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 [...]
by Erin Lyons, CPNP, CNS, MSN, CCRN The summer sun doesn’t just mean an increase in the PICU trauma census. It is also a time when we say goodbye to our senior fellows, and welcome a group of pediatricians eager to [...]
Child Life Services didn’t let the summer go by without having what was dubbed a Final Spring Fling. The summer festival took place out in the socal sun in the Child Life Playground on August 17th. The funfilled afternoon included [...]
