Content related to Genetic Clotting Disorders in Children

Everything parents should know about spotting and preventing blood clots in children.

As a parent, your number one goal is keeping your child safe and healthy. When is it time to head to the emergency department, call your child’s doctor, or go to an urgent care center?

Study results are promising for an investigational drug to prevent bleeding in patients with a severe clotting disorder.

The risky decision to use a blood thinner to shrink the large clot, which took up nearly all of Birdie’s right atrium, turned out to be a lifesaver.

Here's what you should do if your child has a fever, when you should you call the doctor, and how fever is related to COVID-19 and MIS-C.

The wrong type of baby equipment—or using it incorrectly—could harm a child’s development and lead to hip issues. An orthopedic specialist at CHLA explains what all parents should know.

A medical odyssey with epilepsy led Lucia’s parents to CHLA, where they found the diet therapy treatment that Lucia’s brain needs to thrive.

The new approval opens the gene therapy to a wider range of children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare genetic disorder that worsens over time.

Newborn screening found that Greigh had spinal muscular atrophy. He was sent to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where gene therapy saved him from paralysis.