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Dr. Daniel Forsha Receives Funding to Study Skeletal Muscle System in Teens with Single Ventricle Circulation

Dr. Forsha’s study, “A comprehensive and non-invasive assessment of skeletal muscle in adolescents with single ventricle circulation,” focuses on adolescents who have had the Fontan procedure (the third of...

Pairing hearing aids

Help you and your child learn how to better utilize your hearing aids. Below you will find resources to different hearing aid companies on how to pair your hearing aids to phones and other Bluetooth...

Wise Use of Antibiotics: Antibiotics in Short Supply

As pediatric prescribers, it is important to know how to make periods of antibiotic shortages easier to navigate for ourselves and the families we serve.

Two Children’s Mercy Researchers Named Frontiers CTSI FY23 KL2 Scholars

Two Children’s Mercy Researchers received the FY23 KL2 Mentored Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health (National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences) via a University of...

4 ways to keep your Independence Day sparkling and safe!

Independence Day often includes sunshine, celebration and sparklers. Unfortunately for some, it could also include an emergency room visit due to a firework injury. In 2020, the American Academy of...

Visual Diagnosis: Drowning

10-month-old male evaluated after drowning event at neighborhood pool.

Heart Murmurs: Evidence Based Strategies

An estimated 50%-80% of children will have a cardiac murmur at some point in their life, but less than 1% of these murmurs will correlate with serious congenital or acquired heart disease.

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Dr. Vivekanand Yadav Receives Funding to Study Gene Mutations of Lethal Pediatric Brain Tumor with Goal of New Potential Therapies

Dr. Yadav’s study, “Epigenetically activated ID1 is a key transcriptional regulator of DIPG invasion and is targetable with cannabidiol,” will explore the gene responsible for the lethal pediatric brain...

Don't Forget About MenB

MenB vaccines have the lowest administration rates of the vaccines available for adolescents in the United States.

Link Newsletter - June 2023

Our June issue features the latest news and updates on pediatric care from Children's Mercy clinicians. We want to hear from you! Do you have ideas, questions or suggestions for future articles in The...

Mental Health: Grace and Nate's Story

Children’s Mercy is committed to caring for every aspect of children’s health — physical, mental, emotional and behavioral.   As we continue to shed light on the importance of mental health care and...

Children’s Mercy and Ugandan Collaborators Receive NIH Funding to Test a Novel Communication Strategy to Promote HIV Testing

The project “Enhancing communication on relationship preservation, safer conception and PrEP to promote HIV testing,” received a 3-year $632,187 Formative and Pilot Intervention Research for Prevention and...

Treatment Options

Hormonal Forms of Treatment Progesterone only method: Norethindrone Acetate 10 mg daily; does not act as contraception; goal is amenorrhea while taking Estrogen & Progesterone method: Sprintec...

Outbreaks, Alerts and Hot Topics: Parapertussis

Bordetella parapertussis was recently detected from clinical specimens submitted to the microbiology laboratory at Children’s Mercy Kansas City. Unlike many respiratory infections, summer infections with...

Rehabilitation Acupuncture Clinic

Rehabilitation acupuncture specialists bring pain relief to patients Rehabilitation specialists at Children’s Mercy are certified to administer acupuncture therapy as part of patients’ personal treatment...

Concussion Management and Follow-Up

Management and Follow-Up...

Fluid Choice and Blood Products

These pathways do not establish a standard of care to be followed in every case. It is recognized that each case is different, and those individuals involved in providing health care are expected to use...

IV Escalation Plan

References Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (2023). Immediate IV access, IV escalation plan. https://www.chop.edu/clinical-pathway/sepsis-immediate-iv-access-iv-escalation-plan-ed-inpatient-picu Weiss...

Link Newsletter - May 2023

Our May issue features the latest news and updates on pediatric care from Children's Mercy clinicians. We want to hear from you! Do you have ideas, questions or suggestions for future articles in The...