Imagine a heart, barely the size of a small fist, tirelessly filling and emptying 60 to 100 times a minute to pump blood throughout a child’s body. Now, imagine a section of that heart’s muscle — the space between the left and right ventricles — is thicker than it should be, making the heart beat…
For the first time ever, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute has produced a mini Year in Review to publicly share a snapshot of research accomplished during the past fiscal year.
He wasn’t eating well — that was the first sign that something was wrong with baby Liam. The second was that his legs held a tinge of blue. When Juliane Khadra brought her three-day-old son to her doctor for a scheduled visit, she immediately burst into tears. She knew something was wrong with her second…
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