No matter the surgery, preparing for an approaching surgery can be stressful and frightening for you and especially your child. But with some age-appropriate teaching, reassurances, and support--that ...

A Canadian hospital is pausing scheduled tonsil and adenoid surgery for patients under 18 after two children who underwent the procedure died just after being discharged, officials said last week.

Texas Children's Hospital in North Austin becoming known for surgery to reroute the intestines in children with SMA syndrome.

This summer, a team at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and WashU Medicine Heart Center successfully performed the first living ...

The newborn was struggling to breathe. Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in July with Pierre Robin Sequence, a rare craniofacial condition that consists of upper airway obstruction, the 3-day-old baby girl ...

Pediatric domino transplants are almost unheard of, making this case particularly significant in the field of pediatric ...

NEW ORLEANS – Ochsner Children’s has achieved a major milestone by performing the first robotic-assisted pediatric spine deformity surgery in Louisiana and the Gulf South. This recently completed ...

(HealthDay News) — Race and procedure type impact 30-day morbidity in pediatric patients undergoing urologic procedures, according to a study published in Pediatrics. David I. Chu, MD, from The ...

A team at Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare’s Children’s Hospital of Illinois became the first in the world to implant an extravascular implantable, cardioverter-defibrillator in a pediatric patient ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A pediatric hospital in Austin is the first in the world to offer robotic spine procedures with advanced assistance. Dell Children’s Medical Center North Campus announced in a news ...

Inspire ® Procedure is the first FDA-approved sleep apnea treatment for children with Down syndrome who are unable to use a CPAP. MemorialCare Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach completed ...