Childhood obesity is a significant national epidemic, with approximately 20% of children and teens in the U.S. classified as obese. This condition, if untreated, leads to severe comorbidities such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea, and cardiovascular diseases, among others. Adolescents with severe obesity often carry these health issues into adulthood, doubling their risk of premature death before age 55 compared to their non-obese peers.
There is a misconception that palliative means end of life care. But that's not how we think about palliative surgery at all. Palliative surgery...
Cook Children's pediatric gastroenterologist, Clifton Huang, M.D., shares fascinating insights into the advancing treatments and procedures, including endomicroscopy, that are bringing new hope for...
Vice President, Chief Research Officer, William Stigall, MD, MA, shares the frontier-pushing pediatric research happening at Cook Children’s and its power to improve the...
