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Keep up with your kid’s health: Find healthy snacks, injury prevention tips, sleep advice, family wellness, heart-warming stories of brave pediatric patients facing down disease. Get expert advice from our pediatric specialists.

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Q&A: Helping Your Kids Stay Healthy During Flu Season
Kids 11/10/2014

Ina Stephens, MD, gave us this update on the flu vaccine. She specializes in pediatric infectious diseases and sees patients at By Your Side Pediatrics and Northridge Pediatrics. Do parents need to get the flu vaccine to help protect their child? Yes! Parents absolutely carry viruses and unknowingly pass them…

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Battle Building: A New Place for Compassionate and Convenient Pediatric Care
Kids, Videos 6/11/2014

Three years ago, Health System and Children’s Hospital leadership stood in a sandbox by the 11th Street parking garage. With toy dump trucks and balloons to commemorate the occasion, they celebrated the groundbreaking of a special pediatric outpatient building. [caption id="attachment_8412" align="alignright" width="300"] The Battle Building site on West Main…

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Battle Building: Doctor Visits Made Easier for Kids
Kids, Videos 4/24/2014

Laura Robinson is beyond excited. As a mother whose son has multiple medical needs, she cannot wait until the Battle Building at UVA Children’s Hospital opens in June. “It is just going to be wonderful to go to one place and have everybody under the same roof in an awesome new…

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