Past research has shown that very young kids gain no educational benefit from handheld devices. A new study finds they might even hinder development.

Nurses are the beating heart of any hospital. In the Newborn Intensive Care Unit, which houses the youngest and tiniest patients, the job becomes even more crucial.

In light of advancing fetal diagnostic capabilities, a team of U-M physicians is working to improve the decision-making process for families facing complex decisions about their unborn child’s care.

An unpreventable birthmark, many port wine stains can be managed with laser treatment. How one family is doing so — and educating others in the process.

Read about how, after 16 years of fighting a rare, life-threatening disease, Derek Gropp finally met the organ donor who would save his life.

The life’s work of a Michigan surgeon demonstrates the importance of support for science research and big thinking.

Learn how to treat your child's seasonal allergy symptoms, including tips for giving allergy medication to kids, from the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

Learn how severe pediatric epilepsy led one family to a hemispherectomy — a complex and specialized surgery and why, within days of the procedure, their lives were transformed.

A friendly therapy dog provides emotional support to patients at Michigan Medicine. Learn more about the animal’s special role in the healing process.

Learn about the many ways a specially trained Mott team makes hospitalization more comfortable for young patients thanks to a host of fun tools and tricks.

With their young daughter unable to eat on her own, a family finds assistance — and, in time, sustenance — with the help of a special Michigan Medicine program.

It took a nearly seven-hour surgery (called a Kasai procedure), but one tiny patient avoided the need for a liver transplant in his first year of life.

A sick kid can leave parents at a crossroads, unsure of how to act. Two MichiganMedicine pediatricians offer advice.

A new U-M poll shows parents who struggle to get their children to eat a balanced diet aren’t alone, but there are easy ways to eat healthier at home.

Read how before birth, baby Breck’s doctors detected critical aortic stenosis - found in size in 1,000 infants - and performed fetal cardiac intervention.