Friends and family members of a Santa Clarita Valley boy with cancer are asking the community to help donate to a blood drive for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to benefit Team Connor and other pediatric cancer patients. Connor Coughenour, 10, of Saugus, was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a cancerous...

For the third straight year, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is ranked among the top five children’s hospitals in the country, a distinction that recognizes the hospital’s clinical expertise and the quality and breadth of its patient care. CHLA also was named to the elite Honor Roll of the nation’s...

Detectives at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station have learned in recent weeks of a woman going door to door in residential neighborhoods throughout our valley. The woman says her name is Sirena Sanchez and says she is collecting donations for Children’s Hospital in order to purchase books. One...

WHAT: Jack’s Very BIG Music Benefit WHERE:  West Ranch High School Performing Arts Center, 26255 Valencia Blvd. WHEN: Sunday, Nov. 24, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.   Local musical artists, including world class professionals and debuting young artists, come together in a musical tribute to little...

Joyce and Stanley Black have made a $15 million donation to fund research and clinical care programs at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. One of California’s most generous philanthropic couples, Joyce and Stanley Black, has made a $15 million gift to fund research and clinical care programs at Children’s...

With the school year underway, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles experts have developed a safety and health checklist to help kids avoid the emergency room and develop productive extracurricular and learning activities to enhance the classroom experience. What do parents need to consider? Many symptoms...

An innovative new partnership between the UCLA School of Nursing and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles will bring together nurses working in clinical practice, education and research to improve the health and well-being of children while advancing nursing practice. “There are so many opportunities...

In a study reported in the current issue of Cancer Research, Steven Mittelman, MD, PhD, and colleagues at The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles report that obesity substantially impairs the ability of a first-line chemotherapy to kill leukemia cells.  Not only can obesity...

Alan S. Wayne, MD, an internationally renowned pediatric hematologist-oncologist, has joined Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the University of Southern California (USC). After serving 14 years as clinical director of the Pediatric Oncology Branch of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National...

An infant girl is in stable condition but under observation at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, where she was airlifted after falling down a flight of stairs at a Canyon Country condominium complex, fire officials said Thursday. Paramedics responded to the call in the 2700 block of Crossglade, near Soledad...