Children’s Hospital

As vaccination rates lag and the new delta variant surges, COVID infection rates among kids have risen and children’s hospitals are seeing a spike in medical care needs among the young patients, NBC News reports.

The parents of a 12-year-old girl from the New Orleans area are overjoyed that their daughter has recovered from a near-death coronavirus infection.

The 2017 death of Olivia Gant, a 7-year-old whose “bucket list” of final wishes evoked heart-touching news stories, wasn’t the result of multiple diseases – it was a murder carried out by her mother, according to a grand jury indictment unsealed Monday.

A Colorado mother who sought donations to cover medical treatments for her daughter and promoted the girl’s “bucket list” of dreams to fulfill before she died has been indicted on a murder charge in the 7-year-old’s death that was previously believed to be from a terminal disease. In a grand jury indictment revealed Monday, Kelly Renee Turner, 41, also known...

Dozens of children have lost their stem cells after a freezer at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles malfunctioned and destroyed their samples, according to the hospital.

Oakland City Administrator Sabrina Landreth announced on Thursday that she has appointed Guillermo Cespedes to be the city’s first permanent chief of violence prevention.

A boy who died Saturday under suspicious circumstances in Palmdale could have been removed from the custody of his parents in May, the NBC4 I-Team has learned.

Santa Clara County will host its first LGBTQ Summit Friday with panels, presentations and workshops to educate county residents about LGBTQ resources.

An 11-year-old boy was on a field trip with his class at the city of Antioch-owned water park when he ended face down at the bottom of a pool.

A North Texas man police believe abducted an underage girl was arrested after she told workers at a fast food restaurant that she was held against her will and sexually assaulted, police say.

A 6-year-old boy was injured and had to be extricated from a vehicle in a solo crash on Interstate 80 near Fairfield, according to the California Highway Patrol.

An Interstate 805 off-ramp has partially reopened after days of repairs to fill a massive sinkhole that formed there.

Repairs to a massive sinkhole that formed on the Interstate 805 off-ramp to Kearny Villa Road stretched into a second day Tuesday, potentially affecting evening commuters, California Highway Patrol said.

More than a hundred children from Los Angeles were given the chance to “fly” to the North Pole Wednesday morning in a Delta plane transformed into a holiday winter wonderland.

The Chinese scientist who says he helped make the world’s first gene-edited babies veered off a traditional career path, keeping much of his research secret in pursuit of a larger goal — making history. He Jiankui’s outsized aspirations began to take shape in 2016, the year after another team of Chinese researchers sparked global debate with the revelation that they...

A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin girls born this month whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life. If true, it would be a profound leap of science and ethics. A U.S. scientist said he took part in the...

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland officials gave a family more time in keeping a 6-month-old boy on life support, and late Monday, the family confirmed he had been transferred to Stanford Hospital.

Celebrities flocked to Dodger Stadium on Thursday night for the sixth annual “Ping Pong 4 Purpose” charity event presented by Kershaw’s Challenge, the foundation of Clayton and Ellen Kershaw.

A 3-year-old San Leandro boy is listed in stable condition Thursday morning after being injured during a shooting in Oakland Wednesday night, according to police.