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Five-month-old infants don’t usually set off global science alerts—unless, like the little girl treated here last year, their cancer disappears and researchers finally figure out why. Doctors at Sant Joan de Déu Hospital had already thrown the kitchen sink at her malignant rhabdoid kidney tumor: surgery, chemo, radiotherapy. Nothing stuck. Then came an experimental immunotherapy … Read more

The pediatric emergency room is a pressure cooker. You have frightened children, often in the middle of a terrifying mental or behavioral health crisis. You have overwhelmed parents. And you have an ER staff trying desperately to keep everyone—the patient, themselves, and other families—safe. The single most dangerous variable in that entire equation has always … Read more