Please join us for our FIRST 5K Run/Jog/Walk to benefit Clinic for Special Children! Enjoy a 5K, free refreshments, a silent auction, and crafts for kids among the many family-friendly activities planned for the day! Proceeds support the mission of Clinic for Special Children, a medical home for children living with rare genetic disease.   […]

Eugene and Jeanette Horning sat down with Lancaster Farming news to talk about their unique journey raising a special child living with a random gene deletion, only found in 15 other people worldwide at the time of her diagnosis. Olivia is missing a gene that facilitates the brain-muscle connection which requires her to process information […]

Dr. Katie Williams spent her last day at CSC on June 1st, traveling this week to continue her pediatric practice in her home state of Wisconsin. We would like to express our gratitude to Dr. Williams for her four years of invaluable service to the Clinic for Special Children through her devotion to the patients and families […]

Please join us for our FIRST 5K Run/Jog/Walk to benefit Clinic for Special Children! Enjoy a 5K, free refreshments, a silent auction, and crafts for kids among the many family-friendly activities planned for the day! Proceeds support the mission of Clinic for Special Children, a medical home for children living with rare genetic disease. Register […]

Published by STAT of Boston Globe Media on May 8, 2018, CSC and Dr. Kevin A. Strauss were featured in a national article highlighting financial barriers the Plain community faces in accessing specialized medical therapies and featuring CSC’s unique role in creating pathways to access for both patients of CSC and the Amish and Mennonite […]

After months of development, the CSC laboratory is proud to announce two new tests for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), tests that have significant implications for the services and care we offer to the patient families we serve. SMA is a devastating genetic disease that is found within the Plain community but also diagnosed world wide. […]

In our spring 2018 newsletter, read the intimate story of Ken and Joanna Weaver’s journey with rare genetic disease, raising four boys with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in a vision of hope, joy, and love. Also in this issue, we reveal new services offered for patients and their families, auction news, details about our upcoming […]

Published this weekend by Lancaster Newspaper and LancasterOnline, read Dr. Kevin Strauss’s special feature written about CSC’s practical application of genomic medicine to develop innovative therapies for children living with rare genetic disease, ‘Case of a Brazilian boy, genomic medicine and a county clinic.’ Read the full article here.

Each year, CSC releases an annual report, expressing gratitude to all of our supporters and relaying the impacts of their generosity through stories. Today we are releasing our 2017 report. In the report we highlight the journey of a family with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, important advances in research, and the ways we have engaged the communities […]

Midwifery Pearls: Caring for the Newborn Clinic for Special Children’s 2018 Midwife Conference Thursday, May 24th | 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Clinic for Special Children in Strasburg, PA *Please Register by May 18th This event is designed to provide midwives with the most up-to-date information, emphasizing recent developments in midwifery healthcare practice and […]