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General surgery team is in Guatemala

For the sixth time since 2006, a Children’s Hospital team is in Guatemala City to perform surgeries on impoverished children. Visit our blog and follow the team's efforts.

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Daralyne Pierre, evacuated to the U.S. from her orphanage in Haiti, is checked out at our Infectious Diseases Clinic.

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Meet Beau

When just a few weeks old, Beau was diagnosed with a serious cranial defect.

When 11-year-old Jordan Hatcher came to the Pediatric Emergency Department, she was experiencing shortness of breath, chest and back pain and a fever. The Hatchers agreed to include Jordan in a new study at Vanderbilt and three other academic medical centers seeking answers about pneumonia. Read more >

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Vanderbilt's Fernando Polack, M.D., has been named to receive the Society for Pediatric Research's 2010 E. Mead Johnson Award. Each year the national award, given since 1939, honors two individuals for their clinical and laboratory research achievements in pediatrics. Read more >

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The American Academy of Pediatrics has long recommended that pediatricians discuss discipline with parents during well-child visits. A study led by Seth Scholer, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of Pediatrics, has found that even a short intervention can help parents develop an appropriate discipline plan. Read more >

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