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In Houston, Texas Children's Hospital is sued by the parents of a drowned child to stop brain death testing *Texas Tribune*: [https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/22/texas-childrens-hospital-brain-death-testing-annelise-camp/](https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/22/texas-childrens-hospital-brain-death-testing-annelise-camp/) **Case** 2-year-old girl and her parents were at a family gathering on Memorial Day 2026. The girl walked into the hotel pool without a life jacket and drowned. Relatives performed CPR, and the girl was taken to Texas Children's Hospital in west Houston, with return of spontaneous circulation an hour after drowning. Three days after admission, the child's pediatricians had exhausted all interventions and advised her parents about brain death testing. The parents sued Texas Children's to prevent this testing, to give the girl more time to recover, and to transfer the patient to another facility (i.e., right to try) so she can receive investigational treatments like hyperbaric oxygen and stem cell infusion. Additionally, in court documents, the parents state that brain death testing is against their religion. Texas Children's, for their part, reached out to 36 facilities for transfer -- 35 declined, and the one pending hospital required brain death testing. Additionally, on June 6, Texas Children said that "\[f\]urther testing will help guide care and there are no imminent plans to end care regardless of results. In fact, there is a June 11 hearing planned to discuss next steps together with the family, unless transfer occurs before then. Out of respect for the family’s privacy, we are unable to comment further." Now state politicians (including Steven Toth \[running for Congress this November\] and Ken Paxton \[also running for Congress\]) and pro-right-to-life groups like Texas Right to Life have stepped in because they believe that as long as the patient has a heartbeat, they have the right to life. **Comments** What a terrible situation for the patient, her parents, and Texas Children's. I hope the parents are confiding in the Texas Children's chaplain to navigate this situation. I hope for all to recognize that futile life support takes ICU resources like ventilators and beds for other sick children, and I hope that the politicians don't use this case to bolster their election campaigns for this November.

Texas Children's Hospital is sued by the parents of a drowned child to stop brain death testing **Case** 2-year-old girl and her parents were at a family gathering on Memorial Day 2026. The girl walked into the hotel pool without a life jacket and drowned. Relatives performed CPR, and the girl was taken to Texas Children's Hospital in west Houston, with return of spontaneous circulation an hour after drowning. Three days after admission, the child's pediatricians had exhausted all interventions and advised her parents about brain death testing. The parents sued Texas Children's to prevent this testing, to give the girl more time to recover, and to transfer the patient to another facility (i.e., right to try) so she can receive investigational treatments like hyperbaric oxygen and stem cell infusion. Additionally, in court documents, the parents state that brain death testing is against their religion. Texas Children's, for their part, reached out to 36 facilities for transfer -- 35 declined, and the one pending hospital required brain death testing. Additionally, on June 6, Texas Children said that "\[f\]urther testing will help guide care and there are no imminent plans to end care regardless of results. In fact, there is a June 11 hearing planned to discuss next steps together with the family, unless transfer occurs before then. Out of respect for the family’s privacy, we are unable to comment further." Now state politicians (including Steven Toth \[running for Congress this November\] and Ken Paxton \[also running for Congress\]) and pro-right-to-life groups like Texas Right to Life have stepped in because they believe that as long as the patient has a heartbeat, they have the right to life. **Comments** What a terrible situation for the patient, her parents, and Texas Children's. I hope the parents are confiding in the Texas Children's chaplain to navigate this situation. I hope for all to recognize that futile life support takes ICU resources like ventilators and beds for other sick children, and I hope that the politicians don't use this case to bolster their election campaigns for this November.

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 ⚖️ A judge has ordered Texas Children's Hospital to continue care for Annelise for at least two more weeks, giving her family additional time to seek a transfer. 🙏 Her family now has a limited window to find a hospital willing to accept her transfer and continue her care. They remain committed to pursuing every available option. 🏥 We need help finding a hospital willing to give this sweet baby girl a chance. If you know of any physicians, hospitals, or resources that may be able to help, please reach out to us. ❤️ Please keep Annelise and her family in your prayers. https://t.co/o34wS4uMZs

Congratulations to ACS Fellow Dr. Sundeep Keswani and the multidisciplinary team at Texas Children's Hospital on a groundbreaking achievement in fetal surgery. 👏 The team performed the first reported US procedure to treat complex gastroschisis before birth, using a minimally invasive approach at 26 weeks’ gestation. The child remained in the womb until term, established full feeds within two days, and went home just three days after birth. While this procedure remains investigational, the milestone demonstrates the exciting potential of fetal surgery to treat certain conditions before birth and help prevent further injury. Read more about this achievement: https://brnw.ch/21x54tO

AUSTIN, TEXAS 🏥 TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL PLANNING $17.9 MILLION 5TH FLOOR EXPANSION Texas Children's Hospital is preparing for a major $17,900,000 expansion at its North Campus in Austin. Located in Williamson County at 9835 N Lake Creek Pkwy, Building A, the project involves an extensive interior build-out of the facility. The development encompasses a 24,543-square-foot shell infill on the existing 5th floor of the hospital. This new space is specifically designed to house 12 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) beds alongside 12 Universal Care Pediatric beds to serve the community. Construction on the 5th floor is scheduled to kick off this summer on August 31, 2026, with the development team targeting a completion date in the spring of 2028 on May 1, 2028. 📍 9835 N Lake Creek Pkwy, Building A, Austin, TX 78717

A simple dietary addition, leucine, may help prevent sepsis in malnourished males by restoring gut health. The Core Issue Malnutrition is far deadlier for boys than girls. Malnourished boys have a well documented higher risk of sepsis (bloodstream infection) than malnourished girls, but the biology behind that sex gap has never been clear. The Finding Researchers put mice on a low protein, low fat diet designed to mimic malnutrition. In normally colonized mice, this diet thinned the protective mucus layer of the colon, made the gut leakier, and let live gut bacteria cross into the liver and spleen, but this damage only showed up in male mice, not female mice, mirroring the human sex gap. When the same diet was given to germ free mice (raised with no gut bacteria at all), the barrier damage did not happen, meaning gut microbes have to be present for malnutrition to wreck the barrier. The team also found malnourished mice were low on a bacterial metabolite called isovalerate. In human derived colon organoids (lab grown mini guts), adding isovalerate strengthened the tight junctions that seal the gut lining. In malnourished male mice, delivering isovalerate directly by enema, or feeding them the amino acid leucine (which gut bacteria convert into isovalerate), both improved gut barrier function. Why it Matters If this holds up, a cheap, stable dietary compound like leucine could become a low cost add on to malnutrition treatment aimed specifically at preventing the gut barrier breakdown that leads to sepsis, rather than just addressing caloric or protein deficits. Limitations of Study This is mouse and lab grown organoid work, not tested in malnourished children. The sex specific effect, damage in males but not females, is not yet mechanistically explained. The primary journal article is paywalled, so the exact sample sizes and statistics for these experiments could not be independently verified for this post. Treat the specific findings as reported by the study's investigators rather than as independently checked numbers. Conflicting Interests None identified. Researchers are based at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, and the USDA-ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, no industry funding or conflict of interest flags found. Interesting Statistics \- The gut barrier damage from the malnutrition diet occurred in male mice but not female mice \- Germ free mice on the same malnutrition diet showed no barrier damage, meaning gut bacteria are required for the effect \- A companion study in pig gut organoid cells independently found isovalerate strengthens the intestinal barrier too, a cross species replication of the mechanism Useful Takeaways The researchers frame this as investigational, not a validated therapy. It would need to be tested directly in malnourished children before leucine or isovalerate could be recommended in real world settings. TL;DR In mice, a malnutrition diet damaged the gut barrier and let bacteria leak into organs, but only in males, and only when gut bacteria were present. A bacterial metabolite called isovalerate, boostable with dietary leucine, restored the barrier, hinting at a cheap potential intervention still years from human testing.

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🚨 NATION'S FIRST DETRANSITION CLINIC OPENS AT TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL Dr Marc Siegel: "Puberty blockers... can have long-term side effects if they're put together with female or male hormones. They can cause fertility problems, bone problems, growth problems, cognitive problems. All of that can be reversed if you stop it in time." #TexasChildrensHospital #Detransition #TransgenderMinors #DOJ #Healthcare

Texas Children's Hospital has 90 days to open a gender 'detransition clinic' giving free care for transgendered people who want to go back to their gender at birth under a settlement with the state

A Christian nurse who was fired from Texas Children's Hospital for exposing alleged Medicaid fraud has secured a landmark settlement that includes the creation of America's first free detransitioner clinic. Vanessa Sivadge, a pediatric nurse who worked at the hospital for years, was terminated in 2024 after she blew the whistle on the hospital's illegal gender-transition procedures on minors. Under the settlement, Texas Children's Hospital must establish the nation's first multidisciplinary Detransition Clinic, which will provide free care for patients up to age 21 who have suffered harm from gender-transition procedures. The clinic must open within 90 days and provide services at no cost for at least five years. The hospital must also pay $10 million in penalties, fire five physicians who performed the procedures, and issue a public admission of fraud. Sivadge, who will receive approximately $1.7 million from the settlement, said: "I lost the job I loved and the career I worked so hard to build. But now? America's First Detransitioner Clinic. Five doctors fired. $10 million dollars paid back to the government. ... It was worth it." She added, "To God be the Glory".

� IT'S OFFICIAL: Texas Children's Hospital must now open a detransition clinic after it ILLEGALLY and fraudulently performed transgender operations on children The hospital must "commit to a permanent prohibition of such practices and pay $10 million in FINES." � "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the settlement is a resounding defeat for the radical gender ideology that has preyed on children under the guise of care." "The settlement gives Texas Children's Hospitals three months to open that clinic and will provide FREE care to people who want to reverse gender reassignment procedures." �� join our Facebook group for more updates https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1EHiuWKj9z/