In the days leading up to the New Year, Irene Rodriguez and her unborn daughter faced an urgent challenge that demanded a complex medical response at UCLA Health.

Dr. Sohit Kanotra helped bring back a young girl’s voice.

When Beau Needs was born prematurely with a floppy airway (tracheomalacia), he could not breathe. He needed a life-saving surgery to open up his airway.

After enduring nearly 100 procedures to keep her airway open, Nina Alvarez is adjusting to a new normal following a complex throat surgery at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital in 2019.

After enduring close to 100 procedures to keep her airway open, a central Iowa teen is seeing potential for normalcy following a complex throat surgery at the University of Iowa in 2019.

From the time she was a toddler, Crystal Rush couldn’t speak normally because of nerve damage that kept her voice box from closing properly.