Almost every Monday since the day Akron Children’s Hospital Beeghly Campus opened 10 years ago, local retirees Bernie Zets and Alice Ogden have dutifully staffed the inpatient building’s check-in desk with a smile – and a little assertiveness when they need to. And the 2 volunteers, whose tasks are to greet families and protect the […]
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Avoid certain UTI meds during first trimester
In light of a report that some antibiotics used to treat urinary tract infections (UTI) during pregnancy can have adverse effects, maternal fetal medicine specialists at Akron Children’s Hospital remind pregnant women to always ask questions about medications they’re being prescribed. A recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that […]
Planting of pinwheel garden promotes Child Abuse Prevention Month
A steady rain, soggy ground and near freezing temperatures weren’t going to prevent a determined group of cadets from Youngstown East High’s Junior ROTC program from completing a meaningful community service project. Nearly two dozen students spent their morning doing their part to help raise awareness of April’s National Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Month […]
Ryan doesn’t take his spina bifida diagnosis sitting down
Those close to 12-year-old Ryan Zolnier credit him for how he’s overcome so many health-related challenges, but to him it’s just been a way of life. He may not run the way most kids do. Or jump the way they do. Or, candidly, go to the bathroom like other kids his age. But what he […]
Open-heart surgery patches pencil-sized hole in Zoey’s heart
Zoey Ryan was born with a 7 millimeter hole in her heart — roughly the diameter of a pencil. Clinically speaking, her diagnosis of ventricular septal defect (VSD), is a fairly common one for infants, but that doesn’t reassure a new mother who’s been told her baby needs open-heart surgery. Zoey, from Beloit, was born in April […]
Hirschbecks help brighten holidays for palliative care families
Ensley and Chanel Thomas have called their daugther Kensley their “diamond” since they first saw her in a NICU incubator after being born prematurely at 23 weeks. “She was in a glass case and we started calling her our diamond in the rough,” Ensley said, recalling a beautiful little girl hooked up to wires, machines […]
