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The Best Christmas Gift

...he success of the operation to the large number of pediatric liver transplants carried out by the hospital. Western provinces in Canada have made a decision to concentrate certain kinds of surgery in specific cities, in order to increase the quality of rare procedures. Father and son are both doing well a...

Cough and Phlegm Cause Fourfold Increase in COPD Incidence

... early events in COPD---although our colleagues in pediatric epidemiology will probably continue to claim that we are still only looking at ‘the elderly’!” Source-ewswise SRM...

RSV Hits Winnipeg Childrens Hospital

...irus (RSV) occupy all eight beds at the hospital’s pediatric intensive care unit, said Dr. Cheryl Greenberg of ...o have difficulties in keeping beds vacated in our pediatric intensive care, and currently we are not, then we certainly have contingency plans," Greenberg said....

Positively Charged Nurses, Best in Nursing Dying Children

...adelphia conducted a survey of several hundreds of pediatric nurses. The findings of the survey showed that, nu...vely, Dr. Feudtner and Ms. Santucci are experts on pediatric palliative care and members of the Hospital's Pediatric Advanced Care Team, which provides palliativ...

Childhood Obesity Linked to Foot Pain

...ited foot conditions, such as bunions, hammertoes, pediatric flatfoot and tarsal coalition, an abnormal connect...les and diets,' he says. For more information on pediatric foot and ankle conditions, or to find a foot and ankle surgeon, visit the ACFAS patient information ...

Clues to the Cause of Difficulty With Swallowing

...s many of the same kinds of tissue changes seen in pediatric asthma. Their research may lead to new drug target...carring, as well as remodeling of the esophagus in pediatric EE patients which is similar to airway remodeling found in patients with asthma," said Aceves. Rem...

Low Blood Sodium When Born Linked to Long Term Sodium Intake

...nd selecting the lowest. Each child underwent a pediatric physical examination. To estimate current sodium appetite, participants were tested for their preferred concentration of salt in soup and sugar in tea, followed by orally administered spray tests involving table salt and table sugar. Between the test...

Ear Fluid Does Not Impair Development

...ise, an internationally recognized as a pioneer in pediatric primary care research, and colleagues also showed ...e ear,” he said. His contributions have advanced pediatric medicine worldwide in the diagnosis and treatment of common childhood diseases, most notably disease...

Buckyballs Used as 'Passkey' into Cancer Cells

Scientists at Rice University and pediatric specialists at Baylor College of Medicine have dis...ren, and it is responsible for about 15 percent of pediatric cancer deaths," said Jianhua Yang. "Our findings are significant because neuroblastoma cells are wel...

Breast Growth in Boys and Herb Based Products-probable Link, Say Scientists

... research to scientists. Dr. Clifford Bloch, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of Colorado was offered a clue by a patient’s mother when she brought a her 4 year old son to get him examined for breast enlargement or gynecomastia. The doctor made a note of the fact that she was using a homeopath...

Genetic Fingerprints Identify Brain Tumors' Origins

... we need to consider when trying to understand how pediatric brain tumors form." Researchers use information...n recent years to link normal brain development to pediatric neuro-oncology, and these findings affirm that as a necessary approach," Gutmann says. "We won't ful...

Study Reveals 1.6 Million Pediatric Soccer Injuries

...he first comprehensive look at the total number of pediatric soccer-related injuries seen in emergency rooms ac...m 96,200 to 136,600 injuries annually. The overall pediatric soccer-related injury rate hit a peak in 2000 with approximately two injuries per 1,000 children in ...

Parasomnias are Common in Children: Study

...son and Pack, clinicians should be aware that many pediatric parasomnias are benign, self-limited and may not persist into late childhood or adolescence. The bottom line, said the authors, is that the parents need to monitor their child’s sleep patterns and, if a problem persists, consult with the child’s pe...

Is Extreme Irritability - a Childhood Bipolar Disorder?

... of two debilitating //childhood mental disorders, pediatric bipolar disorder (BD) and severe mood dysregulatio...D are often treated as if they have BD. Defining pediatric BD is a major issue in child psychiatry, because the disorder tends to be severe in this age group a...

High BP – More Common in Sedentary Teen

...d study leader Nicolas Stettler, M.D., M.S.C.E., a pediatric nutrition specialist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The team reported on their study of 4,500 American adolescents in the February issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health. They found that sedentary activities and higher body mass ind...

Gene Found for Rare Disorder May Reveal New Pathway in Mental Retardation

... study leader Ian D. Krantz, M.D., a specialist in pediatric genetics at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Krantz and his co-author, Laird S. Jackson, M.D., of Drexel University College of Medicine, led the study team that announced the discovery of NIPBL, the first gene known to cause CdLS, in 2004...

Record Donation to Children’s Hospita

... American children's hospital, will be the largest pediatric heart clinic in Canada. The remaining 5 million dollars is meant to expand infrastructure and research at the Labatt brain tumor center, which has made groundbreaking strides in the field of cancer stem cell research since it opened 10 years ago....

African-American Mothers More Likely to Deliver Prematurely

...n health, said Muglia, director of the division of pediatric endocrinology and diabetes at St. Louis Children's Hospital. So far, researchers have found a link between genes that play a role in human birth and those that determine the response to infection, but they are still working to pinpoint causes of pret...

Timeliness, a Critical Factor in Treating TTTS

...tends to be," says Dr. Crombleholme, who is also a pediatric surgeon at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. "We have to shift attention to diagnosing this earlier in the progression of the syndrome and being more aggressive about intervention. We can't conclude that one therapy is better than ano...

Strep, Psychiatric Symptoms Possibly Linked in Some Children

...isorders following strep infections in the general pediatric population,” said Loren Mell, M.D., of the University of Chicago. Mell was part of a team that published findings in 2005 that showed strep infections were associated with increased risk of obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette’s syndrome or tic di...

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