Clinical research involves the study of people, data or tissue samples to understand children’s health and diseases. It’s the foundation for medical advancement and plays a large role in improving health outcomes for children, teenagers and families.
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 30 million people in the United States have a rare disease—and about half of them are children. Sometimes rare diseases are caused by unique mutations, or changes, in a child’s genes.
If you’ve ever heard of virtual reality (VR), you may wonder what else it can be used for besides video games. In the case of children with burn injuries, a team of researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital recently discovered that it has positive effects by reducing pain.
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A parent’s worst nightmare becomes reality: their child has cancer. It happens every hour to a family like yours or mine. And no matter where they live, who their doctor is or which hospital they are going to for treatment, these kiddos have something in common: Nationwide Children’s Read More
Most parents will use a high chair at some point for their children. Given how common they are, you would think we would know if a lot of kids were injured while using them, right? Maybe not. Read More
Earlier this week we released a study about the dangers of breast milk being purchased online. Our researchers’ analyzed 100 samples of breast milk bought on a public milk-sharing website and found three in four samples contained either high levels of bacterial growth overall or contained Read More
We don’t know exactly how many women are selling and buying breast milk online, but this phenomenon has become more popular over the past several years. Read More
Imagine you had to copy a book manually by writing down every word by hand. That probably would take some time. Now imagine trying to do that with an entire set of encyclopedias; copying those would be a monumental task. Read More
Every 40 minutes in the United States, a new child is diagnosed with cancer. That means during your lunch break, one or two families were devastated. As the chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, I am determined to make a Read More
Do you have a child under the age of six? Preschool children (less than six years old) are at the highest risk for poisoning of any age group, making up near half the poisonings reported in the country. Read More
