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LONG BEACH, Calif., Nov. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recognized Miller Children's Hospital Long Beach with its Gold Medal of Honor as one of just 22 hospitals across the U.S. and the only one in a six-county area for excellence in organ donations. Miller Children's is one of just nine children's hospitals in the U.S. and the only one in California additionally honored with a Pediatric Distinction Award for its remarkable...
All Texas newborns will now be screened for immunodeficiency disorders at birth HOUSTON, Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Beginning in December 2012, all newborns in the state of Texas will be screened for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disorder (SCID) as part of the standard newborn screening panel which already screens for 28 additional disorders. In correlation with this new screening, Texas Children's Hospital announced a new Newborn Primary Immunodeficiency Disorder...
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...
TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- St. Joseph's Children's Hospital kicked off its 16th Annual "Kids Are Heroes" contest with a Passport to Safety event for nearly 70 first-grade students from Rampello Elementary School on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012, at the Tampa Bay Times Forum. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121114/DC13805) During the event, the students navigated through fun and interactive safety activities highlighting water, fire, bicycle and...
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...
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...
Beginning this week, Wall Street Journal ads and social media will drive 'tangible donation experience' PHILADELPHIA and NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Center for Autism Research at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is among The Children's Miracle Network's (CMN) "Ultimate Gift" beneficiaries for its social media-based holiday fundraising program, Give Miracles. In addition to its social media presence, ads announcing the campaign for CHOP will run...
