Your tiny tots have their eyes all aglow. Make sure this upcoming holiday season’s hot toys won’t backfire in their hands.
42 Cora Healy, 1, fights through RSV like a superhero.
162 Give fruits, veggies and whole grains the attention they deserve—and be ready to make some simple ingredient swaps.
1 A stroke suspended Gray Rushin’s cross-country bicycle journey with 1,700 miles to go. Two years later, he returned to Michigan to finish the trip.
21 Use these 5 tips to manage your children’s expectations and protect them from the onslaught of holiday marketing.
96 Often scorned, the lowly spud is actually a nutrition powerhouse.
50 Even in cold weather, farm markets deliver freshness and flavor. Make it a nutrition bonanza.
13 COVID-19 continues to present challenges this season—but you can still enjoy the festivities with a few precautions top of mind.
71 Timely surgery gives Kody Brant, born with a rare liver disease, a chance for a normal childhood.
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Alexa cuddles her newborn son. (Taylor Ballek | Spectrum Health Beat)
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Wearing glasses, he had 20/130 vision by January. By summer, it was 20/80. That means Grayson must be 20 feet from an object that a person with no visual impairment person could see at 80 feet. (Taylor Ballek | Spectrum Health Beat)
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Cody Allan Wright, 23, hugs his mom, Brenda, for the first time in months since COVID-19 restrictions. (Taylor Ballek | Spectrum Health Beat)
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"I am really happy with the formation of my face," Erin said. "And the airway obviously is way better. This is by far the best end result I have ever had out of a surgery." (Chris Clark | Spectrum Health Beat)
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With strums of her guitar, Erin Wegener brings peace and healing to patients like Renee Teeple. Renee needed months of cancer treatments and music therapy helped her relax. (Chris Clark | Spectrum Health Beat)
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A group of Spectrum Health medical experts have collaborated to bring a unique lung cancer treatment to West Michigan: photodynamic therapy. (Chris Clark | Spectrum Health Beat)
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Kayla Lammers, 6, scratches the chin of a life-like Allosaurus named Allie. Child Life team member Alyssa Cosier described the dinosaur visit as "pure happiness." (Chris Clark | Spectrum Health Beat)
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The special package, flown in express from Europe, is a ‘bag of life’ for Lilly who’s undergoing a bone marrow transplant thanks to a stranger’s heartfelt donation. In this special Health Beat series, Lilly takes us through her journey as a way of promoting the gift of life.
Who are the people behind the lab coats, scrubs and name badges? What experiences have made them who they are today? This series shows the human side of the caregivers who are proud to call Spectrum Health their work home.
A pediatric plastic surgeon pioneers a technique to repair cleft palates that leads to better speech and jaw development for children.
