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Health Topics
Immunizations / Vaccinations
Vitamin K and hepatitis B: Two hospital shots that protect your baby from the start
Learn why the vitamin K shot and hepatitis B vaccine are recommended at birth, how they protect newborns, and the risks they help prevent.
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Nutrition
A parent’s guide to prebiotics and probiotics
Learn how prebiotics and probiotics support your child’s gut health, digestion, and immunity. Discover the best foods and easy recipes.
Summer Safety
A pediatrician shares the most common pool mistakes families make
Avoid common pool mistakes that can lead to illness, injury or emergencies. A pediatrician shares tips to help keep your family safe.
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Research & Innovation
Healthcare
First clinical research coordinator interns graduate from novel pediatric hospital program
Through a combination of formal instruction, mentorship, shadowing, and active participation in research activities, the CRC interns gained practical skills that cannot be fully taught…
Healthcare
Shaping the future of pediatric gene therapy
Learn how Rady Children’s Health Orange County investigates gene therapy to treat childhood diseases, including Hurler syndrome, liver cancer and more.
Healthcare
‘Something better’? Gene therapy’s potential to treat Hurler syndrome
Discover how Rady Children’s Health Orange County is studying gene therapy as a less burdensome treatment alternative for children with Hurler syndrome.
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