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.

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.

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

Printed simulations of lifelike body parts allow surgeons-in-training the opportunity to practice complex surgeries before assisting with the real thing.

A high school golfer with the severe congenital heart condition, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, is getting his own Masters moment, thanks to Make-A-Wish Michigan.

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.

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 newly launched multicenter study analyzes the use of emergency mechanical circulatory support among critically ill children with cardiovascular conditions.

U-M is recruiting parents and children for a unique opportunity: paid participation in a national study of healthy brain development.

The condition that affects a young “Stranger Things” actor has recently captured public attention. It also has inspired a child with the same condition.

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.