Children’s Hospital

Holiday Volunteer Opportunities In Metro Detroit

Think you can’t help because you don’t have money to spare? That’s OK — you can give your time. And in some cases, that’s an even more valuable gift.

CBS Detroit–2012/11/19

Researchers Look To Lower Serious Risks To Newborns

A local study appearing in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine supports the use of whole-body hypothermia in full-term, oxygen-deprived newborns.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/05/30

Landon, 8, recovering from transverse myelitis.

8-Year-Old Paralyzed By Rare Disease Recovering Slowly

An eight-year-old Grosse Ile boy is still re-learning to walk after he was paralyzed by a rare disease. Landon Johnson couldn’t walk after the antibodies his body created to fight a common childhood virus began attacking his spine.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/01/03

Burns covered eight percent of 20-month-old Zoe's body after a home-cooking accident.

Burned Toddler Recovers In Time To Go Home For Holidays

After a tragic home-cooking accident left her severely burned, a Macomb Township toddler is leaving DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan just in time for the holidays.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2011/12/23

University of Michigan Hospital (University of Michigan photo)

UM Women’s, Children’s Hospitals Complete Move

As the last patient cleared a designated 800-foot patient pathway, staff, faculty and volunteers broke into cheers, tears and many, many hugs.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2011/12/05

New electro-physiology room at new U-of-M C.S. Mott Children's Hosp. (WWJ: Pat Sweeting)

Mott Children’s Hospital In Ann Arbor To Celebrate Opening

A new state of the art hospital in Ann Arbor will celebrate their opening and incorporate a high tech football star on Sunday.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2011/11/01

Rare Disease Temporarily Paralyzes 8-Year-Old

Landon’s doctor says he developed Transverse Myelitis … a condition where the antibodies produced to fight one illness, even the common cold, turn on the body and attack the spine.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2011/10/28