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Child Protective Services had taken custody of Aerial Brown after her parents clashed with doctors at Texas Children's Hospital and M.D. Anderson over her treatment.

The Crystal Awards, AMA Houston's premier event, honored the vision and strategic direction of the city's best marketing work.

New parents David and Lauren Perkins hold daughter Caroline, one of the sextuplets born April 23 in Houston.

This May 13, 2012, photo provided by Texas Children's Hospital shows Lauren and David Perkins of Pearland, Texas, with three of their children, from left: Benjamin, Caroline and Andrew, at the hospital in Houston.

NEU ) announced today that it held a pre-IND meeting with the FDA Division of Neurology Products to discuss clinical development plans for the study of its lead drug NNZ-2566 in the treatment of Rett Syndrome.

A new surgery is offering hope to children suffering from a rare form of epilepsy that causes uncontrollable and potentially fatal fits of laughter.

For the first time, in an experimental pilot program at Texas Children's Hospital, doctors are using real time MRI-guided lasers to destroy lesions that cause laughing seizures in epilepsy patients.

A baby will have a life-saving heart surgery despite his parents refusing because they are Jehovah's Witnesses, a judge ruled yesterday.

Got a story idea? Let us know! The accident happened at about 7:30am on Concourse at Lawndale in southwest Houston.

The driver was traveling northbound on Concourse Drive when police say two little girls ran into the middle of the street.

Some elementary school kids got a lesson in life. The students at Wheeler Avenue Christian Academy went on an unconventional outing.

An internationally recognized leader in studying and treating primary immunodeficiency disorders in children, Orange serves as chief of Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology and director of a new Center for Human Immunobiology at Texas Children's and as professor and section head for Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology in the Department of ... (more)

A 7-year-old girl was struck by a vehicle during an early-morning accident on a southwest Houston road.

Peeling back the scalp, cutting the skull and removing a chunk of the brain. It's the traditional way to cure certain kinds of epilepsy, but the complications can be worse than the seizures.

The deletion of part of a gene that plays a role in the synthesis of carnitine - an amino acid derivative that helps the body use fat for energy - may play a role in milder forms of autism, said a group of researchers led by those at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital .

A 5-year-old girl was rushed to Texas Children's Hospital about 4 p.m. Sunday after nearly drowning at a northwest Houston apartment complex, KTRK-TV reports on its website.

Kids Yoga is a fun, the kids will learn many simple yoga postures breathing & relaxation techniques, concentration exercises, meditation, healthy food styles.

The team at Texas Children's Fetal Center, a national leader for treating fetal anomalies, has successfully completed two in-utero fetal cardiac interventions to treat hypoplastic left heart syndrome , a congenital heart defect that is one of the most complex heart defects to treat.

The Perkins sextuplets. Top row, from left, Allison, Andrew and Benjamin. Bottom row, from left, Caroline, Leah and Levi.

Dr. Michael Belfort congratulates David and Lauren Perkis, parents of sextuplets, after a news conference held at Texas Children's Hospital Pavilion for Women on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, in Houston.