Research
National medical journal features Cook Children’s role in studies of breakthrough epilepsy treatment
Children and teens with Dravet syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy, have new hope following treatment with an investigative therapy that alters the effects of the genetic abnormality responsible for their …
A pioneering collaboration between Cook Children’s Health Care System and The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) is paving the way for research that will shape pediatric brain health and treatment now and for generations, while also building …
Just weeks before Sarah Ellen Beavers was due to give birth, she still did not know where she would deliver her first child.
She and her husband, Zach Beavers, spoke with numerous hospitals, but none would take them. Most …
Running around too much or getting too hot used to trigger seizures several times a week for 8-year-old Sebastian Ruiz.
But since he started new investigational treatment through a clinical study at Cook Children’s, the …
By Amber Kaiser
Piper Francis, 17, has been playing softball with lifelong friends since second grade, but last year, she noticed she was having difficulty breathing during practice. She saw multiple doctors who prescribed her asthma …
