Stony Brook Children's News





Long Island Explorium, 101 E. Broadway, Port Jefferson hosts a Teddy Bear Clinic on May 13 from 1 to 3 p.m. Don’t miss this unique workshop with special guests from Stony Brook University.
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News12 - 5/3/23
A 7-year-old Brookhaven boy spent his Wednesday delivering get well cards to young patients battling life-threatening illnesses...
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News12 - 5/3/23
“Protein is the building block for muscles,” says Dr. Anupama Chawla, the director of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital.
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Healthline - 4/18/23
“We’re doing a better job at identifying what the causes are,” says Susan Katz, a nurse practitioner and the infant apnea program coordinator at Stony Brook Medicine in New York
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Popular Science - 4/14/23
Kindergartners at Deauville Gardens East Elementary School participated in a teddy bear clinic with representatives from Stony Brook University Trauma Center
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Amityville Record - 4/13/23
According to orthopedic surgeon James Penna, the biggest problem right now is that many children and teens are not taking time off from their sports activities.
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News 12 - 4/6/23
An unusual number of sick calls came in last Friday for students at Babylon Junior-Senior High School.
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PIX 11- 3/23/23
“The great majority of young children who contract COVID do quite well and recover fully,” Dr. Susan Walker, pediatrician with Stony Brook Children’s, explained.
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Times Beacon Record - 2/23/23
A $630,640 state grant awarded to Stony Brook Medicine to establish a neonatal telehealth consultation program “will increase the support for maternal and child health”…
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Newsday - 2/17/23
“I believe most parents have a general understanding that fruits and vegetables are healthy, but they tend to lose track of what their children are eating,”
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Newsday - 2/16/23
“News12 interviews Stony Brook University Professor Dr. Kristin Bernard and Stony Brook Medicine’s Dr. Wilfred Farquharson about how parents can prevent burnout with family and career...
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News 12 - 2/15/23
(AAP) released new clinical practice guidelines focusing on the treatment of childhood obesity, for the first time in 15 years.
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CheckUp- 1/24/23
Duchenne muscular dystrophy, also known as DMD, is a genetic disorder that weakens skeletal and heart muscles causing cardiac and respiratory issues.
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News 12 - 1/10/23
Stony Brook Children’s has become a frontline fortress in the war against muscular dystrophy. Their Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Comprehensive Care Center has earned Certified Duchenne Care Center accreditation…
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News 12 - 1/10/23
Dr. Carl Kaplan, chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Stony Brook Children’s, said with an increase of marijuana products in people’s homes, parents and caregivers have to take steps to keep them away from children.
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News 12 - 1/4/23
“Kids don’t tend to ingest pills because they don’t taste good, but they will certainly go for a product that looks just like a chocolate bar or a gummy bear,” said Dr. Carl Kaplan, Stony Brook Children’s
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WCBS-TV - 1/4/23