Thank you for making the 4th annual Summer Scamper 5k, 10k, and kids’ fun run our most successful event yet! Nearly 3,000 participants joined us at Stanford on June 22 for the sold-out event and...

Set to open in 2017, our hospital’s expansion will include 149 new patient beds, six new surgical suites, 3.5 acres of healing gardens, and more. To date: 6,150 cubic yards of structural concrete...

The next time you play Angry Birds, consider this — the same type of sensors that capture movements on your phone are also playing a role in biomedical research to make sports safer for children. For...

A diagnosis of childhood autism can be shattering news for many parents. But when doctors at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford confirmed that 6-year-old Lucas had autism, his mother,...

Peyton Fisher loves her brother Morgan, wants to be a princess, and decorates her cupcakes with excessive chocolate and marshmallows. In most ways, she is a typical 3-year-old. But for a while, she...

The developing brain is a particularly complex organ, an interconnected network of cells that controls everything we experience, do, or say. If this intricate system goes awry — from disease,...

Short home videos may become a powerful tool for diagnosing autism, according to a study by Dennis Wall, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics in systems medicine at the Stanford University School...

One year ago, Jessica and Jesse Vega watched a team from Packard Children’s work to save their son Dominic’s life in the back of an ambulance. Just days earlier, the Vega family had been at home...

Meet Karina Karina Barreto-Delgado was sitting in her high school English class on a typical Friday morning, taking a test, when the call came. For six months, the 15-year-old resident of Visalia,...