hospital Los Angeles are children with concussions. That鈥檚 not surprising, given that nationwide, up to 1.9 million youth a year experience this mild traumatic brain injury. At CHLA, Jonathan Santana, DO, sees many of these young patients.
When you hear the condition 鈥渂lood clot,鈥� your mind may not immediately think of your child being at risk. But Guy Young, MD, Director of the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Center at Children鈥檚 Hospital Los Angeles, says he鈥檚 seen a recent uptick of patients suffering from blood clots.鈥淥ur team treats roughly four new pediatric patients with blood clots each week,鈥� says Dr.
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