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Jan 11, 2010
Quality Transformation Collaborative Effort by Hospitals Saves Childrens Lives by Eradicating Bloodstream Infections
Catheter-associated blood stream infections (CA-BSIs) are infections that occur in hospitalized children’s central venous catheters (a catheter is flexible medical tubing inserted into the body).
Sep 28, 2009
Nationwide Childrens Hospital Designated Translational Research Center in CF Foundations National Clinical Trials Network
Nationwide Childrens Hospital has been selected to serve as one of 13 special translational research centers in a network of 77 clinical trial sites that are part of the Therapeutics Development Network (TDN) of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.The translational research centers will lead the newest
Jun 18, 2009
Nationwide Childrens Hospital Earns AAHRPP Accreditation for Safe Research Practices
The Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) has awarded Nationwide Childrens Hospital full accreditation as an organization that demonstrates and emphasizes clinical study participant safeguards that surpass state and federal requirements.Nationwide
Jun 11, 2009
Study Shows Promise for New Cancer-Stopping Therapy
Researchers at Nationwide Childrens Hospital and Johns Hopkins University have discovered that delivering a small molecule that is highly expressed in normal tissues but lost in diseased cells can result in tumor suppression.MicroRNAs (miRNA) are a class of small RNA molecules that are highly
Apr 15, 2009
Gene Therapy For Muscular Dystrophy Shows Promise Beyond Safety
Researchers have cleared a safety hurdle in efforts to develop a gene therapy for a form of muscular dystrophy that disables patients by gradually weakening muscles near the hips and shoulders.
Mar 27, 2009
FSH Society Fellowship Funds Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy Research
Funding from the Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy Society FSH Society, Inc. will help researchers determine the role a seldom-studied gene plays in the development and progression of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), a debilitating muscular dystrophy often originating in the
Jan 26, 2009
Crib-Side Studies Help Struggling Newborns Go Home Without Feeding Tubes, Saves Millions in Hospital Bills
A new strategy developed in the Neonatal and Infant Feeding Disorders Program at Nationwide Childrens Hospital is helping premature infants and other newborns with severe swallowing difficulties learn to feed on their own.
Jan 26, 2009
St. Baldricks Foundation Awards $108,000 Grant to Nationwide Children's Hospital
St. Baldricks Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising money for childhood cancer research, awarded a grant of $108,000 to Nationwide Childrens Hospital.
Dec 22, 2008
Non-Invasive Method Delivers Genes to the Central Nervous System
Investigators at The Research Institute at Nationwide Childrens Hospital have identified a non-invasive method for delivering genes to the central nervous system, a strategy that penetrates the bodys protective blood-brain barrier with unprecedented success.
Nov 17, 2008
Study Finds Conduct Disorder in Adolescent Girls Associated With Family Characteristics, Parental Behaviors
Nearly 10 percent of adolescent girls in the United States meet the criteria for conduct disorder, a diagnosis describing youths who persistently exhibit behaviors that violate rules and rights of others truancy, fighting, stealing, lying, cruelty or property destruction are examples of this.