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Toni Whitaker, MD provides facts after the Center for Disease Control (CDC) recently revised its developmental milestone checklists for infants and young children.

Local research has shown that during the pandemic, children got well behind on their well child pediatrician visits and regular childhood immunizations. Memphis Shelby County Schools, Shelby County Health Department, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and The University of Tennessee Health Science Center have partnered to host pop-up vaccination events during the Spring and Summer to help children prepare for back-to-school requirements. During a planning session for the events, the team identified “fear of needles” or “needlephobia” as a real barrier to immunization that needs to be addressed. Here to talk with us today about strategies to help ease anxiety among both parents and children when it comes to getting a shot is Le Bonheur Director of Family Support Services Jessica Liles.

Le Bonheur Pediatric Neurologist and Director of the Neuroscience Institute's Comprehensive Headache Center Ankita Ghosh, MD, discusses headaches in kids - what to look for, how to prevent them and when to seek a higher level of care for your child.

How do I know if my child has Tourette syndrome and what are strategies for children to manage tics? Robin Jack, MD, discusses the signs and treatments for this patient population.

Question and Answer with the Le Bonheur Trauma Department

Theresa Drewry, Wanda Keath, and Dr. Kiersten Hawes make up the Le Bonheur Trauma team and discuss the work being done to mitigate the long term effects that gun violence has on children.

Human papillomavirus is the most common sexually transmitted infection. Dr. Michelle Bowden explores HPV vaccines and why they are so incredibly important.

Dr. Sandra Arnold answers the most frequently asked parent questions about the COVID-19 vaccine that has just been approved for children between the ages of 5-11 years old.

Clinical trials are essential to bring new treatments to the kids who need them. Dr. Dennis Black, Le Bonheur's vice president of research and the scientific director at the Children's Foundation Research Institute, answers the common questions he hears about pediatric clinical trials, how clinical trials work and which kids benefit from them.

Dr. Mark Corkins explores Short Bowel syndrome, intestinal rehabilitation, and how to help children afflicted with Short Bowel.

Jennifer Taylor discusses drowsy driving, how Safe Kids Mid-South helps bring awareness to this issue, and how they try to prevent it.

Dr. James Wheless explains the difference between genetic epilepsies and other epilepsies children might have, how parents can find out if their child has a genetic epilepsy, and treatment options available.

At a children's hospital, where patients often can't tell their doctors what they think is wrong, medical mysteries can become especially intensified. Dr. Sandra Arnold discusses diagnosing Infantile Botulism as well as how she teaches the next generation of doctors how they can solve similar medical mysteries.

In an effort to reduce hospitalizations of diabetes patients, Le Bonheur has developed two clinics, Fresh Start and BEGIN, for children and adolescents with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes. Led by Le Bonheur Endocrinologist Kathryn Sumpter, MD, these clinics use a comprehensive approach to diabetes control, including education, psychoscocial support, social workers and easy access to diabetes providers.

Vaccines to protect against COVID-19 are now available for adolescents and teens 12 and up. This is an encouraging development and a big step forward in the fight to end this pandemic. The pediatric experts at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital know that parents want to make informed decisions about their children’s health care and may have questions about whether the vaccine is right for their child. Here to address some of those questions and concerns is Division Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Dr .Sandy Arnold.

A secondary effect of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the significant increase in eating disorder diagnoses and relapses in the pediatric population. Eating disorders are among the most fatal psychiatric illnesses, so concerns raised by parents, friends, teachers, or others should be taken seriously and evaluated by a physician as soon as possible. However, eating disorders take many forms and can be tricky to identify. Dr. Michelle Bowden, a General Pediatrician at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital who specializes in adolescent medicine and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, is here to talk with us about Le Bonheur’s Eating Disorders Clinic, as well as how parents can receive support while navigating their child’s eating disorder.

Dr. Jara Best Jones discusses how to prepare teenagers for adult life and how they can take responsibility for their own health.

Dr. Andre Ramos discusses the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on children's collective mental health and ways we can try to combat these effects.

Ryan Stephens talks about his personal experience with a congenital heart defect, how it impacted his adolescence, and how his life has greatly improved since his open-heart surgery.

Le Bonheur Medical Director of Infection Prevention Nick Hysmith, MD, discusses what Le Bonheur and the community are seeing currently with the pandemic. In his state of the pandemic address, Dr. Hysmith discusses our current COVID-19 situation, MIS-C, the emergence of vaccines and different COVID-19 variants.