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An experienced runner who’d traveled around the globe to race, Randy Pentis was used to seeing courses lined with gawking onlookers. But this? This was something else entirely. He was chugging along

Sometimes, the early signs that a child is ill can be so subtle, a family may not realize what’s happening—until later, with hindsight. For one family from Bishop, California, one of the first

A dying 3-year-old boy. A desperate email. A stranger’s astonishing gift. They were flying down the 101 freeway through Santa Barbara—the kids in the back seat, Chris at the wheel, and Holly next to

An unconventional treatment at CHLA heals a fluke injury, and helps a baseball phenom get back on track.

When it comes to baseball, “heart” is one of those intangibles in a player that scouts covet. Generally, the word refers to a variety of attributes including hustle, mental fortitude, patience and

It was an innocent question, one for which Meredith had the good fortune of not knowing the answer—otherwise she wouldn't have asked it: "What are labs?" After a week of fever for her 4-year-old

Please, let this be an infection. Please, an infection—not leukemia. Those were the words running over and over through Nina’s head on April 12, 2013, as she sat by her 3-year-old son Alex’s bedside

First, he wiggled his fingers. Then he wiggled his toes. Now, he moves his head side to side, and he furrows his eyebrows when he doesn’t agree with you. For 3-year-old Ali Al-Mutawa—and for his

A quartet of teenage siblings makes CHLA happier, one song at a time To many, they’re The Runaway Hamsters—a talented band of child musicians who sing country pop and strive to help those in need. To