As the day honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. approaches, let’s consider a question he once put to us: Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?' With this simple question, Dr. King calls on us all to make a difference in the lives of our neighbors…
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Imagine adopting a daughter and as you're welcoming this little girl into your family, you discover she have serious health issues. The dream of a happy, healthy child playing in the yard quickly turns to the reality of a child who's in need of major medical care. This is the story of Ella. When…
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Sunday was a beautiful fall day. A day created for a walk – the sun was out, the sky was blue and the trees in our neighborhood were at their peak. So my wife, Marilyn, and I decided to take our dog for a walk. While my wife was looking up to admire the Hoosier fall colors, she should have been…
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Spunky does not even begin to describe Holden Harless. Full of curiosity and energy, he rushes into each new experience with an enthusiasm that is rarely seen, even in an 8-year-old boy. As he and his family visited the Indianapolis Colts practice field in preparation for the Riley Coin Toss Kid event,…
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From time to time, we all experience aches and pains. But for Calista White, severe back pain was part of her daily life. Calista was born with a congenital muscle and spine disorder that causes her to ache and limits her mobility. And her pain only worsened when her spine began to collapse and pinch…
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Born at 22 weeks and five days, Matt spent more than five months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Riley Hospital for Children. When Matt’s mom, Amy, went into labor just after the start of her 22nd week, his parents were told that their son had little chance of survival. Amy recalls…
Read MoreMost people don’t survive car accidents like the one that nearly took Cory Suits’ life. The last thing he remembers is sitting in the middle of the back seat of the car he was riding in, looking down and then seeing the street light. "A couple seconds later we were all upside down fighting…
Read MoreChronic kidney disease affects one in eight people. If you're one of them, you know how exhausting dialysis can be, and maybe you even know what it's like to wait for a new organ. Cecilia Livingston from Franklin, Ind., is one of those people. After years of struggling with diabetes, Cecilia…
Read MoreJake McConahay is in the fight for his life, but he’s not letting it stop him from brightening up others’ lives. The 7-year-old boy, a patient at Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health, is battling stage IV of an aggressive and rare form of cancer, Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma.…
Read MoreTo continue introducing our new identity to the people of Indiana, we have a new television commercial rolling out across the state. The commercial was shot all around Indiana and features real IU Health doctors, nurses, researchers, teachers and patients coming together to help introduce our new identity…
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ACL injuries were once reserved for adult athletes,…
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