Today is PURPLE for PLATELETS day! photo by BruceBlaus. Platelets are small cells in the blood stream that are critical for allowing our blood to clot and allowing tissue damage to heal. Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is a disorder characterized [...]
“I’m shaky,” Leo says. “Kind of nervous.” Leo has good cause to be, as he holds the hand of his wife, Lorena, of 15 years. She is giving birth to quadruplets. On September 28th, Harbor-UCLA and Harbor Pediatrics welcomed babies [...]
Every month, 25 THOUSAND children will be diagnosed with cancer around the world, and 6,667 families will experience the loss of a child from cancer. On the positive side, in the United States we now cure more than 80% of [...]
Vaccines should be seen, for all of the herd Preventing diseases that can’t be cured Last century in these United States Kids died young and at very high rates First on the scene were dip and tet Good health for [...]
The Carson Kids Health Fair was a complete success. Harbor Pediatrics residents gathered hundreds of dollars of donated school supplies for kids who spent their summer at Mills Park in Carson, California. There were backpacks, notebooks, paper, coloring books, glue, [...]
