June 27, 2014
When 14-year-old Sam presented with a heart arrhythmia never before documented in the medical journals, pediatric electrophysiologist, Dr. Sunita Ferns, found herself facing the most challenging case of her career.
June 27, 2014
“They called me and told me to make a decision right away, because my daughter was near death,” recalls Kathy about the day her baby girl was born in November 1995. Kathy never imagined her full-term newborn, Rachael, would need a life-saving therapy. If it worked, Rachael would be the first neonatal patient at UNC to survive as a result of ECMO.
June 27, 2014
An interactive, multisensory workshop simulating the premature birth experience from the baby’s point of view has our Newborn Critical Care Center nurses rethinking how to provide the best care to our tiniest, most fragile patients.
June 27, 2014
Dr. Arti Pandya joined UNC Children's as chief of genetics and metabolism in late Nov. 2014. The editors of CARE recently sat down with her to learn about her plans for the division and her research passion, the genetics of hearing loss.
June 27, 2014
Jonathan is among the 1.4 percent of U.S. children allergic to peanuts. Once terrified of accidental exposure, the 6 year old now regularly enjoys peanuts as a snack, all thanks to an innovative clinical trial at UNC.
June 27, 2014
Everything in the Tamborino house is bigger—the meals, the celebrations and, without question, the affection. Parents, Norine and Frank, do everything bigger, because four of their five boisterous children—Julie, 20, Tori, 17, Catherine , 15, and Frankie, 10—have cystic fibrosis, and they know they have to make each moment count. Having been in and out of several health care systems, the close-knit family found a home away from home at UNC. This is the Tamborinos' story.
June 27, 2014
UNC Medicine's Dr. Elizabeth Fitzgerald works in Malawi to not only help the sick, but to work towards building a medical system in the impoverished nation.
June 27, 2014
Through the generosity of the Carolina For The Kids Foundation, the UNC Department of Pediatrics opened the UNC Children’s Primary Care Clinic on E. Franklin Street on July 13. The new clinic puts UNC’s general pediatric care in easier reach for patients and families and enables the expansion of pediatric specialty clinics at N.C. Children’s Hospital.
June 27, 2014
When national BMX champion Cameron Moore was injured during a recent race, an ambulance rushed him to UNC's Pediatric Emergency Department. Aching to get back on the bike and defend his title, Cameron talks about his experience.
June 27, 2014
In light of recent news reports of pediatric deaths and neurological symptoms potentially associated with Enterovirus D68, pediatric infectious diseases specialist, Ravi Jhaveri, MD, cuts through the fear with this update.
June 27, 2014
Dr. Elizabeth Estrada joined UNC Children’s as chief of pediatric endocrinology in May 2015. She recently spoke with the editors of CARE about the road that led her to UNC and the passion she’s found in combatting the nation’s childhood obesity crisis.
June 27, 2014
A grandson’s care leads Ward and Julia Marslender of Raleigh, N.C., to establish a $1 million bequest that will help UNC Children’s train the next generation of pediatric specialists in nephrology and urology.