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Most children have questions and fears about surgery. At WakeMed, their questions are answered and their fears are calmed in an effort to reduce their recovery time. Like many 5-year-olds, Ari Brown ...

A surgery that helps 7- to 10-year-olds with cerebral palsy walk also helps older kids and teens with the condition, a groundbreaking study shows. "We had thought that the older kids would not do as ...

Hartnick is a pediatric airway surgeon at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School. He was two months old and already living on borrowed time. The baby, born in El Salvador, had never ...