Sentences with phrase «sick children in»

Meet Good Neighbor Award nominee Kristina Rhodes, who goes the extra mile to make dreams come true for sick children in her community.

Through that experience, I learned that sick children in B.C. need extra funding and support.

Dr Sears has completed residencies at both Harvard Medical School's Children's Hospital in Boston and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, the largest children's hospital in the world.

Confirmed Keynote: Dr. Chaya Kulkarni is Director of Infant Mental Health Promotion (IMHP), a professional coalition dedicated to promoting optimal mental health outcomes for infants, based out of The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

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She completed her pre-doctoral residency at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and a post-doctoral research fellowship in the department of Pediatrics at UBC.

When Megan Evans joined The Hospital for Sick Children in 2007, also known as SickKids, there was no general counsel or equivalent position at the Toronto - based institution.

This conviction was partially due to hair - strand testing conducted by the Motherisk Drug Testing Lab at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

«We agreed in the big picture this was something the public was going to be interested in and that there was a benefit of putting it on our web site in a way everyone could have access to it rather than just waiting for individual requests,» says Megan Evans, chief legal officer and risk officer with the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

Andriessen, principal of Andriessen & Associates will also be participating in the 21st annual Amexon Annual Golf Tournament on June 20, with all net proceeds going to The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

This exciting project allowed him to work with the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto in an effort to identify new genetic mutations which not only causes ARVC in Boxers, but also in people.

This dog visits sick children in the hospital every week.

«Five to 10 percent of dogs have epilepsy compared to about 1 percent of humans,» said one of the study's authors, Dr. Berge Minassian, a neurologist and scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.

This test is offered by Dr Berge Minassian ([email protected]) at the Hospital for Sick Children in Canada, with support from the Wire - Haired Dachshund Club (WHDC) and further details can...

In 2015, the leading animal welfare charity made a similar multi-year commitment to the Paws for Hope Pet Therapy Program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

Tesco and Pan Macmillan have partnered to raise money in support of national reading charity Readathon, working to provide books for sick children in the UK's 30... Read more

This year Wrong Trousers Day celebrates the charity's 11th year of bringing this national fundraising event to support sick children in hospitals and hospices!

Rural Washington Students Connect with the World: First and second graders sent comfort quilts to hurricane victims in Puerto Rico and to sick children in Pakistan as part of one iEARN project.

Elizabeth Hope, who teaches science for the Children's Hospital School in Leicester, has also been awarded a grant of # 10,000 for her fantastic project «Science by the Bedside» which brings live science experiments directly to the bedside of sick children in hospital.

Evans, however, remained thankful he made the right decision to take on the Captain America role, which has led to him engaging in several acts of charity, visiting sick children in hospitals and also, tackling issues such as bullying and discrimination, especially politically, online.

«It won't cure children on its own, but it is a step toward saving eyes,» said Dr. Brenda Gallie, an expert on the genetics of retinoblastoma at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

Dr Adeli is currently a Senior Associate Scientist in the program in Molecular Structure and Function at the Hospital for Sick Children in the University of Toronto.

Dr Khosrow Adeli is currently a Senior Associate Scientist in the program in Molecular Structure and Function at the Hospital for Sick Children in the University of Toronto.

Using a specialized technique developed at McMaster, scientists collected and analyzed sweat samples from infants in CF clinics at the McMaster Children's Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

In work published in August in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and presented today, researchers from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, studied 11 families with Li - Fraumeni syndrome and reported that those affected had an average of 12 CNVs in their genome, compared with three in controls.

«Once we identify and characterize these cases, we can begin to study different types of treatments, long - term outcomes and root causes of the illness,» says Debra Katzman, a pediatrician at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and an author of the recent paper.

«I'm really happy because we found the same result on [chromosome] 16 using a Canadian cohort,» adds Stephen Scherer, director of The Center for Applied Genomics at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, a co-author on the second study.

In close vicinity of these two institutions are several other excellent research centers, such as Columbia University and Rockefeller University in New York City; and the Amgen Institute, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto General Hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital, and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, all affiliated to the University of Toronto.

«When these papers came out, they really turned everything on its head,» says Stephen Scherer, a geneticist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and a co-author of one of the papers.

Raymond Tellier, a microbiologist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, says the work is promising but that new studies are needed to confirm it.

«Eighty percent of them involve common biological pathways that have potential targets for future medicines,» says study investigator Ryan Yuen, research associate at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.

The study was carried out by researchers from the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City and the University of Toronto Hospital for Sick Children in Ontario, Canada.

As techniques to analyze whole genomes improve, more autism - associated mutations will be discovered, clarifying the genetic basis of the disease, says Stephen Scherer, a geneticist at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto who helped run the international study.

«With all due respect to cardiologists,» the brain «is a very, very complex organ,» says Jacob Vorstman, a Dutch pediatric psychiatrist who relocated this fall to The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.

A few years ago, however, neuroscientist Paul Frankland of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, noticed that some of the animals in his experiment actually did worse on certain memory tasks when their neuron birth rates had been ramped up.

This was the reaction of Ron Worton, chief geneticist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, to the announcement on 24 August this year that his colleagues had cloned the gene responsible for cystic fibrosis — the CF gene.

In Canada, doctors at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto reported in March this year that 13 out of 125 pregnant women exposed to workplace solvents gave birth to children with major congenital malformations, such as spina bifida or deafness.

The study is a collaboration between the University of Oslo, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, and was published in the International Journal of Epidemiology 25th October 2013.

If treatment works, it might be particularly helpful for women who drank heavily in their first trimester before realizing they were pregnant, says Joanne Rovet, who studies fetal alcohol syndrome at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

«We are relying on the idea that the stem cells will proliferate and differentiate into what we want,» says David Chitayat, a medical geneticist at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.

He contacted Susan Murch, a biochemist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and an expert in finding biomolecules in human tissues, to test the samples in a double - blind study.

«It's a great paper,» says Steven Miller, a neonatal neurologist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.

Irena Nulman and colleagues at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, contacted 120 women who years earlier had called a morning sickness hotline.

This checklist is a screening tool that picks up potential signs of trouble; it doesn't offer a diagnosis of a language delay, points out study coauthor Catherine Birken, a pediatrician at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

Though the stalemate over the NYC rent laws has prevented lawmakers from reaching a so called «Big Ugly» deal at the Capitol, plenty of lower - level bills are getting passed — including a measure that would expedite access to medical marijuana for a select group of extremely sick children in New York.

Last night it occurred to me, I have not had to stay home with sick children in a really long time.

The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, conducted an extensive 20 - year study of pregnant women, their experiences with morning sickness and the health outcomes for their babies.

The thought of a wired and squirming child was what ultimately stopped me from attempting to sedate my daughter, but if you decide it is the route for you, Dr. Jeremy Friedman, head of pediatrics at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, has this suggestion: Administer a test dose at home in the week or two preceding the trip to see if it makes your toddler drowsy or hyper.

Are there a lot of sick children in the waiting area, or are there arrangements to separate the sick children from the well - child checkups?

Dr. Sears received his pediatric training at Harvard Medical School's Children's Hospital in Boston and The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, the largest children's hospital in the world, where he served as Associate Ward Chief of the newborn nursery and Associate Professor of Pediatrics.