Health, yes
Button batteries can be a safety hazard to young children
By Jessica Pasley
They're tiny, convenient, and oh-so-easy for curious toddlers to swallow
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Vanderbilt experts advise keeping safety in mind when buying toys
By Jessica Pasley
Because you don't need an ambulance coming down Santa Claus Lane
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Employee Spotlight
As a medical student, Joseph Fusco was diagnosed with cancer. That experience influences the way he treats his young patients every day.
By Jessica Pasley
He gave up baseball to become a surgeon. That decision may have saved his life.
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Patient Spotlight
VUMC nurse Kendra Kilgore received a liver transplant as a teenager. Then her teenage daughter needed one, too.
By Jessica Pasley
Kendra's experince helped her daughter Carissa: "I was able to explain to her from a first-hand view what it was like, not as a nurse, but as someone who went through it."
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Health, yes
Glow sticks are creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky. Here’s how to be sure they’re also safe.
By Jessica Pasley
Vanderbilt experts urge caution when using the popular items to light the night
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Reassurance for parents on monkeypox risk for children
By Jessica Pasley
While cases of monkeypox in the United States are on the rise and impacting primarily adults, some parents are concerned about the safety of their children
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VUMC in the Community
Tri My Best Triathlon brings fun and friendship to competition
By Jessica Pasley
The race pairs a child with a disability with a peer buddy to complete the race together
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Children’s Hospital sees increase in children poisoned by THC in marijuana edibles
By Jessica Pasley
They resemble candy. They taste like candy. Some children have ended up in intensive care.
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After an explosion almost cost her son his hand, one mother has a warning about the danger of fireworks: “They are explosives. They are dangerous.”
By Jessica Pasley
"No one ever expects something to happen to your own child."
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