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Mission trip to India helps children with severe scoliosis
15
Feb 2013
Mission trip to India helps children with severe scoliosis
 Six children in India with complex spine deformities are standing straight and healthy today thanks to a mission trip led by surgeons from Cincinnati Children’s.The surgical team was headed by renowned spine surgeon Alvin Crawford, MD, and was organized by Shital Parikh, MD, a surgeon in our Division of Orthopedic Surgery.The team visited Parikh’s hometown
By: Tim Bonfield | 5
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12
May 2010
Our people make us who we are
We’ve written several times in this space about our global health efforts and the contributions clinicians and researchers at Cincinnati Children’s have made and are making to child health around the world. Today, we focus on our fine clinicians and researchers who were born in other countries and have chosen to be here, in Cincinnati, contributing to our efforts. We believe this diversity
By: Kate Setter | 0
Vaccines
 

10
Feb 2010
Encouraging news in global vaccine work
Stamping out disease may have seemed like nothing more than a pipe dream a few generations ago, but today we know the power of modern medicine: once common diseases like small pox and polio are now usually only mentioned in medical textbooks and documentaries on the History Channel. And we dare to dream of even
By: Thomas McCormally | 0
Health Care Public Policy
 

02
Feb 2010
Global health efforts could use the boost from DC
We obviously haven’t read the fine print of the proposed federal budget released by the Obama Administration in Washington, D.C., yesterday, but we were encouraged to read about the prospect for new funding to broaden our approach to global health. According to a story in Monday’s Wall Street Journal, the new policy will retain HIV/AIDS
By: Thomas McCormally | 1
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