Published on August 23, 2018
17-bed project will help create capacity during peak months
LOS ANGELES – Last winter, the United States experienced one of the worst influenza (flu) seasons in nearly a decade. Thousands of children ended up in hospitals across the country, including at Children’s... Read More
Published on August 23, 2018
CHLA investigators spotlight the need to include obese and overweight subjects in metabolic research to prevent potentially misleading outcomes.
Children's Hospital Los Angeles investigators have demonstrated the need to include a growing constituency of obese and... Read More
Published on August 16, 2018
CHLA physician Dan Thomas, a former standout collegiate miler, drew on his history as a runner to help him overcome a near-fatal onset of Guillain Barré syndrome.
By Jeff Weinstock
Doctors do the darndest things. Take the one who walked right up to Dan Thomas, MD, at a... Read More
Published on August 13, 2018
Nursemaid elbow has many names: pulled elbow, radial-head subluxation, annular ligament displacement. Basically, it is when the elbow is pulled into malalignment or partially dislocated. Whatever you decide to call it, it is pretty scary the first time it happens to... Read More
Published on August 2, 2018
By Katie Sweeney
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 parents and family, and his doctors, nurses and therapists at... Read More
Published on August 1, 2018
By Bhavana Arora, MD, Medical Director, CHLA Health Network
Lisa Stern, MD, a Santa Monica pediatrician, is used to hearing her patients in late summer express apprehension about the upcoming start of school. What’s sometimes surprising is the source of the stress: their... Read More
Published on July 10, 2018
Los Angeles County’s largest and busiest emergency department for children will add 11 examination bays, new equipment and dedicated Child Life staff
LOS ANGELES -- In one of the largest donations in the history of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), an anonymous donor... Read More
Published on June 27, 2018
CHLA and USC researchers team up to design and implant a minimally-invasive device in area around the heart.
Investigators at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the University of Southern California have demonstrated the feasibility of implanting a... Read More
Published on June 25, 2018
Hospital also earns top-5 rankings nationwide in four pediatric specialty categories in U.S. News & World Report's 2018-19 annual surveyLOS ANGELES (June 26, 2018) — For the second straight year, Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) has been named the top pediatric... Read More
Published on June 22, 2018
Children's Hospital Los Angeles contributes to large, multisite international ‘Brainstorm’ Project
Investigators found that many common psychiatric disorders are deeply connected on a genetic level, sharing specific genetic risk factors, underscoring the need to... Read More
Published on June 21, 2018
A quartet of teenage siblings makes CHLA happier, one song at a time
By Matt Villano
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 Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, however, the four... Read More
Published on June 20, 2018
“We thought she had a bug bite,” says Michelle’s mom, “but it turned out to be cancer.” After seeing several doctors, the family was referred to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Because the team of specialists at CHLA had access to a specialized genetic test that they helped... Read More
Published on June 19, 2018
Community event raises more than $300 thousand to date in support of CHLA’s life-giving health care services
Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) hosted its second annual Walk and Play L.A. on Saturday, June 2, 2018, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum... Read More
Published on June 18, 2018
Seattle Children’s, with participating members Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Children’s National Health System and BC Children’s Hospital, has launched CureWorks, an international collaborative of leading academic children’s hospitals determined to accelerate the development... Read More
Published on June 7, 2018
Written by Kohl's Safety and Injury Prevention Program
It is in every parent’s interest to keep his or her children safe at all times. We tend to associate safety with areas in which we are most familiar, like our home, but did you know that about 4.5 million children are... Read More
Published on June 5, 2018
On Saturday, June 2, 2018, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles hosted its first inaugural joint Walk and Play L.A. Last year, both events were held separately and the first of its kind for CHLA.
The community event, which was held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum... Read More
Published on May 31, 2018
Andrew Cole, ORT/L, BCP, Occupational Therapist on the Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit Diana Hanley, MA, OTR/L, Occupational Therapist and Co-Director of Handy Heroes Therapy Camp Elizabeth Kpachavi, OTD, MA, OTR/L, Occupational Therapist
The inability to use one side of your... Read More
Published on May 24, 2018
LOS ANGELES -- Pat Levitt, PhD, has been named Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer and Director of The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
“In addition to being a distinguished scholar and brilliant scientist, Dr. Pat Levitt’s commitment to... Read More
Published on May 24, 2018
In the wake of the first anniversary of his newborn son’s passing, a father finds solace in skydiving and triathlon training, making sure to never be far from the loss.
By Jeff Weinstock
“Have you ever jumped out of an airplane?”
You got the wrong guy, buddy. Any... Read More
Published on May 17, 2018
By Katie Sweeney
Twelve-year-old Justin Ybarra likes to joke around, and he likes to have fun. Very rarely does he take life too seriously—even though there have been plenty of things in his life that have been plenty serious.
So when you ask him why he got along so well... Read More
