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The Boston Globe tells the story of Boston Children’s patient Sloan St. James who was diagnosed with biliary atresia and received a liver transplant after Lt. Steven Tenney found out he was a match to donate.

The Today Show reports on the pilot program at Wareham Pediatrics that provides drug counseling to patients who are struggling with addiction. The program was created by Boston Children’s Sharon Levy, MD, MPH, along with Glenn Focht, MD, and Jonas Bromberg, PsyD, from the PPOC.

The New York Times reports that a team led by Boston Children's Chief Scientific Officer David Williams, MD, have used gene therapy to stave off a fatal degenerative brain disease - adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) - an achievement that some experts had thought impossible.