News and Articles

Chest Pain in Children and Adolescents
Chest pain is a common complaint in children and adolescents. Chest pain is often perceived as “heart pain” both to children and their parents, and it can cause a lot of emotional and physical upset. However, chest pain in children is very rarely due to a heart problem and most often arises from a less worrisome source.

Celebrating Our Nurses
National Nurses Week is from May 6th through the 12th, and nurses across the country are being honored for their countless contributions to patients every day.

Healthy Lifestyles Program: The Answer to Childhood Obesity
Dr. Sarah Armstrong is a pediatrician at Duke Children's who is the leader of Duke’s Healthy Lifestyles Program. The program tries to educate the child and family about a new way of coping in this time of plenty. It is a way to find the answer to “what can we do to help our child who is overweight?”

Mending Hearts
Every year in the United States, some 40,000 babies are born with congenital heart defects. Today, advances in care are helping patients of any age to not just survive--but thrive.

New Findings on Teens and Antidepressant Use
A major Duke-led study has shed new light on the best way to help the estimated 2 million American teenagers suffering from depression -- and more such guidance is on the way.

March is Child Life Month
Recognizing that being hospitalized can be frightening to children, the Child Life Program at Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center creates an environment designed to ease children's fears and provide the important emotional and social care to make the hospital experience as pleasant as possible for both the child and the family.

Protecting What's Precious
Millions of young lives have been saved in large part by the pioneering work of Samuel Katz and Catherine Wilfert. Now the longtime Duke pediatricians have created a legacy to help save billions of young lives still at risk around the world.