UCSF Children's Hospital has been ranked among the nation's best children's hospitals in nine pediatric specialties, making it one of the top-ranked facilities in California, according to the new 2009 "America's Best Children's Hospitals" survey conducted by U.S. News & World Report.

"When I first stepped foot into a children's hospital during medical school, I felt a unique energy that I never felt before. I thrived off that energy. I realized it comes from the kids themselves."

There will never be quiet on this set — it is, after all, a busy Bay Area hospital. But that isn't stopping young patients at UCSF Children's Hospital from writing, directing, starring in and editing their own movies, all while hospitalized.

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When Maliylah Silva turned one, she still wasn't crawling and her legs were like spaghetti. Desperate for answers, Maliylah's grandmother conducted her own research, contacted UCSF and finally got a diagnosis — muscular dystrophy.