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What’s New With RSV, COVID-19, and Flu Shots for Kids

Stanford Childrens

As children are back in school and the days get chillier, it’s a reminder to protect our families against viruses this upcoming season. Palivizumab is approved for children under 24 months of age with certain conditions that place them at high risk for severe RSV disease. This must be given once a month during RSV season.

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Following Their Calling to Help Young Cancer Patients and Beyond

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They both felt a calling to go to nursing school. What are the odds that not one, but two of us got contacted years after nursing school?” Stem cell transplants are used to treat people with life-threatening blood cancers, immune disorders, blood diseases , and metabolic conditions.

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THE PITFALLS OF 'MORE, YOUNGER' MINDSET Why Starting Kids Too Early and Pushing Them Too Hard Can Backfire in Youth Sports

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Parents and coaches, bombarded with stories of children being offered collegiate scholarships in middle school or making national-level teams at age ten, feel an impetus to accelerate their own childrens development. As children grow older, this conditional approval can encourage a cycle of anxiety and fear of failure.

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Young Man Becomes First in World to Be Cured of FSGS With New Treatment

Stanford Childrens

While your friends are traveling on a bus to a school game or hanging out at the mall, you are at home or at a dialysis center tethered by cords, every day for at least three hours. Dialysis for kidney failure was a killer, but I refused to give up school, choir, or tennis, even though I was always very tired.

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Sleep Lesson Plans For Students

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Importance Of Sleep Lesson Plans For Students In the hustle and bustle of school and life, it’s easy for students to underestimate the importance of a good night’s sleep. Research has found that 73% of high school students don’t get enough sleep based on the 8-10 hours recommended for 14-17-year-olds.

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Celebrating Women in Medicine

Stanford Childrens

Most of them spend their lives in a limited state because their health condition impacts everything—school, activity, their ability to be with friends,” she says. Her parents tried to cajole her to change her mind all the way through medical school and into her first two years of medical residency.

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Preteen Saves Her Own Life by Catching Rare Cancer Early On

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She had a close family and lots of friends, enjoyed school, played sports, and had tons of energy and good health. Her cell counts steadily climbed after she was discharged, and five months after discharge, her immune system had recovered enough to allow her to return to in-person school to finish out her fifth-grade year.