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Helping Your Child Take Medicine
Learning to take medicine can be hard for kids. Here are some ways to help your child learn: Helping Your Child Take Medicine (PDF) - English Helping Your Child Take Medicine (PDF) - Spanish Pill...
Commute Options
Save money, de-stress your commute and take care of our air with these great options. Children's Mercy Adele Hall Campus Children's Mercy Broadway Children's Mercy East Children's Mercy Hospital...
Genomic Research
Award Our gastroenterologists are working with the Genome Center to investigate the genetic causes of gastroenterology disorders and move patients into appropriate treatment. Genomic...
Mehta Casting
American College of Surgeons Verified Center Mehta Casting is a type of body casting used to help straighten the spines of pediatric patients suffering with spinal deformities. Our surgical team specializes...
Health Care Innovation
The Health Care Innovation area of emphasis at the Children’s Mercy Research Institute (CMRI) accelerates and expands the pace the pace of intellectual property development opportunities for products and...
6 most preventable childhood injuries
Most childhood injuries can be prevented and knowing how to prevent an accident is key to keeping children safe. We’ve all been taught the basics. Buckle-up in the car, wear a bike helmet and look both...
Atopic Dermatitis: Infected - Practical Guidelines to Obtain Skin Cultures
Aerobic Culture Perform hand hygiene. Obtain e-swab. If needed, gently clean affected site with sterile saline on sterile 4x4 gauze pad. Avoid using alcohol to clean specimen site. ...
Classification of Seizure Type
Types of Seizures | Epilepsy Foundation Scheffer, I. E., Berkovic, S., Capovilla, G., Connolly, M. B., French, J., Guilhoto, L., Hirsch, E., Jain, S., Mathern, G. W., Moshé, S. L., Nordli, D. R., Perucca...
Support Children's Mercy Research Institute
Kids are getting left behind in pediatric research. Learn how you can help move them to the front of the line by supporting the Children's Mercy Research Institute.
State of the Art Pediatrics: What Can You Do About Food Allergies?
Food allergy is a common complaint. The most common food allergies in children are milk, eggs, peanuts and tree nuts. The best test for food allergy is a history of what happens when the food is...
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor: Clara's story
Meet Clara Wearing glittery pink sneakers and hugging a fluffy pink and white leopard print blanket, when 2-year-old Clara Jensen looks at you with those big brown eyes, all you see is an adorable, happy...
Children’s Mercy Researcher Receives $2.3 Million R01 NIH Grant to Study Lung Development and BPD in Neonates
This funding will support the study of how delta like 4 (DLL4), a molecule expressed in endothelial cells, regulates blood vessel and air sac formation during normal and abnormal (bronchopulmonary...
Histamine Pharmacodynamic Biomarker to Guide Treatment in Pediatric Asthma
Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases in childhood. We know a lot about how to treat asthma, but there are still many children who continue to have daily symptoms that limit their ability to...
Getting a Joint Injection or Joint Aspiration
Read the steps your child will take when getting a joint injection or aspiration at Children's Mercy.
What's the Diagnosis - October 2022
An 11-day-old male presents to the emergency department with his mother for concerns of intermittently increased respiratory rate. He started having some subcostal retractions with increased work of...
Faculty - Pediatric Coagulation Medicine Fellowship
The Pediatric Coagulation Medicine Fellowship Program offers a team approach to learning through a group of experienced physicians and clinicians. The program is designed to give fellows comprehensive...
Experts in Surgery
No surgery is routine when it is your child in the operating room. Whether your child needs a simple outpatient procedure or a complex, life-saving surgery, you want the very best surgical team on the job.
Kids behind the wheel (they’re still kids)
My dad taught me to drive in a cemetery. Why? Because there’s no traffic. It’s impossible to get lost. “And you can’t hurt anyone because there aren’t any living people in a cemetery.” Even still, we were...
What to Expect: Nephrology Department
Partnering with kids and teens as they grow In addition to professional partnerships, our team takes pride in truly getting to know the children and families in our care. Those close relationships, along...
Teaching kids about helping others
It’s that time of year… when our kids are making their lists and checking them twice. Full of wishes for the best new toy or the coolest new shoes. But it’s also the time of year when many parents begin to...