The leadling story describes a search for answers, spanning from the Dominican Republic to the United States, which led to a brighter future brighter for a 3-year-old with very early onset inflammatory bowel disease.

Learn how experts are confronting the crisis of increased mental health challenges in children and teens.

Read about Sara Kathryn Smith, the Children's Center's new medical director of pediatric liver transplantation, who has a hard-won perspective on what it means to live with advanced liver disease.

In the first online edition of Hopkins Children's, read about how child life specialists use toys and games to help prevent potential trauma from medical interventions.

How did critical care specialist Meghan Bernier and other staff manage the pandemic, themselves and each other, the second time around?

An unprecedented breakthrough for children with spinal muscular atrophy?

He saved his siblings from a fire — then the pediatric burn team rescued his dream of playing professional football.

A Children's Center nurse searches for clues to her son’s puzzling symptoms.

With a visionary eye, Johns Hopkins Children's Center co-director and pediatrician-in-chief Tina Cheng leads pioneering, evidence-based approaches to pre-empt and prevent illness and injury in children.

George Dover’s colleagues reflect on the director of pediatrics’ remarkable 44-year career at Johns Hopkins as a scientist, iconoclastic leader, child advocate and teacher.

In this issue, we look at the science in the OR, saving the newborn brain and residents in the Navajo Nation.

Conquering cloacal exstrophy, nursing beyond the borders and All Children’s Hospital’s growing research enterprise in this issue.