On Dec. 26, 2018, 18-year-old Hannah Nash, an avid basketball player, was hit in the head while at basketball practice. She initially felt a sharp pain and her head felt foggy. She recalled leaving practice abruptly. The next day, she played in a game, but she didn’t feel like herself. “I played terribly,” Nash said. […]
In celebration of Black History Month, On the Pulse spoke with Dr. Yolanda Evans, an adolescent medicine specialist at Seattle Children’s, about simple yet powerful ways we can encourage and teach kids to become activists in their community what this month means to her. Engage your kids in conversation It starts with role modeling and […]
While the human brain has over 400 miles of total vasculature, little is known about the tiny capillaries that make up much of this intricate labyrinth of blood vessels critical for delivering oxygenated blood and nutrients to billions of brain cells. According to Dr. Andy Shih, a principal investigator in the Center for Developmental Biology […]
When the economic and social impacts of the coronavirus pandemic began taking root in early spring 2020, the team at Seattle Children’s Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic (OBCC) immediately anticipated the devastation and hardship it would bring. “From the start, we recognized that the families we serve were being disproportionally negatively impacted by the virus itself, […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Feb. 5 approved Bristol Myers Squibb’s Breyanzi, a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy used to treat adults with certain types of large B-cell lymphoma who have not responded to or who have relapsed after standard treatments. The approval was supported by research at Seattle Children’s, including the […]
On New Year’s Eve of 2019, Sierra Landman learned she was pregnant with her first child. “We were so excited,” Landman said. “Then we learned that something wasn’t right with our baby’s heart.” Nevaeh Landman was born on September 10, 2020 at Madigan Army Medical Center with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and immediately rushed to […]
In December 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) for COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. This was hailed as a turning point in the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, many people are hesitant about these new vaccines for a variety of reasons, and the proliferation of misinformation can make […]
[smartslider3 slider=6] Seattle Children’s is dedicated to becoming an anti-racist and equitable health organization. To realize this vision, we’ve adopted a long-term comprehensive plan with our Anti-Racism Organizational Change and Accelerated Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Plan. This plan was designed with the guidance and support from our patients, workforce, community and trusted expert leaders on […]
Doctors at Seattle Children’s are investigating whether a simple liquid biopsy containing a small amount of fluid from a patient may someday provide an easier route to a genetic diagnosis in children with vascular or lymphatic malformations. The work is a collaborative effort led by Dr. James Bennett, a clinical geneticist and co-director of the […]
For close to a decade the labs of Dr. David Rawlings at Seattle Children’s Research Institute and Dr. Marion Pepper at the University of Washington have collaborated on a project studying the immune response in malaria infections. As the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the U.S., they turned their expertise and the techniques pioneered for malaria to […]
