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Baby is First Patient in Missouri to Receive Berlin Heart
McKenzi Carmack's face has magical powers. When she widens her saucer-blue eyes to a full twinkle, and adds the toothy ...
Baby Anna - Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
Baby Anna spent the first few weeks of her life in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at St. Louis Children's ...
Asher's Heart
Amanda delivered her baby, Asher, four weeks early. Weighing just 4 pounds, 7 ounces, he was quickly transferred to St ...
Anthony Bechelli - Singing a Survivor's Tune
Anthony Bechelli’s heroes are musicians like Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. He’s a musician who appreciates the classics. ...
Adiba - The "picture" of success
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that's the case, one of Adiba Islam's most recent masterpieces ...
600 Better Lives -- Sara Kate Helps Begin 12 Years
In 1987 at the University of Virginia, pediatric neurosurgeon T.S. Park, MD, sought to decrease the cerebral palsy spasticity of ...
Epilepsy Should Never Interrupt Swim Class - Elsie Lastrina
After in-depth testing, a review of Elsie’s case by the Epilepsy Board of the Washington University Pediatric Epilepsy Center at ...
Epilepsy Should Never Interrupt a Birthday - Jakrii Pearson
When Jakrii Pearson was almost 3, he began having seizures. Washington University neurologists at St. Louis Children’s Hospital discovered he ...
Emery's Second Chance: How An Organ Donor Saved Her Life
Even though Crissy Patterson was a first-time mom, as a nurse, she knew there was something not-quite-right about her newborn ...