Though hand-washing is the best way to clean hands, gel hand sanitizers are a good alternative when soap and water aren’t available.
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5 Things Parents Should Do After Their Child’s Autism Diagnosis
Following an autism diagnosis, families experience a wide range of emotions, including fear, frustration, loneliness, and confusion.
New Process Leads to Safer Breast Milk Handling
CHOC Children’s is seeing fewer breastmilk feeding errors after a more than two-year initiative to redesign the process.
Young Love: A Lesson for Parents
Parents may dread the day their kids start developing romantic feelings, but it’s a normal part of development, a CHOC psychologist says.
Crawling, Walking and Hip Disorders
Orthopaedics diagnoses and treats conditions of the musculoskeletal system, including bones, joints, muscles, tendons and ligaments.
How ECMO Can Save a Child’s Life
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) can help save children with critical cardiac or pulmonary disease.
Autism and Stem Cell Research: Past and Future
CHOC researchers and scientists study Autism Spectrum Disorders to find the causes and develop effective treatments for these disorders.
Raising a Child with Autism: What I Wish I Knew Sooner
A nurse practitioner shares what she’s learned as a nurse caring for children with autism, and also as a mother of a child with autism.
Helping Adolescents and Young Adults Cope with Cancer
Adolescents being treated for cancer face issues including fertility preservation, career and education considerations, and more.
Investing in care: Generosity from a grateful CHOC family
Charlotte’s family was inspired to give back to Dr. Chang and the division of metabolic disorders as a special way of saying “thank you.”
Keeping A Close Watch
Keeping a close watch on Children with epilepsy at our four-bed inpatient epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) at CHOC at Mission Hospital.
The Gift that Keeps on Giving
Varla and Curtis Knauss are members of the Circle of Life Society, forging a relationship with CHOC that will last a lifetime.
