Children’s Hospital of Michigan became the first hospital in Michigan and one of a handful of hospitals in the country to successfully treat a child using a combination of surgery and “heated chemotherapy” to treat rare tumors in the abdomen. Andrew Curtis, a six-year-old boy from Warren, Michigan, received the treatment after a biopsy confirmed […]

The summer season has arrived bringing barbecues, pool parties and unfortunately fireworks injuries. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates approximately 8,600 individuals are treated in the emergency rooms yearly due to fireworks injuries. Since 2011, Michigan consumers can legally buy more powerful fireworks such as firecrackers and some consumer-grade devices such as bottle rockets, […]

Caitlin Deluna, of Rochester Hills, was a happy, healthy baby when she was born in 2007. But her mom, Melissa, started to question that all was not right with her baby girl at age 2. “I noticed her left eye rolled away from her face a couple of times, and a couple of days later […]

After collecting data on a leukemia-affected family for nearly a decade, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center (DMC), Hematologist and Wayne State University School of Medicine Professor of Pediatrics Madhvi Rajpurkar, M.D., joined an international team of genetic researchers in an effort to track down a mutation partly responsible for causing the disease. Their […]

Michelle and Willie Barford of Westland welcomed their first child Taylor in 2005. Taylor was a happy, healthy baby but when she was 3-years-old, they decided to take Taylor in for a hearing test. “Taylor was not speaking clearly. Even though her newborn hearing screening was normal and we could understand some of what she […]

The Children’s Hospital of Michigan at the Detroit Medical Center (DMC) is among the best in the country in eight pediatric specialties according to the new U.S. News & World Report’s 2015-16 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings. The Children’s Hospital of Michigan is nationally ranked in: Cancer, Cardiology & Heart Surgery, Gastroenterology & GI Surgery, Neurology […]