Latest Arkansas Children's Hospital Stories
HOUSTON, Dec. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Newborns, toddlers and teens who suffer from heart failure and need heart transplantation to survive just got a life-saving pediatric heart pump that buys time and allows them to grow stronger as they wait for a donor heart. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click...
TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- To honor Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in September, Beads of Courage, Inc., (BOC) a non-profit organization that provides innovative, arts-in-medicine supportive care for children coping with serious illness, their families and the healthcare providers who care for them, is launching the Beads of Courage® Beads in Space Tour and Bead Design Challenge, presented by maxIT Healthcare. BOC Children and families will be invited to see handmade...
Participants review progress of 39-month study HOUSTON, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Investigators from Texas Children's Hospital and 16 other top pediatric heart centers in North America came together in Houston to analyze results from their 39-month national clinical trial of the Berlin Heart EXCOR® Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device (VAD), a German-manufactured pediatric mechanical heart. To learn more about the study, see: http://bit.ly/bfrA1J (Photo:...
Next Step in Collaborative Efforts for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Aimed at Rapidly Improving Patient Outcomes CINCINNATI, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Building on the success of previous efforts among researchers and caregivers to improve the care of chronically ill children, a $12-million grant to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center will allow creation of a registry system unlike any before it, providing information in real time on thousands of cases around the country - and...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A longtime Little Rock public relations veteran will be honored in February for his contributions to the profession and the community. Dan McFadden, APR, director of communications for Arkansas Children's Hospital, will be awarded the Arkansas Crystal Award by the Arkansas Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). The Crystal Award is presented to a member of the Arkansas Chapter who, in the opinion of its Past...
ROGERS, Ark., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Many Northwest Arkansas children will get their first glimpse of a dentist's chair when the new Ronald McDonald Care Mobile®, the area's first mobile dental clinic, comes to their schools. The mobile clinic was unveiled at an event today at the John Q. Hammons Center in Rogers, where officials spoke about the need for access to quality dental care for children and the barriers to overall health and learning that dental disease can cause. The Ronald...
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- A surprisingly easy and low-cost system of sharing treatment information improves dramatically the health of children with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, a study released today shows. The initiative, called "ImproveCareNow," functions as an online information network, allowing caregivers to systematically collect and share data together about the latest treatment methods and their effectiveness. Creation and use of this kind of "global...
 A carefully administered daily dose of peanuts has been so successful as a therapy for peanut allergies that a select group of children is now off treatment and eating peanuts daily, report doctors at Duke University Medical Center and Arkansas Children's Hospital."It appears these children have lost their allergies," says Wesley Burks, MD, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology at Duke. "This gives other parents and children hope that we'll soon have a...
Study Suggests Genetic Approach to Personalized Screening of Anti-Rejection Drug Dosing CINCINNATI, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Screening for mutations in a gene that helps the body metabolize a kidney transplant anti-rejection drug may predict which children are at higher risk for side effects, including compromised white blood cell count or organ rejection, according to new research. Published online Feb. 18 by the Nature journal Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, the study...
