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30
Jul 2024
Video Game + Anesthesia = Easier Surgery for Kids
Have a child who's anxious about surgery? One tool that might help is this video game controlled by breathing through an anesthesia mask.
By: Abby Hess, APRN, DNP | 2
Healthy Living
The Latest CGMs Provide More Freedom for Kids with Diabetes
09
Mar 2023
The Latest CGMs Provide More Freedom for Kids with Diabetes
The pace of change in technology available for managing diabetes is fast and getting faster. Learn about the CGMs that are on the market now.
By: Nicole M. Sheanon, MD, MS | 1
Research and Discoveries
Changing Care for Kids with Diabetes: How Tech Is Making an Impact
13
Nov 2020
Changing Care for Kids with Diabetes: How Tech Is Making an Impact
For kids with diabetes, advances in technology can result in better healthcare. Here’s a now-and-then look at how technology advances are changing lives for children with diabetes and their families.
By: Nicole M. Sheanon, MD, MS | 2
Research and Discoveries
Sleep Apnea with Down Syndrome: New Treatment Shows Promise
21
Feb 2020
Sleep Apnea with Down Syndrome: New Treatment Shows Promise
More than half of children and almost all adults who have Down syndrome struggle with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). This airway condition causes breathing difficulties while sleeping, and can wake those who have it anywhere from dozens to hundreds of times per night. For kids, the end result is extreme sleepiness that can lead to
By: Stacey Ishman, MD, MPH | 0
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Utilizing Technology to Aid in Speech Development
14
Mar 2017
Utilizing Technology to Aid in Speech Development
Technology-assisted language has helped Sedona, who is deaf, improve her speech development. Read about the new milestones she's reached.
By: Natalie Busch | 1
Technology
Find A Voice, Give A Voice: Elli Bennett’s Legacy
03
Aug 2015
Find A Voice, Give A Voice: Elli Bennett’s Legacy
Five more patients now have the technology they need to make their voices heard thanks, again, to the compassion and generosity of Joy and Scott Bennett. The Bennetts began funding assistive communication devices for children and adults in need shortly after their 8-year-old daughter, Elli, died on October 19, 2008. Elli had cerebral palsy and
By: Blog Editorial Team | 0
Research and Discoveries
The Universe Within: Our Communications Equipment
05
Apr 2013
The Universe Within: Our Communications Equipment
Our ability to savor the sounds of our world depends on the remarkable machinery of the inner ear, where highly sensitive hair cells convert sound waves into electric pulses that the brain translates into music, spoken language, the sounds of nature and just plain noise. Zubair Ahmed, PhD, and Saima Riazuddin, PhD, two researchers in
By: Tim Bonfield | 1
Research and Discoveries
The Universe Within: The Highways of Our Minds
11
Mar 2013
The Universe Within: The Highways of Our Minds
Much like cities and towns connected by highways and streets, the neurons in our brains are connected by nerve fibers called dendrites and axons. Neurons are supported by other neural cells called astrocytes and oligodendrocytes. Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s are studying how neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes form from neural stem cells during development and in
By: Tim Bonfield | 1
Research and Discoveries
The Universe Within: From stem cells to real tissue
23
Jan 2013
The Universe Within: From stem cells to real tissue
In late 2010, researchers at Cincinnati Children’s became the first team to successfully convert human skin cells into fully functioning intestinal tissue. This breakthrough in stem cell science eventually may allow doctors to repair organ damage by using the patient’s own cells to grow replacement tissue. This image of the functioning tissue was produced by
By: Tim Bonfield | 0
Research and Discoveries
The Universe Within: Holiday Visions
23
Dec 2012
The Universe Within: Holiday Visions
Imagine taking a fantastic voyage deep into your own eye. As you get smaller and smaller, the world around you becomes surreal. This is the developing retina of a mouse, as seen under a powerful confocal microscope. The green structures depict blood vessels reaching out to form new branches. The red objects are myeloid cells
By: Tim Bonfield | 1
Research and Discoveries
The Universe Within: Wired for Action
27
Sep 2012
The Universe Within: Wired for Action
This is your brain. Actually, this is your brain’s white matter as seen using a technique called diffusion tensor imaging. White matter and grey matter are the brain’s two main components. White matter, actually pinkish white to the naked eye, works like wiring inside the brain. The tissue transmits signals from one region of the
By: Tim Bonfield | 0
Research and Discoveries
 

04
Aug 2012
Learning from dummies
They sweat. They bleed. They moan. They make great teachers. Patient simulator mannequins play a growing role in training medical students, residents, nurses and other staff at Cincinnati Children’s, especially in critical care. Traditionally, healthcare teaches technical skills, or algorithms of care, but equally important for patient safety and positive outcomes are non-technical skills like
By: Tim Bonfield | 0
Research and Discoveries
 

24
Jul 2012
Cincinnati Children’s Awarded Research Grant to Help Predict Drug Safety
Today the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that James M. Wells, PhD at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is one of 17 investigators nationwide to receive a grant from a $13 million research fund to study the development of human tissue chips for drug screening purposes. The NIH, in collaboration with the Defense Advanced
By: Blog Editorial Team | 0
Research and Discoveries
 

29
Jun 2012
The Universe Within: Innovation Starts With An ‘Eye’
This is the compound eye of Drosophila melanogaster , more commonly known as the fruit fly. Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s use fruit flies as models to learn about the genetic and molecular roots of vision disorders.  Although the structure of a fruit fly eye appears very different than a human eye, they have a surprising
By: Tim Bonfield | 0
Research and Discoveries
 

10
Feb 2011
A booster shot for the medicine of tomorrow
It made the news in Cincinnati when the state of Ohio’s Third Frontier program awarded a $2 million grant to Cincinnati Children’s to commercially develop new biomedical discoveries from the medical center. Understandably, the grant didn’t generate much coverage outside of the city. Still, the potential significance of the grant extends well beyond Cincinnati’s borders,
By: Blog Editorial Team | 1
Research and Discoveries
 

03
Nov 2010
Working Together to Improve Treatment of ADHD
Information is power – and the sharing of information among doctors and researchers is one of the best ways to empower physicians to better diagnose and treat ADHD, a chronic condition that affects about 4.5 million children nationwide.  The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued evidence-based guidelines for ADHD care, but most pediatricians and
By: Blog Editorial Team | 0
Chronic Care Networks
 

28
Oct 2010
Enhanced registry a new chapter in chronic care
Imagine if a doctor, treating a young patient with a chronic illness, could have instant access to information from others all around the U.S. on the latest treatments and protocols, how their patients are responding, and what practices are leading to better outcomes. Imagine if that information were available in real time, as the patients
By: Blog Editorial Team | 0
Technology
 

26
May 2010
Neighborhood-specific identification of preterm birth risks
We all know computers can do amazing things. But reduce preterm births? No way, right? Well, maybe. One of our neonatologists presented research at the annual meeting of Pediatric Academic Societies earlier this month that explains how. Through computer analysis of geographical information, our researchers have begun to identify neighborhood-specific risk factors for preterm birth.
By: Kate Setter | 0
Health Care Reform
 

23
Apr 2010
HHS chief continues to trumpet health care I-T
Continuing a refrain she used during her visit to Cincinnati Children’s a couple weeks ago, Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of  Health and Human Services, told a group of reporters from across the country that making improvement in health care information technology is what the future of medicine is all about. “The investment we make in health
By: Thomas McCormally | 0
Health Care Quality
 

14
Apr 2010
Time to work on real quality in health care reform
There was a time that when the feds talked about quality in terms of Medicare and Medicaid, they were referring to fraud. If you weren’t stealing, you ran a quality program. Times have changed, thankfully. It’s still wrong to steal, of course, but today when quality health care is on the table, we’re talking about
By: Thomas McCormally | 0
Health Care Quality
 

11
Jan 2010
It’s Epic: Health Care IT and quality improvement
Something very significant happened early Sunday morning at Cincinnati Children’s. Something the patients and their families didn’t even notice. But something that was a major step toward making their care safer and more effective. The techies among us call it a giant “go live.” You may think of it as “flipping the switch.” The bottom
By: Thomas McCormally | 0
Health Care Quality
 

04
Jan 2010
A Quality New Year
The Ohio Department of Health started off the New Year on the right foot by launching a consumer-friendly website allowing people to compare quality (and eventually pricing) data of Ohio hospitals.  The ODH’s new Ohio Hospital Compare website went live January 1. While only four pediatric measures are included in this first go-round, significantly more
By: Jim Feuer | 0

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