-
Patient Story
Bridget's Story: The Prima Ballerina
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2021/02/Bridgets-story-The-prima-ballerinaIn September 2020, Bridget, a 12-year-old dancer from Westfield, Massachusetts, landed on her left knee while performing a front aerial, an acrobatic move she had perfected many times before.
-
News
Care Inspires Patient's Sister to Pursue Medicine
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2021/02/Care-inspires-patients-sister-to-pursue-medicineLauren is an aspiring doctor studying pre-med at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her interest in medicine developed at a young age, when Lauren accompanied her sister on appointments to the Boston Shriners Hospital.
-
News
Shriners Hospital Mexico treats scars from burn sequelae
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2021/02/Trata-el-Hospital-Shriners-Mxico-cicatrices-por-secuelas-de-quemadurasShriners Hospital began using this treatment in September 2018, and has performed over 250 procedures to treat patients with multiple scars, using fractional CO₂ laser therapy
-
News
Shriners Hospitals for Children Joins Jesse Little for Multiple Races
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2021/02/Shriners-Hospitals-for-Children-joins-Jesse-Little-for-multiple-racesJesse Little and BJ McLeod Motorsports announce today a partnership with Shriners Hospitals for Children for the 2021 NXS season, starting at Daytona International Speedway on February 13, 2021.
-
News
Stopping Pain From the Inside
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2021/02/Stopping-pain-from-the-insideWhat if, instead of addressing post-surgery pain with a pill or IV drip, a patient’s own cells could be triggered to prevent it? This is one of the goals of a new field of medicine created by investigators with the Research center at the Shriners Hospitals for Children — St. Louis.
-
News
Shriners Hospitals Wants Children and Families to "Be Burn Aware"
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2021/02/Shriners-Hospitals-wants-children-and-families-to-Be-Burn-AwareFebruary 7-13, 2021 is Burn Awareness Week. During this time, Shriners Hospitals for Children will promote its annual burn awareness and prevention campaign. Since the 1960s, Shriners Hospitals for Children has been a leader in burn care, research and education, and burn injury prevention is a key c...
-
News
COVID-19 Restrictions and Recreational Youth Sports
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2021/01/COVID-19-restrictions-and-recreational-youth-sportsIn California, youth recreational sports are still on pause for much of the state. While guidelines released back in August 2020 allow recreational sports to conduct modified skill-building conditioning and training, full-contact and normal competitive matches are still on hold.
-
News
As Families Defer Pediatric Doctor Visits, Scoliosis Diagnoses May be Missed
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2021/01/As-families-defer-pediatric-doctor-visits-scoliosis-diagnoses-may-be-missedAs a physician, I am concerned about how the reduction in preventative care today will affect the state of our public’s health tomorrow. As an orthopedic spine specialist, I am especially concerned about how the current pandemic will affect preteens who are in the early stages of developing adolesce...
-
News
Care From Routine to Rare
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2021/01/Care-from-routine-to-rareOn a Tuesday afternoon late last year, Lindley Wall, M.D., checked on the progress of Chloe, a teenager whose broken arm she repaired after a tubing accident on the Lake of the Ozarks. A day later, J. Eric Gordon, M.D., charted the next steps in treatment for Camille.
-
News
Shriners Children's Texas Awarded Healthy Kids Healthy Families Grant
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2021/01/Shriners-Childrens-Texas-awarded-Healthy-Kids-Healthy-Families-grantShriners Children's Texas announced it was awarded a Healthy Kids, Healthy Families® (HKHF) grant by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX).