Colin has eosinophilic esophagitis, a rare inflammatory condition of the esophagus, and receives care at CHOP, which is one of the few pediatric hospitals with a specialized program for the condition.

Emily Kelly underwent successful fetal surgery at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to remove a cervical teratoma, a type of giant neck mass.

Diagnosed with bilateral hearing loss at 20 months old, Maggie's family sought help from CHOP's Center for Childhood Communications.

Mason was prenatally diagnosed with LUTO (keyhole bladder) and successfully treated with fetal surgery at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Diagnosed with childhood apraxia of speech when he was 3 years old, Seth continues weekly speech therapy at CHOP Specialty Care Center in Bucks County, PA.

Bette Mickley didn't believe her daughter Amber had growing pains, for one simple reason: Amber wasn’t growing. Instead, the family learned Amber has Gaucher Disease, a rare genetic disorder.

After a diagnosis of GE reflux and failure to thrive, a mother tells how the Day Hospital at CHOP's Feeding and Swallowing Center helped her son Jack learn to eat.

When Phoenix was born profoundly deaf, his family turned to CHOP for help. At age 2 and 5 he received cochlear implants to help him hear. 

When Diana Huang learned her nephew, Steven, was sick with Gaucher disease in his native China, she helped him come to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for treatment.

Born prematurely with an enlarged area on his upper intestine, Jack was diagnosed with multiple jejunal atresia. Though it occurs only 1 in 3,000 live births, the expert team at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia knew how to treat his rare condition.

The Feeding Program at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia taught Luke to eat after a diagnosis of failure to thrive.

Lynne and Bill Garbose provided the lead gift to create the Garbose Family Special Delivery Unit (SDU) at CHOP, a specially created birthing suite for mothers carrying babies with known birth defects.

Five months pregnant with twins, Kim Hebron and her husband Vaughn learned their babies had a life-threatening condition called twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS).

Meet Emily Ireland. Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was 12 years old, Emily never lets her diabetes stop her from doing the things she enjoys.

Khloe was just 2 days old when doctors noticed she was having digestive problems. She was transferred to CHOP where doctors discovered she had Hirschsprung’s disease.

A mother tells the story of her daughter, Arianna, whose food anxiety and selectivity made mealtimes stressful and upsetting. The family turned to CHOP's Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing Center for help.

Thirteen-year-old Hannah Rowan has type 1 diabetes, hyperthyroidism, and was recently diagnosed with celiac disease. But all of these auto-immune conditions don't slow her down.

Hundreds of gravely ill newborns have benefits from EMCO, a machine that temporarily acts as the baby's heart and lungs, since 1990 when Katelyn became CHOP's first ECMO patient.

Katharina Lucas, Aaron's mother, describes how the Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing Center at CHOP helped teach her young son to eat after a diagnosis of failure to thrive.

Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 8, Emily Gold has been working with her family and community to raise money to help find a cure for the condition.