Five-Year-Old Texan Confronts Lawmakers About Healthcare Funding
A five-year old North Texas child with Leukemia recently visited Capitol Hill. His family and Children’s Medical Center in Dallas wanted to put a face on healthcare funding for kids.
View ArticlePopulation Growth Bringing Uninsured Children To Affluent Counties
The population explosion in North Texas’ has brought a growing number of children without health insurance, and some of the counties affected come as a surprise.
View ArticleDollhouse Maker Builds Happiness For The Holidays
Ken and Cecilia Christopherson are channeling Saint Nick in a very real way. Part treasure hunter, part master craftsman, Ken builds dollhouses from scratch. Each one takes 100 hours to construct, and...
View ArticleWidespread Flu In North Texas For The Holidays
Dr. Jeffrey Kahn at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas says the ER has been flooded with young flu patients over the past two weeks."We’re seeing so much influenza right now that we are no longer...
View ArticleFrom Tents To Towers: The Growth Of Children's Medical Center Of Dallas
If you rode a wagon down what is now Oak Lawn in April of 1913, you would have passed four large canvas tents. There, beneath the shade of the oak trees, what looked like a campsite was actually the...
View ArticleChildren's Medical Center #1 In Orthopedics, Other DFW Hospitals Nationally...
U.S. News & World Report has released its annual hospital rankings, and several North Texas systems can boast nationally recognized specialties. But Children’s Medical Center in Dallas has...
View ArticleIntroducing A New KERA Series: A North Texas Boy Grows Up After Cancer
For all the breakthroughs in cancer care over the last few decades, sometimes the best treatment just doesn’t work. That’s what happened to 6-year-old Jude Cobler of Plano.
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