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 debilitating form of...

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 range in age ...

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 know...

It may sound like an outdated illness of the past, but toxic shock syndrome is still a very real, frightening condition that nearly took the life of a 15-year old Michigan girl.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. Everyone said she was ...

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 respiratory illnesse...