Everything You Need to Know About Fall and Winter Vaccinations – Q&A with Seattle Children’s Pediatric Infectious Disease Research Group

As summer starts to cool down, parents are all too familiar with the return of back to school prep and fun fall activities. While families are busy checking off school supply lists and spending more time indoors through the chillier months, it might be easy to overlook the preventive care to help keep children safe […]

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Family’s Pursuit of Hope and Better Medical Care Leads Them to Seattle Children’s

Seattle Children’s providers are leaders in brain tumor care and research, offering some of the most advanced treatments, neurosurgeries and clinical trials of any children’s hospital. Its Brain Tumor Program is the largest in the Northwest and one of the largest in the world. In this edition of On the Pulse, one Seattle Children’s patient shares […]

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The Next Generation of Researchers: SCRI Summer Scholars Program Provides Path to Science Careers

This story is part two of an On the Pulse series. Read part one here.  Seattle Children’s Research Institute (SCRI) is one of the nation’s leading pediatric research facilities, with talented investigators who have made stunning breakthroughs in their ongoing efforts to help every child live a full, healthy life. Working to inspire and develop […]

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Seattle Children’s Experts Explain Why Kids and Teens Should Avoid Energy Drinks

Childhood is a dynamic time of discovery and exploration. It’s important however, for parents and caregivers to ensure that children are exploring in healthy and safe ways. When it comes to establishing positive nutrition habits for youth and teens in particular, parents often have many questions about caffeine intake, and more specifically about energy drinks. […]

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Seattle Children’s Patients Get VIP Experiences at MLB All-Star Game

As a part of the festivities leading up to the MLB All-Star game, hosted in Seattle on July 11, two Seattle Children’s patients, Isaac Williams and Tiago Viernes, got once-in-a-lifetime experiences thanks to MLB and MLB All-Star partners Dairy Queen (DQ) and Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals (CMN). Each year, MLB invites a guest that has […]

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Spotlight on Invent@SC’s Future Biotech Leaders: Meet Seattle Children’s Dr. Edward Song

Founded in 2022, the Invent at Seattle Children’s Postdoctoral Scholars Program is a first-in-the nation postdoctoral training program that aspires to develop novel therapeutics at Seattle Children’s. The program is an investment in training talented early career scientists historically underrepresented in biotech in the development of therapeutics for childhood diseases. It seeks to improve the […]

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Top 5 Things to Know about Malaria, According to a Seattle Children’s Infectious Disease Researcher

Eight cases of locally acquired malaria have been confirmed in Florida and Texas this summer, marking the first time in 20 years locally transmitted cases have been seen, and decades since malaria was officially eradicated in the United States. Although about 2,000 Americans are diagnosed with malaria each year, those cases are linked with travel […]

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