A cutting-edge surgery could fix a 12-year-old's scoliosis. Her insurance says it's too new to cover.

Surgeons who perform a type of spinal surgery for scoliosis, which the FDA approved in 2019, say insurance companies aren’t ...
Erie News Now

Dr. Pahys Officially Appointed as Chief of Staff at Shriners

Shriners Children’s Erie has appointed Joshua Pahys, MD as its new chief of staff. Dr. Pahys has been part of the Shriners ...
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Children's Hospital Colorado pioneers first-of-its-kind cranial surgery for kids

The Scripps News Group caught up with Dr. Phuong Nguyen to learn how this new procedure could help children with craniosynostosis. AURORA, Colo. — A pediatric surgeon at Children's Hospital Colorado ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana

New guidance: Use drugs, surgery early for obesity in kids

Children struggling with obesity should be evaluated and treated early and aggressively, including with medications for kids as young as 12 and surgery for those as young as 13, according to new ...

This high-risk surgery gave their daughter a chance. They found it in Fort Worth

Anna Claire Beavers was born with two conditions that gave her slim chances of survival without a high-risk surgery.