Team Stella’s classroom purple party, teddy bear drive celebrates epilepsy awareness with staff

There were purple streamers and balloons, cookies with purple icing, purple props for the photo booth and purple prizes for games. The purple party in Stella Miller’s fifth grade classroom at W.S. Stinson Elementary School in Canal Fulton was a celebration of Epilepsy Awareness Month and a reward for Stella’s class in collecting the most… Read more…
Akron Children’s Anywhere is your new go-to app for managing your children’s health

In an effort to continually add services to assist families in managing their children’s health, Akron Children’s Hospital has launched a mobile application that puts its new and existing services into one convenient location. Now, managing your children’s health has never been easier. Akron Children’s Anywhere, which is available for both Android and Apple devices,… Read more…
Akron Children’s celebrates the wonders of childhood with new campaign

18 years. 6,570 days. 157,680 hours. Childhood is both fleeting and finite – a million moments big and small, from heroic first steps to awkward middle school crushes and countless other milestones along the way to independence. Akron Children’s recognizes the importance of each of those milestones and moments. That’s why preserving, protecting and enriching… Read more…
E-cigarettes are providing teens with a gateway to smoking – (VIDEO)

Developed to help adults quit smoking, Juuls and other e-cigarettes are finding an audience in teens who are experimenting with nicotine for the first time. In this Children’s Channel video, Crystal Cole, MD, an adolescent medicine specialist at Akron Children’s Hospital, shares the impact these devices may be having on young adults.

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Team Stella’s classroom purple party, teddy bear drive celebrates epilepsy awareness with staff

Akron Children’s Anywhere is your new go-to app for managing your children’s health

Akron Children’s celebrates the wonders of childhood with new campaign

E-cigarettes are providing teens with a gateway to smoking – (VIDEO)

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