Latest Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Stories
MIAMI, May 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- GenerationOne and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center collaborated on a 14-month clinical trial for testing mobile technology in aiding the management of teenagers with Asthma. "Mobile phones represent an appealing technology for tailoring interventions and bridging knowledge to action in adolescents but there was limited knowledge in this area. This study will serve as a basis for efforts to secure funding for a larger clinical trial to fully...
LOS ANGELES, May 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), this past weekend co-hosted a "Celebration of Safety" in conjunction with the Buckle Up for Life program, at an event held at Our Lady of Guadalupe church in East Los Angeles, California. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hispanic children are three times more likely to die in a vehicle crash than Caucasian children. To address this health disparity, Buckle Up For Life, or "Abrochate...
CINCINNATI, April 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new biomarker-based diagnostic test is more effective than the current best practice for early detection of adverse outcomes after acute kidney injury (AKI), which can be fatal for an estimated 50 percent of the critically ill patients who get the condition. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110406/MM79025LOGO) A multi-center study to be published April 26 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) reports...
The number of children receiving computed tomography (CT) scans in emergency rooms is on the rise, according to a study published online and in the June print edition of Radiology. These extra tests may expose children to adult-sized radiation doses and potential risks for cancer down the road. To study CT utilization trends in children, Dr. Larson and colleagues from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center used data frm the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey from 1995...
Experts at Cincinnati Children's Give Parents Tips on How to Tell the Difference CINCINNATI, March 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- One of the problems that parents may have during the springtime is deciphering whether their children's sneezing is due to a cold or allergies. "Runny, stuffy or itchy noses, sneezing, coughing, fatigue, and headaches can all be symptoms of both allergies and colds but when parents pay close attention to minor details they will be able to tell the...
Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have identified biomarkers of poor outcomes in preterm infants that may help identify new approaches to prevention.Ardythe Morrow, PhD, a researcher at the Cincinnati Children's Perinatal Institute, has identified a polymorphism "“ a variant in a particular DNA sequence "“ in a gene important to the development of the immune system. She found that this polymorphism raises the risk of bad outcomes in preterm infants, including...
Using fruit flies as a model to study embryo formation, scientists report in Nature Cell Biology that molecular breakdown of a protein called Bicoid is vital to normal head-to-tail patterning of the insect's offspring.Published online by the journal Dec. 19, the study shows how Bicoid is targeted for molecular degradation by a newly identified protein the researchers named Fates-shifted (Fsd). Without the interaction between Bicoid and Fsd, fruit fly embryos are improperly formed and...
ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nemours, one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, today announces the appointment of Lane F. Donnelly, MD, to the positions of Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Physician-in-Chief at Nemours Children's Hospital (NCH). He will also serve as Vice President for the health system. Additionally, Dr. Donnelly will become Chair of Radiology for the Nemours enterprise, overseeing all pediatric radiology services across the...
In two separate studies, researchers at Georgetown University and the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have been able to create pancreatic cells and intestinal tissue from human stem cells, illustrating a pair of new uses for the potent, self-replicating building blocks.In the first study, researchers at the Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) report that they were able to create insulin-secreting pancreatic islet cells from testicular tissue. The achievement, which was...
CINCINNATI, Dec. 12, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the first time, scientists have created functioning human intestinal tissue in the laboratory from pluripotent stem cells. In a study posted online Dec. 12 by Nature, scientists from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center say their findings will open the door to unprecedented studies of human intestinal development, function and disease. The process is also a significant step toward generating intestinal tissue for...
