With summer around the corner and school almost out, kids everywhere will be enjoying many fun activities including pool outings, barbecues and fireworks. It also means parents and kids need to be aware that kids are at higher risk of severe injury or death. A report by the National Safety Kids Campaign found that May […]

Led by several widely published pediatric cardiologists from the Children’s Hospital of Michigan part of the Detroit Medical Center (DMC) and the Wayne State University School of Medicine, an international group of pediatric heart specialists has achieved a major breakthrough in predicting which children with dilated cardiomyopathy will recover healthy heart function with medications and […]

When Bridget Leonard, R.N., director of Patient Care Services, Nursing Office Operations at DMC- Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan, noticed her 13-year-old youngest daughter, ChyAnn, had developed a swollen face in 2011, her instincts told her that she should be evaluated for lupus. The busy mother of seven children, who was diagnosed with lupus five years […]

Scheduled to air Friday, May 23, at 10 p.m. (EST), the segment will feature ABC’s David Muir interviewing Dr. Rosenberg about groundbreaking developments in brain imaging genetic research in pediatric obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and anxiety. “Unlike the rest of us, children with OCD never get the all-clear signal because abnormalities in the brain’s light […]

Newly published findings by nationally recognized pediatric cardiologist Dr. Steven Lipshultz provide “very hopeful” evidence that survivors of often fatal ailment can regain “normal size and function” of disease-damaged areas of heart. After two decades of arduous research, a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded investigator at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan (CHM) at the Detroit […]

DETROIT, Mich, May 6, 2014–A major new pediatric clinical trial, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), has “major implications” for the treatment of urinary tract infections (UTIs) in millions of American children, according to a Children’s Hospital of Michigan pediatrician-researcher who […]