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Patient Stories

Gabby's Story: Cord Blood Transplant Cures Sickle Cell Disease

This summer, Gabby Carter played on the beach. She waded into the ocean. She spent hours some afternoons in the ...

Patient Stories

Treatment of Last Resort at Children’s Hospital Saves Baby’s Life – Twice

Avory has had seven surgeries already to repair his organs. He has a birth defect, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, in which ...

Patient Stories

"Crazy" Chronic Pancreatitis

Crazy amazing. That’s how Willow Tolly describes the care she received at St. Louis Children’s Hospital over the past four ...

Patient Stories

The Risk You Have to Take

Read more about George's struggle with Influenza A and how he beat it and healed thanks to St. Louis Children's ...

News

St. Louis Children’s Hospital Announces 2017 Advocacy Award Winners

Superintendent of Jennings School District, Dr. Art McCoy and Missouri State Senator Jill Schupp honored for work to improve children’s ...

Patient Stories

Christopher's Story: A "So Fun" Surgery

When Christopher Warren was in third grade, he was asked to write a story about something that happened in his ...

Patient Stories

Cooper's Kidney Story

Before Cooper Hendrix was even born, doctors detected a defect that would affect the health of his kidneys. ...

Patient Stories

Family Moves Hundreds of Miles for Heart Care

Abigail Young spent the first eight months of her life in the hospital with heart problems. Now 2, Abigail needed ...

Mom Docs

Should You Be Hiding Foods in Your Kid’s Meal?

It seems so ingenious. Your child won’t eat a green vegetable, but she’ll eat pasta … why not hide that ...