Baby Leah’s journey: ‘I knew she was special from the beginning’
Leah underwent multiple surgeries before she was 5 months old so that she could share her big personality and infectious smile with the world.
Children’s Minnesota Stories
Read health tips from our experts as well as stories by patients, families and staff about kids’ health and their experiences at Children’s Minnesota.
Five Question Friday: Meet Sarah Hromatka
Sarah works at Children’s Minnetonka campus, which offers a wide range of services including surgery, radiology/diagnostic imaging, endocrinology/diabetes, ENT, gynecology, neurosurgery, audiology, and physical, occupational and speech therapies for families in the west metro.
Adjust clocks, sleep for daylight saving time
With daylight saving time in spring, clocks move ahead one hour, which makes 2 a.m. Sunday 3 a.m., literally in no time.
Children’s Minnesota PPB, OTST research has worldwide impact
Both registries seek to understand what causes these rare tumors, how to find them earlier and how to target and cure these tumors more effectively and with fewer long-term side effects.
Quick everyday health tips to remember
Children's Minnesota is your primary source for wellness and preventive care for children and young adults.
Help find patient’s lost stuffed cow
Hammy has been with Hannah Kiresuk through more than 30 surgeries and 300 days of hospital stays.
Rock the Cradle — a free day of family fun
As winter slowly makes an exit, get your family out of the house and enjoy a day of music, dancing, art and fun.
Heart surgeries save life of little Roland
Kara and Ryan Jaehnert learned before their son's birth that he had a congenital heart defect.
Measles and how to protect against it
Measles is caused by a virus. Sometimes people say “it’s just a virus,” which ignores the fact that some of the most dangerous germs we know are viruses, measles included.
Children’s Minnesota helps transform pediatric heart care in India
A new partnership between the pediatric cardiac teams at Children’s Minnesota and Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences in Kolkata aims to shorten that distance and reduce some of the disparities.