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A 7-year-old Brookhaven boy spent his Wednesday delivering get well cards to young patients battling life-threatening illnesses…

“Protein is the building block for muscles,” says Dr. Anupama Chawla, the director of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital.

“We’re doing a better job at identifying what the causes are,” says Susan Katz, a nurse practitioner and the infant apnea program coordinator at Stony Brook Medicine in New York

Kindergartners at Deauville Gardens East Elementary School participated in a teddy bear clinic with representatives from Stony Brook University Trauma Center

According to orthopedic surgeon James Penna, the biggest problem right now is that many children and teens are not taking time off from their sports activities.

An unusual number of sick calls came in last Friday for students at Babylon Junior-Senior High School.

“The great majority of young children who contract COVID do quite well and recover fully,” Dr. Susan Walker, pediatrician with Stony Brook Children’s, explained.

A $630,640 state grant awarded to Stony Brook Medicine to establish a neonatal telehealth consultation program “will increase the support for maternal and child health”

“I believe most parents have a general understanding that fruits and vegetables are healthy, but they tend to lose track of what their children are eating,”

News12 interviews Stony Brook University Professor Dr. Kristin Bernard and Stony Brook Medicine’s Dr. Wilfred Farquharson about how parents can prevent burnout with family and career