Elijah Harper sat on the couch in his family’s Akron home, flipping a pencil end over end, moving it through the air to resemble a gymnast flipping across the floor. “He does this all the time,” said his mother, Pepin Harper. Elijah, 9, taught himself gymnastics by watching YouTube videos and tumbling in his backyard. […]
ER docs shouldn’t be too quick to order CT scans for kids
A recent study found that ER doctors should observe kids with head injuries longer and wait before using CT scans to help prevent needless radiation exposure. These findings weren’t all that surprising to Dr. Maria Ramundo, a pediatric ER doctor at Akron Children’s Hospital. I called Dr. Ramundo after reading a story on MSNBC suggesting that […]
Teen cancer survivor is called to serve others
In 2007, Akron Children’s Hospital featured Nick Reed of Salem, Ohio, in one of its documentary-style TV commercials. The hospital’s Showers Family Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders had diagnosed Nick at age 14 with metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma, a soft tissue cancer that caused a tumor to grow at the end of his thigh bone. […]
