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Dec 08, 2010
Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Takes Aim At Unsafe Birth Spacing
OhioHealth recently received a federal grant of an estimated $2.8 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children, Youth and Families' and Family and Youth Services Bureau, for a five-year study to reduce subsequent pregnancies in teenagers.
Dec 01, 2010
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Program Seeks to Improve the Quality of our Nations Healthcare
A consortium of 11 primary organizations led by Battelle will participate in studies that will evaluate healthcare improvements in practice settings and determine how to implement successful innovations on a broader scale.
Dec 01, 2010
New National Study Examines Concussion Management in High School Sports
Each academic year, an estimated 136,000 sports-related concussions occur among high school athletes in the United States. A new study conducted by researchers at the Sports Concussion Clinic at Children’s Hospital Boston and the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute
Oct 21, 2010
NHLBI Launches Body Cooling Treatment Study for Pediatric Cardiac Arrest; Nationwide Children's Participating Clinical Center
NOTE TO EDITOR: Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio is a participating clinical center in this NIH/NHLBI study. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched the first large-scale, multicenter study to investigate
Oct 12, 2010
Cincinnati Childrens and Nationwide Childrens Collaborate to Address Improving Pediatric ADHD Care
Doctors at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Nationwide Children’s Hospital are collaborating to help pediatricians deliver better care to children with ADHD.
Oct 06, 2010
Depression During Pregnancy Increases Risk for Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight
Note to Editor: Jeffrey Bridge, MD, an investigator in the Center for Innovation in Pediatric Practice in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, was a co-author of this study on maternal depression.
Sep 30, 2010
Nationwide Childrens Hospital Investigators Receive Grant to Distinguish Bacterial Infections from Viral Infections in Infants
Octavio Ramilo, MD, chief of Infectious Diseases at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, is one of three principal investigators who will share in a five-year, $3.4 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Dr.
Sep 27, 2010
Unique Gastroenterology Procedure Developed in Adults Shows Promise in Pediatrics
The use of device-assisted enteroscopy, a technique that allows complete examination of the small bowel, may be just as successful pediatrics as it has been in adult medicine, according to a study from Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
Sep 07, 2010
Radiologists Identify and Treat Teenage Self-Injury
Using ultrasound and a minimally-invasive procedure, radiologists can identify and treat patients who engage in a disturbing self-injury behavior known as self-embedding, according to a new study published in the online edition and October print issue of the journal Radiology.
Aug 30, 2010
New Blood-Based Genomic Marker for Tuberculosis May Help Identify Patients Who Will Develop the Disease
It may soon be possible to identify patients who will develop tuberculosis, as scientists have identified changes in the blood specific to the disease.