HOUSTON (May 9, 2022)
Anne Briggs-Cheng didn't think she could get pregnant, but when she finally did, the baby got sick. Several doctors told her the baby wouldn't survive. But, not this Houston doctor.
HOUSTON (February 22, 2022)
The Houston Chronicle featured Dugan Chandler, a patient of Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital who went into sudden cardiac arrest after participating in a rodeo event. Christine Meliones, Pediatric & Family Nurse Practitioner with UTHealth Houston commented on Dugan’s story. ...
HOUSTON (February 21, 2022)
Dr. Damien LaPar, pediatric and congenital heart surgeon at UTHealth Houston and Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, shares with KPRC2 / Click2Houston how he can help newborns with complex heart conditions live their best possible life
HOUSTON (February 17, 2022)
In this Houston Chronicle article, you will find answers to the most common questions about congenital heart defects, including diagnosis and treatment and how parents can best support a child living with a congenital heart defect.
HOUSTON (February 16, 2022)
Pediatric cardiologist Dr. Avichal Aggarwal and pediatric and congenital heart surgeon Dr. Jorge Salazar at UTHealth Houston and Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital discuss fighting heart disease in children and the latest advancements in treatment on ABC13.
HOUSTON (February 2, 2022)
Himanshu Prasad, a Houston-area 17-year-old whose cerebral palsy and spastic paraplegia have caused him to use crutches for most of his life. After life-changing surgery with Dr. Manish Shah, UTHealth pediatric neurosurgeon affiliated with Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, he's getting ...
HOUSTON (December 20, 2021)
Kingston Murriel is a 9-year old boy who was born with a heart defect where his heart did not grow properly, causing the right ventricle to do all the work. Most of these children end up needing a heart transplant. Dr. Jorge Salazar, professor of cardiovascular surgery with McGovern Medical Schoo...
HOUSTON (November 25, 2021)
Pilot, the new Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital facility dog, was featured in the Houston Chronicle.
HOUSTON (October 13, 2021)
Dr. Nitin Tandon, with Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, talks about how the Houston Astros supported one of his patients who had a brain tumor.
HOUSTON (August 24, 2021)
Dr. David Sandberg, UTHealth pediatric neurosurgeon affiliated with Memorial Hermann Mischer Neuroscience Institute, was profiled by the Houston Chronicle for the amazing work he is doing helping children nationally.
HOUSTON (June 23, 2021)
Dr. Avichal Aggarwal, pediatric cardiologist with UT Physicians and Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, talks about the link between COVID-19 and myocarditis in teens.
HOUSTON (May 11, 2021)
Dr. Victoria Regan, VP, Women's and Children's Services, Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, talks about vaccinating kids 12 years of age and older.
HOUSTON (March 24, 2021)
Dr. Manish Shah saves the life of a University of Texas at Austin student after discovering a blood clot the size of an apple in his skull.
HOUSTON (March 23, 2021)
Dr. Jorge Salazar saves the life of an infant with a scrambled heart.
HOUSTON (March 22, 2021)
Dr. Donna Goff and Dr. Jorge Salazar talked to the Houston Chronicle about treating a twin born with half of a heart with a string of surgeries.
HOUSTON (February 25, 2021)
Dr. Jorge Salazar talks about children and heart disease.
TOMBALL, Texas (January 26, 2021)
Doctors say the 18-year-old had a tangle of blood vessels in his head the size of a plum. It caused bleeding in his brain that was the size of an apple.
HOUSTON (December 9, 2020)
If your child has had COVID-19, doctors at Memorial Hermann said you should get their heart checked before letting them get back into physical activity.
HOUSTON (September 22, 2020)
A young woman from Idaho travels to Memorial Hermann to undergo life-saving brain surgery.
HOUSTON (July 7, 2020)
After enduring 16 surgeries, this Dobie High School star athlete, Gabriel Rojas, has emerged strong to recently clinch a prized baseball scholarship at Letourneau University in Longview for Fall 2020. It was a freak accident that could have sent any young boy's life into tailspin, but instead it...
HOUSTON (June 1, 2020)
Scoliosis is an abnormal curve of the spine often diagnosed at early childhood. Dr. Shiraz Younas and Dr. Lindsay Crawford with Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital shared best treatment plans for the condition.
HOUSTON (March 28, 2019)
Pediatric neurosurgeon Stephen Fletcher, DO discusses addressing spina bifida through maternal-fetal surgery and how it has impacted 8-month old Elysia.
HOUSTON (March 1, 2019)
It is no surprise that Moise was the recipient of this year’s Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s Lifetime Achievement Award, which is given to physicians who have made a lasting and significant impact in the field.
HOUSTON (January 1, 2019)
If you're like us, when you think of the typical sufferer of sleep apnea, you might imagine an older gentleman, perhaps with a beer belly. But the condition strikes all ages, and, in fact, Dr. Cindy Jon, a pediatric pulmonologist affiliated with Children’s Memorial Hermann, has seen an incr...
HOUSTON (December 26, 2018)
Christa Filak, MD, a pediatrician with Memorial Hermann Medical Group, said everyone can catch the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), but especially babies and the elderly are susceptible.
HOUSTON (December 19, 2018)
Her mother knew Tonia wouldn't be happy until they'd been able to help the other kids. No matter how impossible it seemed.
HOUSTON (December 17, 2018)
A promising young athlete from Iowa wise beyond her years recognizes the inner champion of patients at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital.
HOUSTON (December 3, 2018)
Houston disability rights activist Lex Frieden, one of the ADA’s authors, told TMC News this year that working with Bush was a defining moment in his advocacy efforts.
HOUSTON (November 19, 2018)
Nearly half of parents say they've saved leftover antibiotics that were prescribed to their children, according to a new study - and of those, nearly three-quarters then gave those medications to someone else without consulting a doctor.
HOUSTON (November 14, 2018)
Children take longer to get acclimated to a sudden temperature drop, and that's why doctors say as the weather changes, so should your child's wardrobe.
HOUSTON (October 18, 2018)
Within a month, 2-year-old Jose Gabriel traveled to Tomball and received surgery that changed his life before heading back home. Gabriel and his mother, Kerly Gabriela, were flown into Houston by HeartGift, a nonprofit organization providing lifesaving heart surgery for children around the world ...
HOUSTON (October 10, 2018)
Abigail Franklin was born with a rare congenital heart defect called Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries and is now at home recovering after that surgery. Abigail had her "Double Switch" surgery two weeks ago at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. “Abigai...
HOUSTON (October 3, 2018)
At birth, Ethan weighed 9 pounds 14.6 ounces—larger than the average newborn. After a difficult delivery at Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital, Julie Page and her husband, Brent, were told that their baby boy was born with a heart defect.
HOUSTON (September 11, 2018)
If you don't know a child with asthma, chances are, you don’t know many kids. According to a recent report from the Houston/Harris County State of Health Committee, 96,000 Harris County children have been diagnosed with asthma. Nationwide, the disease is responsible for a third of hospital ...
HOUSTON (August 29, 2018)
According to Dr. Michael Chang with Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital and UT Health, this is the time of year when cases of the illness spike, especially when kids go back to schools and day cares.
HOUSTON (August 24, 2018)
“Enteroviruses are more common in children," said Dr. Michael Chang, with Children's Memorial Hermann and UT Health. Dr. Chang said this time of year there is always a spike when kids go back to school and daycares.
HOUSTON (August 23, 2018)
The Spring Fire Department raised over $2000 with their Lip Sync Challenge Video that the firefighters decided to use to buy toys for hospitalized kids at Children’s Memorial Hermann.
HOUSTON (August 17, 2018)
Nearly one out of every 700 kids has the birth defect, but many are teased by others who don't understand it.
HOUSTON (August 14, 2018)
This summer, we have reported on hot car deaths involving kids and in the last 30 years, Texas leads the total number of deaths in hot cars by dozens more than the next highest state, according to kidsandcars.org. Robert Lapus, MD, a pediatric emergency physician with Children’s Memorial He...
HOUSTON (August 3, 2018)
At 12 years old, Joseph weighs 230 pounds, and at 5 feet, two inches is classified by the CDC as obese. Esparza decided it was time to get help and took her family to the Lamar Health Center—one of Memorial Hermann’s 10 school-based clinics.
HOUSTON (August 3, 2018)
The issue of when and if pets should be introduced to kids has been up for debate among allergists for years, but recent studies lead many to believe that the family unit can and even should include pets. Dr. Dat Tran, an allergist and immunologist at Innovative Allergy Clinic and in affiliation ...
HOUSTON (July 31, 2018)
A 3-month-old baby who underwent surgery at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital for a congenital heart defect is now back home with his family.
HOUSTON (July 27, 2018)
When taken to a Memorial Hermann, the doctors immediately ordered a CAT scan that revealed a mass in Sean's brain and transferred him to Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital.
HOUSTON (July 4, 2018)
One family in southwest Houston had four reasons to celebrate this Fourth of July. Linda and Thomas Agi welcomed home their newborn quadruplets Wednesday, four weeks after they were born.
HOUSTON (June 13, 2018)
Carol Paret, chief community health officer with Memorial Hermann Health System, penned an op-ed about how school-based clinics can help move the needle on education reform.
HOUSTON (June 13, 2018)
Children's Memorial Hermann and Blue Fish Pediatrics are excited to announce a new partnership in the Greater Houston area.
HOUSTON (June 10, 2018)
National health initiative Stop the Bleed wants to educate civilians to help save lives in emergency situations before medics arrive.
HOUSTON (May 22, 2018)
Grief is different for everyone. Some may move forward without any problems, others might need therapy to get back on track and some may appear to be fine but have a delayed reaction.
HOUSTON (May 18, 2018)
Great doctors have to start somewhere, and the Houston Business Journal has identified Houston's health care scene's rising stars as part of our 2018 Health Care Heroes awards. Dr. Matthew Greives was honored.
HOUSTON (May 15, 2018)
Dr. Eckhardt has delivered more than 5,000 babies since he started practicing medicine in the early 1990s and his wife has also assisted in bringing countless numbers of new lives into the world.
HOUSTON (January 26, 2018)
Keno may never remember the week he spent in the hospital as an infant but his mother, Mimi, won’t forget. At just four months old, Keno spent five days at Children’s Memorial Hermann at Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital where doctors treated him for staphylococcal scalded skin syn...
HOUSTON (December 5, 2017)
Participating physicians and medical practices contribute 100 percent of their fees and services to HeartGift. In Houston, HeartGift works with doctors affiliated with Memorial Hermann Health System and The University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth). This year, Ilhan was HeartGift-Houst...
HOUSTON (November 16, 2017)
One of the Grant-A-Starr Foundation's key fundraising events, the annual Cure for Tomorrow Gala is a special evening and dinner benefiting the advancement of diagnostic testing to save children’s lives.
CYPRESS, TEXAS (November 15, 2017)
Memorial Hermann Cypress launched a partnership with Cy-Fair ISD this fall sponsoring GoNoodle Plus, a collection of more than 300 three- to five-minute interactive videos that promote physical activity while reinforcing concepts being taught in classrooms.
HOUSTON (November 14, 2017)
Astros shortstop Carlos Correa made a huge impact on a few dozen young patients at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital when he took some time to visit with them and take pictures and sign autographs.
HOUSTON (November 14, 2017)
A program offered through Memorial Hermann is helping low-income families get access to fresh produce that they cannot afford.
HOUSTON (November 2, 2017)
When lifelong Houston Astros fan Dustin Harbert found out his wife was pregnant, he told her he wanted to name the baby after the MVP. When he found out the baby was going to be a girl, he stuck to the plan and named her Zoe Georgia.
KINGWOOD, TEXAS (October 31, 2017)
“He’s already back to fishing. But his big hope is to go back to baseball, which we’re very very excited about," Dr. Shah said. Kingwood boy on a mission to get back to baseball after stroke.
HOUSTON (October 3, 2017)
It's not unreasonable to have such questions when a stranger in a lab coat asks you to sign a waiver and then comes at you with a needle. And many of us have had experiences that warrant skepticism about the flu vaccine.
HOUSTON (September 8, 2017)
While Houstonians were evacuating before the arrival of Hurricane Harvey, San Antonio mom Lilliana Castro was doing quite the opposite. She hopped in the car with her four children and headed straight into the storm’s path.
HOUSTON (July 26, 2017)
The Zika virus and the birth defects it could inflict have struck fear in pregnant women since the disease spread to the Americas two years ago.
HOUSTON (July 6, 2017)
Sarangoo Menjargal, 11, traveled all the way to Texas from Mongolia just to get proper treatment for the atrial septal defect she has.
HOUSTON (May 22, 2017)
A Katy teen survived a massive blood clot that developed after long flight from Asia. Annie Beirne share her story along with Dr. Stuart Harlin, a surgeon affiliated with Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital.
HOUSTON (April 17, 2017)
She keeps the crib empty. No toys, no blankets, no bumpers, and that’s exactly how baby Jackson should sleep, says Dr. Rita Muthappa, the NICU Medical Director.
HOUSTON (February 16, 2017)
The CDC says the twin birth rate has been increasing for the last three decades. In the 1980s, one in 53 pregnancies resulted in twins. Now, the statistic is one in 30.
HOUSTON (February 14, 2017)
As a parent, there are a lot of moments that make you panic, from the first fever, to the first fall. Babies make new parents worry. However, new moms in particular, experience hair loss for a completely different reason than worry. Dr. Pamela Berens, of Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, expl...
HOUSTON (December 12, 2016)
Dr. Anthony Johnson, Co-Director of The Fetal Center at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, shares a procedure and treatment that helps save a set of twins.
HOUSTON (September 21, 2016)
Doctors across the nation are getting ready but the CDC advisory committee has recently made a big recommendation that will affect many of you who dread "the needle".
HOUSTON (September 19, 2016)
Childhood obesity awareness month takes place in September, shedding light on the fact that one-third of American children and teens are overweight or obese.
HOUSTON (August 30, 2016)
Dr. Martinez sees patients ages newborn and up, providing focused care for a number of illness including diabetes and hypertension.
HOUSTON (August 10, 2016)
Situated along West Lake Houston Parkway near the intersection of Will Clayton Parkway, the Memorial Hermann Medical Group Pediatrics primary care center will serve as a medical option for families needing pediatric medical care in the neighboring communities.
HOUSTON (May 11, 2016)
Pediatrician’s Krystal Batchelor, D.O., Linda Dang, M.D., Lisa Ecroyd, M.D., Lauren Shepard, D.O., and Brooke Swearingen, M.D., are anchoring the Memorial Hermann Medical Group’s newest primary care location in Katy.
HOUSTON (April 25, 2016)
Federal and state health officials are warning about a steady and unexplained rise in the number of babies born with gastroschisis, a birth defect in which a length of intestines protrudes through an opening in the abdominal wall.
HOUSTON (September 14, 2015)
Dr. Pacheco was among a group of individuals recently honored by The White House as “Champions of Change” for her work to protect public health from carbon pollution.
HOUSTON (August 20, 2015)
A test revealed a large aneurysm, one that, Dannenbaum says, would have been difficult to operate on conventionally.
HOUSTON (May 11, 2015)
Dr. Blackwell discusses risk factors for preterm birth. Houston has one of highest rates of premature births in the nation, a problem experts say could reflect a lack of access to care and high levels of obesity.
HOUSTON (November 1, 2014)
Dr. Potts graduated from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and provides highly personalized care for newborns to age 18.
HOUSTON (January 7, 2014)
Thanks to a generous $50,000 gift, MicroSeismic, Inc. will help Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital and the department of Otorhinolaryngology at UTHealth Medical School provide hearing aids to a number of underprivileged pediatric patients in the greater Houston area this January and for m...
HOUSTON (September 24, 2013)
Read about how Dr. Gretchen Von Allmen gave a toddler with epilepsy a new chance at life.
HOUSTON (November 25, 2011)
Pediatric gastroenterologist Kalpesh H. Thakkar, M.D., has joined Memorial Hermann Medical Group Multi-Specialty Clinic Sugar Land.
HOUSTON (February 17, 2011)
A readily available, inexpensive drug therapy showed a significant benefit in treating premature infants with the worst and historically most difficult-to-treat cases of retinopathy of prematurity.