Heather Mefford, MD, PhD

This collaboration on infection prevention pivoted early in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and did this global pediatric cancer community.

It’s difficult enough as a frontline clinician to care for patients during a pandemic. But what about your children? Here’s how to have that conversation.

Almost everyone gets ear infections. This vaccine may change that.

This researcher's recommendations on coronavirus are based on 65 years of infectious diseases and viral research.

Little is known about childhood cancer patients who are diagnosed with COVID-19, but a new registry is the first step to finding out.

A neuroscientist studying the brain’s fight-or-flight response is learning more about developing brains and this about pediatric brain tumors.

Read how a new model of hope and realism are seen as life-affirming instead of death-denying, strengthening the doctor-patient family relationship.

Drug resistance is a major reason for treatment failure in children with leukemia, but recent research may have an answer.

Learning more about how the body attacks itself in Type 1 diabetes offers insights into how to harness the power of T cells to treat cancer.

Read how oxygen’s role neuron development is critical for brain health in infants.