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Years ago, children with congenital diseases often did not get to grow up. Now they do, and parents and doctors can focus on the challenges these children face along their road to adulthood.

New Pediatric E.R. enhances emergency care for children.

Patient donates earnings from jewelry to help children with cancer.

New Pediatric Emergency Room to open July 1. To help ensure children receive the best care, UF&Shands will open a new pediatric emergency room this summer, with doctors, staff and equipment geared specifically for the youngest patients.

Just 16 hours old, Caleb Harris was rushed from Ocala where he was born to Shands at UF, where doctors with UF’s Congenital Heart Center diagnosed him with hypoplastic right heart syndrome. Caleb is thriving after treatment for the congenital heart defect.

How an unusual diet helped quell the storm in Bronson Roth’s brain.

Dorothy, Toto and the rest of “The Wizard of Oz” gang visited some special munchkins at Shands Hospital for Children in April. Every year, the College of Medicine’s White Coat Company produces a play to perform throughout the Gainesville community, including for children in the hospital.

Shands Hospital for Children at the University of Florida has been recognized among the nation’s best in six medical specialties in the 2011-12 U.S. News Media Group’s Best Children’s Hospitals rankings.

Congratulations to Dr. Maureen Novak, the 5th member of the Department of Pediatrics, to receive the University of Florida College of Medicine Hippocratic Award.

Working with children is a challenge and one of the newest challenges facing pediatricians today is childhood obesity. Sahar Dowidar is a pediatric resident at Shands at the University of Florida. She is currently working in a project to decrease childhood obesity through promotion of breastfeeding.