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Inside Pediatrics: Season Three
Love has no limits at Children's Mercy. In season three of Inside Pediatrics, follow the amazing stories of children, their families and care team as they tackle medical mysteries, conquer childhood...
How to know if your child is truly sick
Sometimes kids know when to play the sick card. You may see random bouts of “stomach aches” and saying “I don’t feel good” both before and during school. How do you check to see if kids are really sick, or...
ERCP - State-of-the-Art Pediatrics - September 2022
ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography) can be safely performed by an appropriately trained pediatric gastroenterologist in a pediatric facility for the diagnosis and treatment of biliary and...
Food Allergies in Children
Children with food allergies have extra-sensitive immune systems that react to harmless substances called allergens in certain foods and drinks. When the person eats an allergen, like a peanut or other...
Your Child's Transplant Team
Management of the pediatric transplant patient requires the skill of many professionals trained in specialized surgical techniques, the medial care of the patient both before and after transplant, as well...
Hyperbilirubinemia - Evidence Based Strategies - December 2022
Jaundice affects over 80% of newborns. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) provides a comprehensive clinical practice guideline (CPG) for the diagnosis and management of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia.
Helping Your Child Take Medicine
Learning to take medicine can be hard for kids. Here are some ways to help your child learn: Helping Your Child Take Medicine (PDF) - English Helping Your Child Take Medicine (PDF) - Spanish Pill...
Rex Brings Sporting KC to Children's Mercy
The atmosphere at Children’s Mercy is vibrant, colorful and engaging – dedicated to letting kids be kids, even when they’re in the middle of a long-term inpatient stay or a series of hospitalizations. “We...
Pediatric Research in Infectious Disease, In Vitro Diagnostics and Epidemiology (PRIDE) Collaborative
The PRIDE Collaborative is a partnership between the Children's Mercy Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the Division of Infectious Disease.
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor: Clara's story
Meet Clara Wearing glittery pink sneakers and hugging a fluffy pink and white leopard print blanket, when 2-year-old Clara Jensen looks at you with those big brown eyes, all you see is an adorable, happy...
Support Children's Mercy Research Institute
Kids are getting left behind in pediatric research. Learn how you can help move them to the front of the line by supporting the Children's Mercy Research Institute.
Children’s Mercy Researcher Receives $2.3 Million R01 NIH Grant to Study Lung Development and BPD in Neonates
This funding will support the study of how delta like 4 (DLL4), a molecule expressed in endothelial cells, regulates blood vessel and air sac formation during normal and abnormal (bronchopulmonary...
What to Expect: Nephrology Department
Partnering with kids and teens as they grow In addition to professional partnerships, our team takes pride in truly getting to know the children and families in our care. Those close relationships, along...
Teaching kids about helping others
It’s that time of year… when our kids are making their lists and checking them twice. Full of wishes for the best new toy or the coolest new shoes. But it’s also the time of year when many parents begin to...
Acute Pain Service
Members of the pain management team work with children who are staying in the hospital through a variety of ways including: Our Anesthesiology Pain Service provides expertise in pain management...
Adelante Kansas City
Adelante Kansas City is an innovative culture and language coaching program for mental and behavioral health care providers. The name Adelante, a Spanish word meaning, “forward,” “ahead,” or “onward,”
PICU Collaboration Drives Outcomes for Complex Cases
The best of both worlds Bradley Warady, MD, Division Director of Pediatric Nephrology, shares how synergies between nephrology and intensive care unit teams are improving Acute Kidney Injury care Any...
Fridley Lab
About the Lab The Fridley lab is focused on the development of novel statistical and bioinformatic methods to answer questions that arise in cancer and pediatric research. Recently, the lab has been working...
Cerebral Palsy Family Education Day
Meet with families and have direct access to our clinicians, local vendors, parent panels, a national speaker and fun activities for the whole family.
When is the time to talk about puberty?
Puberty. We all go through it. It was a strange time for most of us and it’s still a strange time for most kids today. We can help our kids feel empowered with the knowledge to make this strange period of...