According to Gift of Life Michigan, more than 9,000 Michigan patients have received a life-saving organ transplant in the past 10 years. Many thousands more have benefited from tissue and corneal transplants. Dean Kim, M.D., chief, Transplant Services, at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan at the Detroit Medical Center, says it can be especially challenging […]

By all accounts, Carden Franklin of Pontiac, was a typical baby boy. His mom Danniqua had a normal delivery and Carden was growing into a healthy active child. When Carden was around 10-months-old, Danniqua and Carden’s father Antwuan became concerned when Carden was not acting like his normal self. “He wouldn’t take his bottle and […]

After nearly 30 years of leadership in the battle against the chronic disease in Michigan, Dr. Wanda Whitten-Shurney will now play an expanded national role in shaping federal policy and guidelines aimed at lessening the impact of the genetically triggered blood disorder. During her 29 years as a passionate clinician specializing in treating Detroit-area children […]

Just published in the Journal of Pediatrics, a long-term study initiated by the Children’s Hospital of Michigan DMC shows how more severe cases of pediatric cardiomyopathy-linked heart disease are associated with reduced “quality of life and functional status,” which can have a negative impact on families of the patients and thus contribute to poor outcomes. […]

A study published today by researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan DMC and the Wayne State University School of Medicine is bringing new hope to families of children who struggle with a common form of leukemia and thus must confront an elevated risk for long-term heart ailments caused by chemotherapy. The study in today’s […]

Published in the upcoming March 10, 2016 issue of the authoritative Journal of Clinical Oncology, this new study is likely to change the standard of cardiac care during treatment of many childhood cancer patients. After more than two decades of grueling research on a National Institutes of Health study, Children’s Hospital of Michigan Pediatrician-in-Chief and […]