Watch: Robert’s sweet video to sister, Isabel
“You are an inspiration to me and everyone who knows you.” We can’t handle Robert’s sweet video message to his little sister, Isabel, your Patient…
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Meet Samantha and Nicholas, your Patient Heroes for Food Allergy and Asthma Research
Siblings Samantha and Nicholas are two peas in a pod. They both love spending time with their grandmothers, joking around with one another, and taking…
Just two months after his double-lung transplant, David was breaking out the dance moves at our Hospital Prom
Yee-haw! Dressed in their best country attire, hundreds of current and former patients, family members, hospital staff, and volunteers hitched a horse-drawn carriage to the…
2016 Report on Giving
Thank You Notes (Spring 2017)
Every day, donors like you make gifts of all sizes to build a healthier future for children and expectant mothers. Your support makes our hospital…
Immunotherapy: New hope in treating cancer
Listen to the podcast There’s a new kid on the block in cancer treatment. Actually it’s an old kid who’s been around for awhile but…
Bad for the bone: The toll of childhood chronic disease
Mary Leonard, MD, is pointing at a spine MRI scan of a young adult who had a bone marrow transplant in childhood. “That vertebra is…
Stanford scientists describe stem-cell and gene-therapy advances in scientific symposium
Using stem cells and gene therapy to treat or cure disease may still sound like science fiction, but a recent scientific meeting here emphasized all…
Even Wondergirl Needs Heroes
GABRIELLA: The day before Giselle’s 3rd birthday, we came to Packard Children’s. She had been sick for two weeks, and we wanted more extensive testing…
Unleashing Cancer Immunotherapy Against a Diabolical Disease
It was in 6th grade that Crystal Mackall, MD, associate director of the Stanford Cancer Institute and professor of pediatrics (hematology/oncology) and of medicine at…
