All CHLA Blog Stories

As a father of two handsome boys, I was faced with the decision to have my boys circumcised or not. This was a tough one to make as a father who only wants the best for his boys. So what is a

“Oops.” That was the best Bianca Celis could muster after learning that the email she had sent off to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles went far north of the target her father intended. “My dad, he was

Eleven-year-old Savannah Fulkerson loves Disneyland, water parks, trips to the beach and swimming in her backyard pool. The energetic Santa Clarita sixth-grader, though, can only do those activities

One day I was sitting on our family swing and I asked my teenage boy, Christopher, “What's your earliest childhood memory?” To my surprise it was not the many trips we did as a family, it was of him

Jake Olson lives by a simple mantra: “Nothing is impossible.” Those three words are especially fitting for the 18-year-old who graduated high school with a 4.3 GPA, plays college football, aspires to

Maceo Alvarez likes a lot of sports—but nothing compares with his love for football. “He’s like a football addict,” his mother, Monique Esparza, says. “You get to catch, you get to run, you get to

Meet Ella, a 4-year-old fighting hepatoblastoma, an uncommon liver cancer, at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

Meet Grace, a 5 year old battling acute lymphoblastic leukemia at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

A few CHLA patients had a special visit to the L.A. Zoo in advance of Dreamnight, a global initiative bringing together institutions that care for children with their local zoos.