Beyond the Heartbeats is a magazine of family stories and research journalism. It isn’t a medical provider, and nothing in it is medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment for any individual.
- Everything in this magazine, including the Research Digest, Research Gaps Spotlight, Clinician Corner, and Milestones & Therapy Notes sections, is for general information and education only.
- Please don’t use anything here to make decisions about a particular baby’s or child’s medical care. Always talk to a qualified physician, neonatologist, pediatric neurologist, or other appropriate healthcare provider about any medical concern.
- Personal essays in Family Voices describe individual experiences. They don’t represent typical outcomes, standard care, or medical fact, and shouldn’t be taken as evidence of how a condition, treatment, or care pathway will go for another family.
- Summaries of research reflect the published literature as of the date each piece was written or last reviewed, and may go out of date as new research appears.
- This magazine doesn’t currently carry out formal peer review of its research content. When a piece has been reviewed by a clinical advisor, we say so, and when it hasn’t, we say that too.
- In a medical emergency, call emergency services or your child’s doctor right away. Don’t rely on this publication for emergency guidance.
Place of publication: Nassau County, New York.
About the illustrations
The line-sketch illustrations that open our articles and mark our topics were drawn with AI assistance for Beyond the Heartbeats. They are editorial illustrations, not clinical images: they don’t show real patients, equipment, procedures or events, and they aren’t evidence for any medical claim. How we use AI is set out in our AI Use Policy.