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March 25, 2021

High Schooler Invented Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection

After winning a state science fair and becoming a finalist in a national competition, Dasia Taylor now has her sights set on a patent

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June 22, 2020

Creating Funny Pictures Helps Kids to Heal

Why is art therapy important and necessary?  Read more to find out. 

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March 16, 2020

AAP Launches Covid-19 Update Website for Clinicians and Families

As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, the AAP has been staying abreast of all confirmed developments related to its global spread and will continue to be vigilant in efforts to develop and share information and guidance with members and families. 

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January 7, 2020

College Selects First Woman to Earn A Football Scholarship

Antoinette “Toni” Harris, a 22-year old Black woman, is the first woman ever to attend college on a full football scholarship.

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December 11th, 2019 

Time Magazine Selects a Child as Person of the Year

The 16-year-old climate activist from Sweden is the magazine's youngest choice to be named Person of the Year.

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November 4th, 2019 

40 Celebrities living with medical conditions

Here are 40 celebrities that are empowered and refuse to let a diagnosis stop them from doing what they love.  

Story Time

November 1, 2019

Shark Tank Investors reveal diagnosis

Three of the six investors reveal diagnosis of Epilepsy. 

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September 9, 2019

Surgeon General Jerome Adams releases advisory against Marijuana use

New recommendaton from US Surgeon General identifies dangers of using marijuana, specifically in adolescents and pregnant mothers through citing negative effects on developing brain. 

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March 22, 2019 

JA Warrior Paige Goehner Raises Awareness for Arthritis and Wins Food Network's "Kids Baking Championship" Season Six

“There’s a difference in having arthritis and having arthritis define you,” says Paige Goehner.

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August 2, 2019 

Irish Teen wins 2019 Google Science Fair

An Irish teenager just won $50,000 for his project focusing on extracting micros-plastics from water.

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July 1st, 2019 

Shriner's explains scoliosis and early detection

Do you know how to identify scoliosis in young people?  Shriner's explains what to look for. 

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June 18th, 2019 

Hope for Henry Partners with Dormify 

Will you be shopping for back to school? If so, you might want to know that Hope for Henry and Dormify are sharing the spirit of giving back to children recovering within the hospital through creating bright, cheery spaces that spur on health and well-being.  

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May 2nd, 2019 

Designing New Pediatric Tech Pays Off!

iCAN President, Leanne West helped to judge a group of inventors that share in the passion and belief that pediatric medicine can be better improved through new ideas and innovative technology.  Learn what they did and how it paid off.  

Phone App

April 5th, 2019

Kids Can Report Abuse

To further support children, Children Protective Services has created a hotline in which kids can discreetly call to report a need for safety against abuse.  

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March 19th, 2019

"Mr. Indifferent" by Aryasb Feiz Reminds Us to Share Kindness

Through the animated short, "Mr. Indifferent" by Aryasb Feiz, we are reminded that random acts of kindness are the best way to help support our community.  

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March 4th, 2019

Understanding a Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis

 Actress Selma Blair shares her diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis and explains how the news effected her young son and how she hopes to be back in a year with even better treatment and care. 

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February 28th, 2019 

11 Year-Old Lands Book Deal

Thinking about ways to help give back to your community?  This young boy is doing just that!  Using his crochet skills, he is raising money to help his hometown. 

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February 20, 2019

Micro Needle Takes The Sting Out of Injections

A new invention showcases an ingestible micro needle designed to inject insulin into the stomach lining.  

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Janurary 31st, 2019

Advice for girls (and boys) considering STEM Careers

Kara Cusker, a student at Houghton College, studying Chemistry, gives a great view of what it takes to be a successful student (for ALL students - male and female) in college.  

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Janurary 22nd, 2019

Strong smell is saved by a specially-trained dog

Meet 15 year old Martina Baker and her special pup, Caiomhe, who helps her to safely live with a diagnosis of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome. 

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Janurary 9th, 2019

Join iCAN Research President, Leanne West and Dr. Goel as they share AI Technologies

Team emPrize, a group of Georgia Tech AI researchers, is developing a suite of virtual tutors for online education that mimic many of the roles of human teachers. According to Dr. Ashok Goel, Professor of Computer Science in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, these tutors include more than 100 nanotutors for a Georgia Tech online class on artificial intelligence, as well as a virtual tutor for automatically answering questions on the discussion forum for the class. Preliminary results indicate that student self-efficacy in the class is high. 

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December 13, 2018

Mechanical CPR Saves Lives

9 year-old Lucas saw a need to help firefighters by providing a life-saving device.  Learn what he is doing to help his community.

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November 7, 2018

First Pediatrician Elected to US House of Representatives

Dr. Kim Schrier, MD FAAP will be serving in Congress next year.  

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January 29, 2021

Principal Who Took Night Job to Help His Students Receives $50,000 Donation

A high school principal in North Charleston, South Carolina has gone viral for taking on an extra overnight job at Walmart to help his students in need

Homework Help

April 17, 2020

AAP Shares Healthy Coping for Teens

The American Academy of Pediatrics shares more information for families and teens as helpful ways of dealing with stress and anxiety during difficult times.  

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January 31, 2020

Population One

Read about Tyler McNamer's book Population One and learn about what it is like to live with autism.  

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January 7, 2020

Kid's Baking Competition Selects Youth With Chronic Diagnosis to Compete

Elise loves playing the violin, piano, and soccer but her favorite hobby is baking. She started baking at nine years old when she first got diagnosed with type-1 diabetes. Baking was a great stress reliever.

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December 9th, 2019

Robot helps kids to relax while at Doctors office. 

Doctors have used everything from cartoons to bubbles to help distract kids during procedures, and Dr. Tanya Beran, founder of RXRobots, wants to add the MEDi robot to the mix.

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November 4th, 2019 

Meet a 14 year-old Genius Inventor and learn what problem he solved

Upon hearing about a potential flaw within vehicle design, a boy invents a way to eliminate blind spots.  

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September 22, 2019

AAP releases it's newest recommendation for the influenza vaccination for 2019-2020.  

It's time to get your flu shot and here is why it is important to do it now. 

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September 5, 2019

Athleta Embraces Good Idea from Young Inventor

10 - year old Sabrina Steich had an idea.  She brought her design for a new zippered hoodie to ensure that her medical device was secured.  What did Athleta do?  They promptly recognized the need and started making them.  Read more about their new Wellness + Good platform. 

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August 19, 2019 

Vaping causes health problems

Dozens of young people hospitalized after vaping sickens them.

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July 22, 2019 

Disney Unveils Team of Heroes at Texas Children's Hospital 

Sharing the need to help pediatric patients, Disney partners with Texas Children's Hospital to provide a new interactive experience.  

Happy Children

June 25th, 2019 

How healthcare communities are preparing for 'Patient Experience' 

Often there is a gap between patient experience and the technology that is being used... this is where iCAN can shine 

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May 13th, 2019 

Five teens who changed the world.

Meet five teens that know how to get things done and share their stories to inspire other youth around the world. 

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April 16th, 2019

7 Amazing Kid Inventions

Kids have great ideas!  Here are 7 ways that they have contributed to creating new technology.  

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March 21st, 2019 

Sing-a-long Brings Smiles

To help mark World Down syndrome Day (March 21) a group of mums joined forces and created a video celebrating children with Down’s syndrome. The mothers are members of a Facebook group called Designer Genes, for parents with children with Down’s syndrome.

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March 14th, 2019

iCAN Shares the need of #WORDDay2019 

March 18th marks a day to spotlight the support needed for young people living with Juvenile Arthritis.  Join our advocates on Twitter on Monday and share your voice for all of our kids.  

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March 1st, 2019 

Free Posters of Women in STEM

A Mighty Girl has teamed up with artists and activists to celebrate Women in STEM.  To download your own free posters, follow our link. 

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February 25, 2019

Medical devices help pediatrc patient living with Long QT Syndrome 

Pacemaker and Internal Cardiac Defiberillator puts teen back on the basketball floor.  

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February 5, 2019

Lincoln, Omaha teenager is allergeric to almost everything

Meet 17-year old Kenze Messman and learn how she handles Mast Cell Disease with the support of her friends.  

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Janurary 24th, 2019