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Overuse injury nearly took pitcher Eric Olveira out of the game, but Children's sports medicine clinic helped him come back.

You'd never guess Dylan has four open-heart surgeries under his belt. Dr. Gregg Helton checks Dylan's surgically repaired heart.

 

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Children's Stories features articles that have appeared in publications produced by Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland — HandPrints, our quarterly magazine; FYI, our monthly Medical Staff newsletter and Inside Children's, our weekly staff newsletter.

• Children’s Hospital Oakland is the first pediatric medical center on the West Coast to have and use the portable CereTom CT scanner. Now patients at Children’s Hospital no longer have to be moved out of the intensive care unit or operating room to get a CT scan. [November 2007]

• Pediatric Rehabilitation clinicians helped teenager Maria Granados relearn how to walk, talk and swallow after a brain tumor left her physically impaired.

• To help Isaac Coutté survive sickle cell disease, his parents gave up their life in Panama to come to Children's Hospital in Oakland.

• Sleep lab finds sleep problems and offers solutions

• The dynamic warm-up helps young athletes excel and stay healthy

• New CT scanner is faster

• Children's Hospital Walnut Creek specialty clinic to expand cardiology and orthopaedics services

• A Children's patient asks Congress not to cut children's hospital funding for graduate medical education

• Comeback Kid: Overuse injury nearly took pitcher Eric Olveira out of the game, but Children's clinicians helped him come back

• Children's Hospital adds bottles and cans to recycling efforts

• Children's helps new drug for kids with genetic disease get FDA approval

• Sports medicine clinic moves to its own building next to the Outpatient Center

• Serving the underserved: Two doctors trained at Children's care for kids in the Chinatown and Fruitvale areas of Oakland

• Explore the new federal dietary guidelines pyramid

• When Sadie's heart first stopped, so did her active and independent life

• Medical play eases kids' fears, helping procedures go smoothly

• Volunteers at Children's are priceless

• Parent's dedication to sons recognized with Parent of the Year award

• New U.S. dietary guidelines can help keep kids healthy

• Children's docs on Best Bay Area Doctors list

• Meet Frank Tiedemann, Children's new president and CEO, as he talks about his first impressions, plans and beliefs

• Four surgeries fixed Dylan's malformed heart

• Children's scientists discover how cocoa extract can help with diarrhea

• New tech tools coming to Children's: Safer medication delivery, and faster access to x-rays and MRIs

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