Amani, a 19-year-old Wayne County teenager, became the first patient at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan DMC to receive a haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT), a procedure, also known as a half-match bone marrow transplant (BMT). The BMT team at Children’s Hospital of Michigan used the haploidentical HSCT approach pioneered by Johns Hopkins Hospital […]

Sidhartha Tan, M.D., an award-winning pediatrician, professor and medical researcher in Chicago, joins the DMC and the Wayne State University School of Medicine Dr. Sidhartha Tan has accepted an appointment as the division director of Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine at the DMC’s Children’s Hospital of Michigan and Hutzel Women’s Hospital, professor of Pediatrics at the […]

The Children’s Hospital of Michigan at the Detroit Medical Center (DMC) is among the best in the country in four pediatric specialties according to the new 2016-17 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings. The Children’s Hospital of Michigan is nationally ranked in: Neurology & Neurosurgery, Nephrology, Orthopedics and Cardiology & Heart Surgery. The U.S. News Best Children’s […]

The end of the school year often marks the end of a guaranteed meal for almost half of Detroit’s children. In Southeast Michigan, more than 300,000 free or reduced fee breakfasts and lunches are served daily during the school year. The Children’s Hospital of Michigan Professional Nurse Council at the Detroit Medical Center (DMC) is […]

When 10-year-old Nielyn, spent time in the doctor’s office over the years to try to discover the source of her occasional breathing problems as well as vomiting and stomach issues, her mother Sandy became frustrated that a definitive diagnosis was not made as to what was causing her daughter’s health issues. Nielyn had several tests […]

According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, every year, more than 40,000 Americans injure their eyes during sports and recreational activities such as baseball, basketball and tennis. Approximately one-third of those eye-injury victims are school-aged children. Reecha Bahl, M.D., ophthalmologist on staff at Children’s Hospital of Michigan, says playing sports is great for kids but […]