Articles tagged with 'Syndrome' | Checkup Newsroom

NBC 5 helped us kick off Epilepsy Awareness Month last night with a feature story about a Cook Children’s patient who’s now three years seizure free thanks to a groundbreaking clinical trial.Miller Queen suffers from a severe and …

A rare but serious health condition related to COVID-19 is now affecting children in North Texas. Since May 9, four patients have been treated at Cook Children’s Medical Center for Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C). The children …

Fortunately, kids with COVID-19 have been relatively mildly affected up to this point. However, as we progress through the pandemic, we are learning more about some rare exceptions. COVID-19 has now been associated with a syndrome in children …

It may sound like an outdated illness of the past, but toxic shock syndrome is still a very real, frightening condition that nearly took the life of a 15-year old Michigan girl. The story of Rylie Whitten has recently made national headlines. Her …

Alyssa is 13 years old, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at her. She’s one of only a handful of children in the world who, for some unknown reason, do not age. “Until a couple years ago, no one could tell us what she had. …

Marc Mazade, an Infectious Disease specialist at Cook Children’s, first heard about Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) at a presentation last year. While Dr. Mazade says the attack rate of MERS seems low compared to other …