Children’s Center - July 2017 Archives

After suffering her first epileptic seizure at just 10 days of age, Grace Chan required six separate brain surgeries as surgeons worked to remove the harmful tissue that was causing her seizures.

An ear infection (acute otitis media) is most often a bacterial or viral infection that affects the middle ear, the air-filled space behind the eardrum ...

A leukemia treatment that uses a patient's own cells to boost immunity and fight cancer has been forwarded for approval by a U.S. Food and ...

Lisa Strike was only 26 weeks into her pregnancy. So when she began experiencing contractions while visiting family on Easter Sunday 2015, she initially chalked ...

Wilms' tumor: An overview Wilms' tumor is a rare kidney cancer that primarily affects children. Also known as nephroblastoma, it's the most common cancer of ...

Can you get sick by swimming in public pools? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says outbreaks of a parasitic infection called cryptosporidia are being ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My 7-year-old daughter has sleep terrors. What causes this, and when can we expect them to be finished? ANSWER: It’s hard ...