Narrator: This is Science Today. At the University of California, San Francisco's Children's Hospital, medical care is tailored to the developing minds and bodies of children. Dr. Diana Farmer, a pediatric surgeon, says children have unique emotional, developmental and physiological needs and should be treated with that in mind.

Farmer: Many of just the routine things that children have to go through during a hospitalization, such as having an IV started, or an X-ray taken, are made much less scary by having people who know how to get kids through that kind of an experience.

Narrator: The University of California, San Francisco Children's Hospital conducted the world's first fetal surgery, provided the world's first neonatal intensive care nursery and has pioneering expertise in congenital heart disease.

Farmer: UCSF Children's Hospital has the advantage of having specialists in every aspect of a child's care – heart, diabetes, orthopedics, general surgery, brain surgery, anesthesia.

Narrator: For Science Today, I'm Larissa Branin.