Summertime food tips
For many children, summer break means lazy mornings and afternoon swims. But for others, summer brings grumbling bellies and the pain of hunger. It’s estimated that 15 percent of Oregon...
Category: Adolescents
The vaccine every teenager needs
Odds are, you or someone you know has been infected with human papillomavirus, or HPV. It’s the most common sexually transmitted disease (STD) in the US, infecting more than 79 million Americans....
Volunteer spotlight: Meet Chemo Pal mentors Jennifer, Allie and Jen
Meet Jennifer Thornton, Allie Busby and Jen Peckham, three OHSU employees who volunteer as Chemo Pal mentors, a Children's Cancer Association program that matches adults with kids undergoing cancer...
Preventing child abuse: Protecting our children from one another
Physical abuse, sexual abuse, violence in the home and exposure to substance abuse are all adverse events that can occur in the life of a child and may lead to negative health outcomes into...
Meet MyMusicRx
A children's hospital may not seem like the most likely place for a jam session or a guitar lesson, but it happens every day at Doernbecher through a Children's Cancer Association (CCA) program...
A classroom in a hospital: Doernbecher’s school program
Supporting hospitalized students for nearly a century, the Doernbecher School Program has a long history of helping students learn and grow while they are in the hospital. In an environment often...
Sleep is awesome!
Sleep is awesome! Just like food and water, we need it for our physical and mental well-being. The problem is that many of us are not getting enough or good quality sleep on a regular basis. The...
Hospital School Program helps young patients maintain normal routines
School is the work of children, and at OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital, we work hard to maintain that truth as children heal and recover. We believe that children have better long-term...
Talk to your kids about energy drinks
Energy drinks are a $12.5 billion dollar industry in the United States, and while the sale of soda continues to decrease, energy drink sales grew by 6.7 percent in 2013. Consumption is increasing...
Parents try alternative medicine to ease their child’s headache pain
More than 1 in 10 young people in the United States experiences recurrent headaches, and parents are eager to find ways to ease their pain and help their children get back to normal life and...