Latest Texas Children's Hospital Stories
Kushner will serve one-year term as VP with a succession to presidency for three-year term HOUSTON, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. Jake Kushner, renowned leader in diabetes treatment and research at Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, has been elected vice president of the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR). (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120426/DC95720) With his official duties beginning fall 2012, Kushner will serve a total of...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Omnicell, Inc. (NASDAQ:OMCL), a leading provider of medication and supply management solutions and analytics software for healthcare facilities, today announced that nationally-ranked Texas Children's Hospital implemented the comprehensive Omnicell G4 platform in its newly opened 15-story landmark hospital, Texas Children's Pavilion for Women. After a decade of using Omnicell solutions throughout all campuses, the hospital...
HOUSTON, March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Children's Hospital announced the start of labor and delivery services and the arrival of its first baby, a healthy boy, at its landmark new facility, Texas Children's Pavilion for Women. The nationally-ranked children's hospital has now fully expanded into obstetrical and gynecological care with the completion of its 15-story, $575-million state-of-the-art hospital which is staffed, designed and equipped to be among the nation's...
HOUSTON, March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Texas Children's Hospital announced today that doctors recently performed a rare double organ transplant to save the life of Tyler Nelson, a 17 year old patient with cystic fibrosis. The wait is over for Nelson who has lived in Houston during a 16-month wait for a double organ transplant of lungs and liver. Tyler received those life-saving organs at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston on Feb. 29, 2012. Doctors are optimistic about...
Film event highlights healthcare challenges for pregnant women HOUSTON, March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In an effort to raise awareness about maternal and child health, Texas Children's Hospital and Every Mother Counts (EMC) are teaming up for a very special one-night event hosted by global maternal health advocate and founder of EMC, Christy Turlington Burns. The evening will include a reception screening of Turlington Burns' first documentary, No Woman, No Cry, and a...
HOUSTON, Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Simulation Center at Texas Children's Hospital has begun providing Pediatric Simulation Training for Emergency Pre-hospital Providers (Pedi-STEPPs) to members of the Houston Fire Department (HFD) EMS. A grant from the Cullen Trust for Healthcare, as well as a community benefit donation from Texas Children's Hospital will allow this innovative training to be offered free of charge to the City for 500 firefighters over the...
HOUSTON, Feb. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Physicians, researchers and a nurse from the Renal Center at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston received prominent acclaim during the 32nd( )Annual Conference on Dialysis (ADC) held Feb. 26 through 28, in San Antonio, Texas. The conference, sponsored by the University of Missouri-Columbia, convened an international group of thousands of practitioners and researchers to discuss current developments in the field of renal replacement therapies....
HOUSTON, Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As one of the country's leading medical centers diagnosing and treating fetal anomalies, Texas Children's Fetal Center is proud to announce the birth of Baby Charlotte, the team's first patient to undergo in-utero surgery for the treatment of spina bifida. Baby Charlotte's mother went into labor nearly 11 weeks after fetal closure was performed, and delivered on Saturday evening by cesarean section. Mother and baby are doing well....
Texas Children's Hospital Sponsors 2012 March for Babies HOUSTON, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In an average week, 1,001 Texas babies are born preterm, and 48 babies die before their first birthday. Prematurity is the leading cause of death for newborns, and Texas Children's Hospital wants to help change this as the Presenting Sponsor of the 2012 Houston March for Babies. To view a video about the Texas Children's sponsorship, please see:...
Innovative and sustainable design reflects best environmental building practices HOUSTON, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The building created to house the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children's Hospital, one of the world's first basic research institutes dedicated to childhood neurological diseases, has been awarded LEED Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design,...
