Data from 46 severely to profoundly deaf
pediatric patients at the Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas, were analyzed.
The current five - year agreement was set to expire on June 30, but the State School Board has determined it will study the arrangement over the next year to determine the future delivery of education services at Oak Springs School, which serves
pediatric patients at the hospital.
The researchers worked with Dr. Hayat Mousa and tested the device on 11
pediatric patients at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego.
Often, the Braden Q Scale is used to help identify
pediatric patients at risk for developing these pressure - related skin injuries.
She is the manager of the Integrative Medicine Services Dréas Dream dance / movement therapy program for
pediatric patients at Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center since its inception in 2003.
Not exact matches
These events will raise funds for Chef's Lucas» non-profit organization, «Doing Good with Food» that serves
pediatric cancer
patients and their families via restaurants and chef - designed meal kits for cooking
at home.
«We like to think of Lucas as our Chief Inspiration Officer and know that not only are we inspiring a new generation of cooks and consumers, but we are supporting his efforts to raise funds to serve
pediatric cancer
patients and their families via restaurants and chef - designed meal kits for cooking
at home.»
Dr. Jagodzinski is a
pediatric orthopaedic surgeon who sees
patients at the Sports Medicine Center For Young Athletes in Walnut Creek.
Dr. William Sears noticed something striking about the little
patients he sees
at his
pediatric practice in San Clemente, Calif., something he figured to make the topic of the seventh book in the Sears parenting series.
«I would rather write a prescription for safe, outdoor play for my
pediatric patients than see them five years later with depression, anxiety and obesity,» says Wendy Kohatsu, MD, with Santa Rosa Family Medicine and assistant clinical professor
at the University of California in San Francisco.
Learn about the services we offer
pediatric patients and their families
at Floating Hospital for Children.
She has worked with
patients at top - ranked
pediatric hospitals, including the University of Chicago Medical Center and Lurie Children's Hospital.
The staff
at Tufts Medical Center and Floating Hospital for Children is dedicated to offering excellent medical care to every
pediatric patient.
For more than a century, Floating Hospital for Children
at Tufts Medical Center has pioneered health care for
pediatric patients.
A new study published by researchers from the University of Illinois
at Chicago suggests that the drug oseltamivir — commonly known as Tamiflu — does not cause an increased risk of suicide in
pediatric patients.
This was on vivid display for Jennifer Kalish, a
pediatric geneticist
at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, in the
patient who got her hooked on Beckwith - Wiedemann 6 years ago as a medical resident: a toddler whose left side was a shade bigger than her right.
A team led by
pediatric ophthalmologist Robert Koenekoop
at McGill University gave the medication to 14
patients with Leber congenital amaurosis, an inherited disease that causes retinal degeneration leading to blindness.
«With the subcutaneous defibrillator, we now have a way to prevent sudden cardiac arrest in
pediatric patients without having wires running through their veins and into the heart,» says Dr. Rodrigo Nehgme, electrophysiologist and cardiologist
at Arnold Palmer Hospital.
Some of the experiments included cells from SMA
patients, obtained through a collaboration with Han Phan, MD, a
pediatric neurologist
at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and the Laboratory for Translational Cell Biology
at Emory.
The study, published in the September issue of Annals of Surgery online, shows that providing pricing information upfront can influence
patient choice of surgical procedures and potentially lead to cost savings in health care, a sector of the economy that accounts for more than 17 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product, says Eric R. Scaife, M.D., senior author, associate professor of surgery and chief of
pediatric surgery
at the University of Utah (U of U) School of Medicine.
The scientists performed the tests in a laboratory setting using 100 different bacterial strains isolated from the lungs of
pediatric cystic fibrosis
patients of Seattle Children's Hospital and 42 bacterial strains isolated from hospitalized adult
patients at UPMC.
The study was conducted
at Parkland, the public health system for Dallas County, the ninth largest county by population and one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the U.S.. From Parkland's system of 10 neighborhood - based
pediatric clinics, researchers identified four clinics with the largest volume of
patients aged 11 to 18.
«Children should always be controlled by the
pediatric endocrinologist, besides being measured and weighed
at different frequencies according to their age, for early detection if the
patient has a problem of stunting,» said Maria Dolores Rodriguez Arnao specialist in
pediatric endocrinology
at Madrid's University General Hospital.
The researchers,
at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, and Washington University in St. Louis in Missouri, and led by
pediatric researcher and St. Jude's CEO James Downing, hunted for dangerous genes in 1120 cancer
patients under the age of 20.
«Some hospitals and physicians have routinely used body cooling for all
patients who experience cardiac arrest because they believed it might lead to better outcomes,» says lead author Frank Moler, M.D., the study principal investigator and
pediatric critical care physician
at U-M's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.
When Aune Hirvasniemi, a
pediatric neurologist
at the local hospital, began to track the disease in the late 1980s, she found 19
patients in a handful of families.
Tracy C. Grikscheit, MD,
pediatric surgeon and principal investigator
at The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, treats a large number of young
patients who require surgery for various intestinal diseases.
Dr. Deatrick worked with colleagues and
patients treated
at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, including Wendy Hobbie, MSN, CRNP who also provides leadership in the School's nurse practitioner concentration that focuses on
pediatric oncology.
The study reviewed
patients over a 16 - year period who were evaluated
at a
pediatric trauma center after sustaining injury while participating in ice hockey.
Health care providers can monitor bone health of
pediatric patients by ensuring that they maintain a healthy body weight, are engaging in weight bearing exercise and have adequate nutritional intake of calcium and vitamin D. Routine imaging with DXA scans is not recommended
at this time, she noted.
The researchers suggest that to improve
pediatric readmissions or revisits as a quality measurement,
patients admitted with similar diagnoses could be looked
at as a group, to increase the sample size
at each hospital and lead to the identification of more outliers.
The causes of gastrocutaneous fistulae in
pediatric patients are largely unknown, but researchers
at Boston Children's Hospital looked
at possible risk factors, including nutrition.
Experts agree the treatment is transformative for
patients with the Cheevers» form of CF. «We have just started using it in practice,» says Henry Dorkin, a
pediatric pulmonary specialist and director of the Cystic Fibrosis Center
at Children's Hospital in Boston.
And orthopaedic surgeons are often
at the forefront in deciding if a
pediatric patient needs medical imaging.
«Our team is studying high - risk
patient populations to see how often and how early we can identify a sleep disorder,» says lead author Renée Shellhaas, M.D., M.S., a
pediatric neurologist
at Mott.
Maude will also detail updated data on
pediatric ALL
patients who received CTL019, expanding on results in 59
patients presented
at the 57th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology in December 2015.
Studies show that over the last 30 years
pediatric patient survival,
at one year following liver transplant, is 90 % compared to 70 % prior to 1980.
Currently, a genomic analysis clinical trial
at the Cancer Institute is focused on those
patients with rare or poor - prognosis cancers, including
pediatric patients.
«This is the most significant advancement I have seen during my 20 years working in the field of hemophilia,» said Young, who is also a professor of Pediatrics
at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and treats the most
pediatric patients with hemophilia in California.
In the past ten years, with the bladder extrophy / epispadias self - help group and leading
pediatric urologists and
pediatric surgeons in Germany - including from the Barmherzigen Brüder
Pediatric Hospital in Regensburg as well as the universities of Mainz and Ulm - researchers
at the University of Bonn hospital have been able to gather the largest group of
patients in the world.
«
At the very least, this work should remind clinicians that we need to look beyond family history in treating and counseling
pediatric cancer
patients and their families.»
«Increasing number of children arrive
at emergency departments addicted to opioids: The number of
pediatric patients testing positive for opioid addiction or dependency in US emergency departments jumped.»
«Behind these metrics are real and serious risks to
patients» health,» says Chris Wong, MD, the paper's lead author and a
pediatric oncologist
at Dana - Farber / Boston Children's.
The Celiac Disease Center
at Columbia University Medical Center provides comprehensive medical care for adults and
pediatric patients with celiac disease, including nutrition and attention to the multiple associated conditions that occur in celiac disease.
The
pediatric hematology oncology program
at Hasbro Children's Hospital offers the highest quality, state - of - the - art treatments for
patients with a variety of blood diseases and cancers, as well as infusion services.
Removal of a fifth course of chemotherapy containing cytarabine resulted in worse overall survival and disease - free survival in
pediatric patients with low - risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML), according to the results (abstract 10515) of a pooled analysis of two Children's Oncology Group (COG) trials presented
at the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, held June 2 — 6 in Chicago.
«Many of Riverside's youngest
patients already travel to Comer Children's in Hyde Park if they need advanced specialty care, particularly from our
pediatric and neonatal intensive care units,» said John M. Cunningham, MD, chairman of the Department of Pediatrics
at the University of Chicago.
The facility, which will be located
at the Sibley Memorial Hospital on the Kimmel Cancer Center's National Capital Region campus, is scheduled for completion in 2019 and will include space and staff for treating
pediatric patients.
Overweight
pediatric cancer
patients who eat a healthy diet and exercise regularly may improve outcomes and reduce treatment side effects that cause disease, according to a review study led by researchers
at MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital.
Allison Schreiber, MS, LGC, genetic counselor within CPGH, was selected for Best Full Member Abstract for «Assessment of complexity among cancer, cardiovascular, general
pediatric / adult, and prenatal genetic counseling
at a single institute: a tool to improve efficiencies and help guide
patient volumes.»