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Signs and Symptoms of a Staph Infection
Staph aureus can cause infections with skin and soft tissue infections being the most common type of staph infection seen in the community.
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‘Brighter Days’ Ahead for Brielle, Whose 8-Year Transplant Wait is Over
Finally, after 8 years, a healthy small bowel was available for Brielle’s transplant.
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Toddler Diagnosed with Extremely Rare Cancer Receives Life-Saving Bone Marrow Transplant
James McCarthy, now 3, was diagnosed with an extremely rare and aggressive form of leukemia, juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML).
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Blás is a Champion When it Comes to Bowel Management
Once they arrived at Lurie Children’s, Blás was diagnosed with an imperforate anus, a birth defect where the anus is not fully developed or is blocked.
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After Dog Bite, Plastic Surgeons Reconstruct Jaysen’s Ear
Jaysen was four years old when a friend’s dog lunged off a couch toward him, biting off part of his right ear. Jaysen and his family went to Lurie Children’s for treatment.
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George Can See, Thanks to Lurie Children's Physicians
The daughter of a blind mother and a legally blind godmother, Heather Sullivan grew up “witnessing the blind living in a sighted world,” she says.
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