Lindsay and David Rogers know what it feels like to leave a piece of their hearts in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) every time they had to say goodbye to their baby, Liam. Born 16 weeks early, Liam spent the first three months of his life in the Norton Women’s & Children’s Hospital NICU….
When the Rev. Corey Nelson became the pastor at Grace United Methodist Church (UMC) in South Louisville six years ago, he knew he was in for a challenge. “It was a high-crime, high-violence and high-poverty context. Within that, Grace UMC had become ingrown and closed off to the world outside of its doors,” he said….
Mark Brockman Jr., M.D., recently joined Norton Children’s Medical Group – Iroquois, where his father, Mark Brockman, M.D., has been practicing for 27 years, and where he first fell in love with medicine. After graduating from the University of Louisville’s School of Medicine in 2015, Dr. Brockman Jr. interviewed at 12 different pediatric residency programs…
During this season of giving, there are several ways to support Norton Children’s Hospital while maximizing your tax savings. Because the new tax law doubled the standard deduction for both married and single filers, fewer taxpayers will itemize deductions. Whether you choose to itemize or take the standard deduction, we’ve compiled some opportunities to lower…
UPDATE Friday, Jan. 4: Flu hits Louisville hard as Kentucky officials call the outbreak ‘widespread’ It appears flu season is upon us. Norton Children’s Medical Group offices in Louisville and Southern Indiana confirmed more than 100 flu cases in the week leading up to Christmas. Previously, local pediatricians had been seeing around 20 positive…
During many of his 136 days at Norton Children’s Hospital to get a heart transplant, Bryson Justice watched construction workers do renovations. When he was ready to go home, he got a special sendoff from his new friends on the construction crew.
Alex McCoy shares her story about RSV in babies … This time last year, my husband and I were sitting in the Norton Children’s Hospital ”Just for Kids” Critical Care Center — decorated for Christmas — praying for our daughter’s life. Isla Mae was only 7 weeks old and relying on a ventilator to breathe….
When April R. Mattingly, M.D., walked into her pediatrics rotation as a medical student at the University of Louisville, she knew she belonged. “There was nothing else I wanted to do,” said Dr. Mattingly, who is raising two young children of her own. “It’s such an optimistic place to be. Kids make work fun.” As…
As the temperatures continue to drop, many parents are making a potentially fatal mistake by putting their kids in winter coats while they are in car seats. When a child is wearing a winter coat, it may feel like they are strapped snugly into the car seat, but the straps actually are dangerously loose against…
Girls who are exercising more and eating less — or at least not filling their bodies with the nutrients they need — may be putting themselves at risk for a health condition called female athlete triad. “The female athlete triad has three parts: low energy availability, problems with menstruation and low bone density,” said S….
Pediatricians at Norton Children’s Medical Group practices are using customized iPhones to detect serious eye problems, including amblyopia – lazy eye – and some types of eye cancer, such as retinoblastoma, in children age 6 and younger. “Detecting these issues in young kids has always been tough, because children don’t want to stay still and can’t…
Cristal Molina Baheng, 12, amazes her orthopedic surgeon. That’s not just because of the things she does, like participate in a middle school musical, but because of what she doesn’t do, which is to ignore her doctor’s advice to wear a leg brace. Cristal, a seventh-grader, has mild cerebral palsy that affects her left leg….