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How to Talk to Your Kids, Tweens and Teens about Racism
Conversations about racism between parents and children should start early and continue frequently.
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Pediatric Neurosurgeon Halts Baby’s Seizures with Minimally Invasive Brain Surgery
For Aurora's condition, a hemispherotomy (sometimes also referred to as hemispherectomy) was the recommended surgery.
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Nathaniel: Waiting for a New Heart During a Pandemic
Nathaniel has been an inpatient in the Regenstein Cardiac Care Unit since mid-February, waiting for a donor heart.
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After Urology Surgery at Just Three Months Old, Henry is “Perfect”
Stefanie clearly remembers how tense she felt when an abnormality surfaced during her baby’s 20-week ultrasound, showing that her son had a swollen kidney.
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NAM Therapy Brightens Carter’s Smile
Kimberly and Bill received alarming news following a 20-week ultrasound for their first child: their son would be born with a bilateral cleft lip and cleft palate.
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“Just Hang in There”: Brain Tumor Survivor Shares Hope in Coloring Pages
As a last resort, Molly’s doctor ordered an MRI. The results showed something Molly and her family never expected: a golf ball-sized benign tumor on her brain stem.
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