When Maya needed answers, a new partnership in Northeast Wisconsin helped get them for her faster than ever.
Perhaps no other time in life is filled with such rapid physical, mental and emotional change than during puberty.
“Children’s Wisconsin doctors didn’t know it at the time, but they would be among the first to make the connection between vaping and an outbreak of severe lung injuries in teens that within weeks would spread to more than 30 states and turn up about 400 similar cases.”
In July 2019, a collaborative group of providers from Children’s Wisconsin discovered a cluster of patients that was in the hospital with severe lung injury potentially due to vaping. They decided to warn the community about a possible danger of vaping. Little did they know that this would become a national issue. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote about how these doctors made the connection to vaping and what ensued after.
Read more in this article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel also featured a story from Dr. Jennifer Schreiber who describes her patient's terrifying case of lung injury linked to vaping. Read the full story.
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The Children’s Wisconsin board of directors has named Gil Peri as the organization’s new president and CEO, effective August 12, 2024.
The two-day radiothon featured stories of how Children’s Wisconsin impacts the health of thousands of children statewide.
The Children’s Wisconsin Center for Child Development focuses on integrated health services for children with developmental diagnoses.
Children’s Wisconsin has awarded State Senator Mary Felzkowsi (R-Tomahawk) and State Representative Robert Wittke (R-Racine) with the tenth annual Children’s Champion Policy Awards.
Mental health walk-in care is now available at the Children’s Wisconsin Kenosha Clinic thanks to a $3 million gift from Kohl’s.
Milwaukee is now home to one of the nation’s first institutes designed specifically to focus on the neurological needs of people from birth to old age.
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