Akron Children's Hospital

Akron Children's Hospital opened its new Unity and Family Resource centers earlier this month to help reduce health inequities and increase access to community resources for minorities.

Selectively cooling the head and neck of young concussion victims could reduce symptoms by as much as 25%, according to a recent study led by researchers at Akron Children's Hospital.

Patients are in need of help with more than their health. A partnership between Community Legal Aid and Akron Children's Hospital aims to fix that.

Akron Children’s Hospital opened on Tuesday a new behavioral health center in Canton that will offer many of the outpatient services available at its main campus in Akron.

Akron Children's Hospital will lead a study on pediatric palliative care after receiving a three-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and Nursing Research.

Many doctors call fall and early winter “concussion season” because they say the numbers increase dramatically — mostly from soccer and football. Northeast Ohio doctors are warning parents to be on the lookout for concussions and say it doesn’t necessarily take a dramatic hit to cause one.

Cleveland and Akron doctors say the number of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, cases in their hospitals have grown steadily for several weeks.

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Cleveland Clinic plans to comply with the national health care employee COVID-19 vaccination mandate after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the requirement Thursday, officials said.

There are now 12 COVID-19 drive-thru testing sites operating Ohio, including in Canton; the state says its shipment of COVID-19 testing kits has been delayed due to the high demand; Akron Children’s Hospital is placing an undisclosed number of employees who haven’t received COVID-19 vaccines on unpaid leave; and more stories.