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CHOP, a pioneer in neonatal care, established the nation's first surgical ICU for newborns and infants in 1962 PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is celebrating 50 years of caring for critically ill infants in the Harriet and Ronald Lassin Newborn/Infant Intensive Care Unit (N/IICU) with an anniversary event today. CHOP established the nation's first surgical neonatal intensive care unit in 1962 under the leadership...
PHOENIX, Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Webcast Advisory What: Announcement of a state-of-the-art pediatric medical research institute led by an internationally respected team racing to unlock genomic codes and develop new drug therapies. Their discoveries will lead to biomedical breakthroughs that will give new hope to thousands of pediatric patients facing terminal diagnoses. Who: Phoenix...
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., has developed key programs to combat pediatric asthma. The disease causes more than 3,500 asthma-related visits each at year at Le Bonheur and is the hospital's most common diagnosis. In July, the hospital received a $2.9 million Health Care Innovation Award from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to fight asthma in the community. The award was granted by the...
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota announced that it has acquired Pediatric ENT Associates effective Oct. 1. With the acquisition Pediatric ENT Associates changed its name to Children's ENT and Facial Plastic Surgery, and Children's Cleft and Craniofacial Clinic is now integrated within the new clinic. "Being a part of Children's, one of the largest pediatric health systems in the nation, offers us more resources and helps us...
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota today, along with HealthPartners, broke ground on a new shared clinic in Hugo. The clinic is one way the two organizations are working together to improve the health of children in Minnesota. The facility will house a HealthPartners clinic for patients of all ages, a night and weekend urgent care, and will also be the new home of Northeast Pediatric Clinic, currently located in Vadnais Heights...
LEXINGTON, Massachusetts, November 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPG) and Boston Children's Hospital today announced a three-year, broad research collaboration in rare diseases. The goal of the collaboration is to develop novel therapies to treat a number of rare pediatric diseases with high unmet medical need, thereby leveraging Boston Children's research expertise and Shire's development and commercialization capabilities. The partnership underscores...
HACKENSACK, N.J., Nov. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Since Hurricane Sandy struck the region, Hackensack University Medical Center has been providing emergency assistance to numerous communities throughout the state. Specifically, it has deployed the New Jersey Mobile Satellite Emergency Department (NJ-MSED) units to Bergen, Hudson, Ocean and Somerset counties, in conjunction with the NJ-EMS Task Force. On Monday, November 19, HackensackUMC, in partnership with the State of New...
BOSTON, Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sport-related concussion in child and adolescent athletes is a public health problem, with rising numbers of high-school athletes in the U.S. diagnosed with the condition. Twenty-nine states now have legislation applicable to the condition in youth extracurricular activities. Clinicians from Boston Children's Hospital authored a series of review articles published Nov. 13 in the December 2012 edition of Current Opinion in Pediatrics to...
CHICAGO, Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- When it comes to hospital stays, the rule of thumb is "take someone with you." But think about it: How are any of us really trained to watch out for our loved ones' care in the hospital? (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121113/PH11610 ) *With a 1-in-3 chance for accidental harm or death, it's no wonder everyone seems to have a "hospital story": each one is vivid proof that all of us must know what to look for and what to do to get...
Leading Researcher and Clinician to Drive Strategic Goals for World-Renowned Children's Hospital at Montefiore NEW YORK, Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University today named Judy Aschner, M.D., chair of the pediatrics department at The Children's Hospital at Montefiore and professor and university chair of pediatrics at Einstein. Aschner joins from Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at...
