Every day at Stanford, new research is improving outcomes for children with cancer. By studying everything from cancer’s minute cellular interactions to the clinical results of groundbreaking...

Barbara Sourkes and Harvey Cohen are retiring as pioneers in pediatric palliative care. When Harvey Cohen, MD, PhD, was chief of staff at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and chair of...

Transforming Patient Care: Using VR to Help Kids Cope with Difficult Medical Procedures Featured Speaker: Tom Caruso, MD Episode 01 | 32 minutes February 1, 2021 “[Through using immersive...

When a child has a mental health need—whether it’s a little reassurance at bedtime or coping with a behavioral disorder—parents can be their child’s best ally, says Mari Kurahashi, MD, MPH, clinical...

"Stress is not all bad," says Victor Carrion, MD, the John A. Turner, MD, Endowed Professor for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and director of the Stanford Early Life Stress and Resilience Program...

As kindergarteners and first- and second-graders settled into in-person learning this fall at San Francisco's Tenderloin Community School, Stanford pediatrician Irene Loe, MD, launched a research...

Six-year-old Caroline stepped up to the pole festooned with yellow, orange, and pink streamers and grabbed the rope attached to a very special golden bell. As she pulled the cord and the bell clanged...

In 1991, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford opened its doors thanks to a $70 million donation from Lucile Packard, an advocate for the health of children and expectant mothers, and her...

Pediatric Transplant Program Receives Top Recognition Stanford Children’s Health is ranked as a national leader for pediatric organ transplantation, according to recent data from the Scientific...

Did you know that medical devices designed for children lag well behind adult technologies? To speed up pediatric medical device research and development for the youngest patients, the Frederick...