Surgery can be a stressful experience for children and families. Feeling well prepared can help reduce anxiety, support recovery, and make it a positive experience. When a child needs surgery, it can ...

Worry and parenting go hand-in-hand, particularly when it comes to a child’s health. Most parents aren’t faced with a continual worry about childhood illnesses or diseases – until they are confronted ...

The life-saving surgery at Birmingham Children's Hospital in 2021 left him paralysed, cognitively impaired and unable to ...

Children who undergo primary congenital glaucoma surgery had better visual acuity (VA) when wearing contact lenses compared with spectacles.

For many children with scoliosis, bracing is a crucial intervention that can avert the progression of spinal deformities. Pediatric orthopedic surgeon Joshua Speirs, MD, outlines how braces are ...

Dr. Benjamin Weisenthal is the first to offer endoscopic spine surgery in East TN. It has personal meaning for him because he ...

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 ...

Millions of children have surgery every year - for everything from tonsil removal to correction of a heart defect - and understandably parents are often anxious about their child's safety and comfort.

Doctors are reminding parents to be extra careful with their children after a string of emergency surgeries in Cuba were necessary to remove foreign objects lodged in airways. The most recent incident ...

"My daughter walked into Addenbrooke's talking, and she was wheeled out non-verbal." A mother is demanding "accountability" ...

THE mother of tragic Harvey Morrison Sherratt has welcomed a Government pledge to hold a statutory public inquiry into how children with spina bifidaand scoliosis have been dealt with.