Kim Arthur interviewed music therapist David Knott to find out how he uses music to help patients. He naturally turned to his musical instruments to explain.
Take a tour of the grounds surrounding Seattle Children’s with Jeff Hughes, grounds and sustainability manager.
The Biofeedback Clinic helps adolescents with chronic pain take back their lives. Using a variety of mind-body techniques — including guided visualization, progressive muscle relaxation and deep breathing — adolescents learn to control their pain.
Asthma is a blockage of bronchial tubes in the lungs caused by inflammation and swelling of the bronchial tubes, and spasm of the muscles surrounding the bronchial tubes. Find out more about asthma and current research being done by Dr. Jason Debley.
What does a 300-pound high-school football player with appendicitis have in common with a tiny newborn with the birth defect gastroschisis? Children's general and thoracic surgery providers can give both the care they need.
Seattle Children's is pushing to expand the number of disorders screened for in newborns — and to improve the tests that diagnose them.
A young researcher is developing a noninvasive tool for small children that will improve clinicians' ability to diagnose and treat asthma earlier.
What is autism, what may be the cause, and what research is being done? Dr. Bryan King, director of Child Psychiatry at Children’s, answers some of the simple and more complex issues surrounding autism.
At 16, Josie was the president of her sophomore class. Her life changed when her friend lost control of her car and Josie lay in a coma for 11 days.
Injury and trauma are the leading cause of death among children, teens and young adults. Learn about injury prevention and the changes being made each day to help your children lead healthier lives.
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears — once thought to be primarily an adult injury — now are routinely seen in Children’s pediatric orthopedic clinics as the length of sports seasons increase and the level of play intensifies.
Alethea Bloedel’s newborn skin was dusky at six weeks, an indication of a heart problem. One in every 100 children is born with a heart defect. Read more about infant heart disease.
No one appreciates the perseverance behind medical research more than Kari Foss, a member of Kentwood High School’s volleyball team, who was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at age 2.
After a bone marrow transplant, 6-month-old Emily Behrens needed assistance weaning from morphine. Tiny pressure beads on her earlobes and minuscule needles at her wrists eased Emily’s withdrawal symptoms.
Children’s is fortunate to have the Gates Foundation as family partners. “We support Children’s so we can join in the thrill of scientific discovery, but it goes deeper than that...”
Linda’s daughter, Geneva, was born in 2001 with spina bifida, a condition in which the spinal column is not fully closed and the spinal cord is incompletely formed. Without surgery, Geneva would have been paralyzed from the waist down by age 3.
A playroom stocked with toys, bedside games, and our Teen Zone equipped with Xbox and foosball makes Children’s a place where kids can be kids. Read more about Children’s facilities and activities.
A high-school football player collapses at a game; a teacher suffers a heart attack in her classroom. Thanks to the automated external defibrillator (AED), both make full recoveries.
Cancer and its treatment can have serious long-term effects on health that are sometimes not evident until later in life. ACCESS is our follow-up program for childhood cancer survivors and their families.
Ji Hyun Lee is a nurse practitioner in the Cancer program at Children’s. One visit with a pediatric cancer patient changed her entire career.
Deaf and hard-of-hearing infants enrolled in appropriate early intervention services by 6 months of age are likely to have normal language and cognitive development. Have an audiogram as early as possible so that your baby can be consistently exposed to language.
"A chronically ill child presents a challenging journey for a family, but through partnering with the medical teams at Children's we have been able to truly experience the joys of being parents."
If a problem is detected during a routine ultrasound screening, an obstetrician (OB) can refer the patient to Children’s Heart Center specialists for a complete fetal cardiac evaluation.
Pioneering organ transplant surgeon Dr. Jorge Reyes directs transplant services at Children’s and the University of Washington Medical Center. He is also a professor and chief of the Division of Transplantation at the UW School of Medicine.
Children’s recently welcomed Dr. Simon Horslen, a pediatric hepatologist in the Division of Gastroenterology. Dr. Horslen, who came from the University of Nebraska where he was the medical director of the pediatric transplant program, will help lead the expansion of Children’s transplant program.
Children’s comprehensive epilepsy program is designed to meet more than just medical needs. “We realize the entire family is impacted by a child’s illness and we are here to try and help them through it.“
Though Children’s Hospital has been a leader in pediatric heart surgery for decades, the program took a quantum leap forward two years ago when heart surgeon Dr. Gordon Cohen agreed to lead the team.
Children’s multidisciplinary approach to cleft lip and palate provides an ideal environment for an infant with a cleft. A craniofacial pediatrician oversees the care of each child, creating a treatment plan tailored to the child’s condition and then coordinating care among the other specialists on the child’s care team.
"When a child’s heart beats too fast," says Dr. Jack Salerno, Children’s electrophysiologist, "we can use radiofrequency ablation to cauterize a small area of tissue that prevents the irregular heartbeat from recurring."
With cardiac catheterization, doctors use the bloodstream to get to the heart. Doctors make an incision in a vein near the groin, then insert a flexible hollow tube called a catheter.
Children’s diabetes self-management program has received a stamp of approval by the American Diabetes Association (ADA). Read more about the ADA Education Recognition program.
It’s the most common cause of life-threatening infections in newborns in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but most pregnant women have never heard of it.
A lot has changed over the last two decades in the treatment of bone tumors. As recently as the early 1980s, amputation was the standard of care and survival rates for cancerous bone tumors were less than 50%.
About one in every 100 babies born in the United States has a heart defect. Most of them will need treatment or surgery.
When the kidneys are damaged through infection, injury or defect, the natural healing process is disturbed. Dr. Allison Eddy studies the cellular and molecular processes that regulate how the body’s tissue responds to injury.