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A Decline in Sports Participation: Why More and More Adolescents Are Quitting

Typically, the term burnout calls to mind someone who is putting in too many hours at work or is swamped with household chores. It isn’t necessarily something a parent expects in their adolescent. But it can happen.
13-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Growing Clinical Research for Pediatric Urology

The clinical research program in the Division of Urology focuses on improving care for children and adolescents with a range of urologic conditions—including bladder exstrophy, vesicoureteral reflux, posterior urethral valves and more.To help...
7-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

Developing New Approaches for Children With Cystic Fibrosis

Over the past decade, the advent of new medications has been a game changer for many children and adults with cystic fibrosis (CF). But while these therapies can significantly enhance lung function, they are not a cure—and not all patients are...
5-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Pediatric Neurologist Honored With Prestigious Research Award

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) neurologist Shafali Spurling Jeste, MD, has been named the 2024 recipient of the prestigious Martha Bridge Denckla Award from the Child Neurology Society. This award—named after a physician who pioneered...
4-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Awarded $6 Million from CIRM to Advance CAR T-Cell Therapies in Children with Recurring Solid Tumors

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has received a multi-year $6 million award from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to develop innovative stem cell approaches to treat children and adolescents with recurrent solid tumors. The...
29-Feb-2024 6:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Unveils New Fetal Cardiac Clinic

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has opened its new Fetal Cardiac Clinic, a unique space for expectant mothers and the fetal patient population to continue receiving the highest level of comprehensive care during pregnancy, birth and beyond.
13-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST Add to Favorites


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11-Jan-2024 5:05 PM EST

Neonatologist Travels to China to Share ECMO Experience

This spring, Rachel Chapman, MD, traveled to two cities in China to share expertise on one of the most complex lifesaving interventions for critically ill newborns: extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).Dr. Chapman, Associate Division Chief of...
3-Aug-2023 7:05 PM EDT

COVID-19 Vaccines: What Parents Need to Know Now

The coronavirus pandemic is no longer a national emergency, but the virus that causes COVID-19 isn’t gone—and neither is the risk of getting the disease. For parents, navigating when to get their child vaccinated and knowing how to best protect...
1-Aug-2023 9:05 AM EDT

Providing Lifesaving Dialysis for Small Babies

New technology is allowing Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to provide continuous renal replacement therapy to babies as small as 5 pounds. Providing kidney dialysis to small and fragile babies has long been challenging—with most dialysis...
28-Feb-2023 9:00 AM EST

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Bridging a Neonate With a Single Ventricle to Heart Transplant

In a rare and high-risk procedure, a 1-month-old baby became the first patient with single-ventricle heart disease to receive a ventricular assist device (VAD) at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
21-Feb-2023 2:05 PM EST

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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Leads Nation in Liver Transplants Performed at Pediatric Center

Living donation and significantly lower wait times helped the program to perform 35 liver transplants in 2022. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles leads the nation in liver transplants performed at a pediatric center, according to new data released...
17-Feb-2023 8:05 AM EST

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