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Press Releases

News and announcements on our leading research and innovative, world-class care for children and expectant mothers.

April 5 Stanford and UCSF award seed funding to top device developers at pediatric device accelerator pitch competition

March 28 Seth Ammerman, MD, founder of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford Teen Van, retires

March 11 Nurse gifts guitar inscribed by Ed Sheeran to teen undergoing kidney dialysis

February 11 How a nursing perspective plus a scientific approach can refine patient care

February 4 Squaring off against cancer on World Cancer Day

January 7 Stanford Children’s Health chief information officer receives Healthcare CIO of the Year Award

November 15 Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Stanford Children’s Health earn 2018 HealthCare’s Most Wired award

November 5 Stanford Children’s Health names Paul King president and CEO

November 1 Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children's Health launch online second opinion program

October 09 Children’s hospital appeals to FDA for permission to perform unusual surgery to save a 12-year-old girl

September 07 Christopher Dawes: A trailblazer for children’s health

August 29 The future of surgery has arrived in a newly opened center at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford

August 20 Stanford Children’s Health joins intensive outpatient care program for teens with severe mental health challenges

August 16 5 Questions: How Stanford research is making MRI scans safer for kids

August 2 Google Glass helps kids with autism read facial expressions, Stanford study finds

July 16 Key social reward circuit in the brain impaired in kids with autism, Stanford study shows

July 10 Stephen Luczo joins board of directors at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford

June 28 Cynthia Brandt Stover named new president and CEO of Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health

June 7 Blood test for pregnant women can predict premature birth, Stanford-led study reports

April 23 Pediatric obesity, depression connected in the brain

April 19 Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford becomes the West Coast’s first LEED Platinum children’s hospital

April 16 Altered immune cells clear childhood brain tumor in mice

April 2 Marissa Mayer joins board of directors at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford

March 26 Tad and Dianne Taube commit $20 million to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford

March 13 Nationwide leader in pediatric transplant, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford performed 117 pediatric organ transplants in 2017

March 5 Researchers identify renegade cells that portend relapse in children with leukemia

February 13 Pioneering immunotherapy to find and kill elusive cancer cells in children at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford

February 7 Newborn baby girl at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford is first in Western U.S. to undergo bloodless open-heart surgery

January 31 Tad and Dianne Taube gift $14.5 million to launch youth addiction and children’s concussion initiatives

January 24 Board of directors at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford appoints Sierra Burnett Clark

January 24 Positive attitude toward math predicts math achievement in kids