With an event name like “Hoops for Life,” one might assume that Amy and Shannon Aldridge’s fundraiser is a basketball event, not a 5k walk and run. But the 6th annual Hoops for Life 5k held in Cape...
The Wang family is truly one in a million. Born in October 2010, quadruplets Audrey, Emma, Isabelle, and Natalie Wang entered the world with the help of our team at the Charles B. and Ann L. Johnson...
Building bridges: The role of interpreter services in our hospital
In a bright room within the neurosciences clinic at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, 24-year-old Kirandeep meets with her neurosurgeon, Michael S. B. Edwards, MD. As Edwards speaks to...
Have you heard of World Wrestling Entertainment’s newest WWE Superstar, Drax Shadow? Standing at a mere four feet tall and weighing just over 50 pounds, this 8-year-old is a formidable force to be...
There are many treatments, therapies and drugs for cancer, but sometimes a day of pampering with friends is just what the doctor ordered. That’s why nine teenage girls being treated for cancer at...
The hospital school’s prom celebration is called an “event to look forward to, not because the kids are in the hospital, but because they deserve to be regular kids.” The transformation of a hospital...
Food allergies are a peculiar disease. Unlike other life-threatening conditions, the people they affect are completely healthy unless they are exposed to the allergen. They and their families live a...
It Takes a Village: Rallying Support to Cure Food Allergies
Nine years ago, David and Kori Shaw moved to Palo Alto with their 3-year-old daughter, Keegan, and 1-year-old son, Carter. Along with the usual adjustments of relocating—new job for dad, new...
As Jennifer Rowe’s 40th birthday was approaching, she knew she wanted to do something special to celebrate. “I thought about it and decided that the most meaningful thing for me to do was to give...
Ever since 3-year-old Effy (a cancer patient) first came to our hospital in July 2013, her beloved stuffed monkey Nunny has been with her for every treatment. Now, Nunny is missing, and the community...
