Study: Ways to Maximize Nutrition and Growth for the Smallest Preemies

To help clinicians maximize nutrition and growth in very low birth weight infants, researchers quantified the gains and losses of different nutrition delivery practices during the transition to enteral feeds. Their results were published in The...
30-Aug-2018 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Scientists Discover How RNA Regulates Genes in Embryo That Affect Seizure Susceptibility

Scientists at the Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and colleagues discovered how a type of RNA, called Evf2 enhancer RNA, regulates key genes during a critical stage in embryonic...
22-Aug-2018 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Drug Identified That Could Reverse Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Scientists identify a safe drug that for the first time could treat – and possibly reverse – the thickening of lung artery walls in pulmonary arterial hypertension; clinical trial is expected in 2019
8-Aug-2018 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Allergic Reactions to Foods are Milder in Infants, Study Finds

Symptoms of food-induced anaphylaxis in infants are much less severe than in toddlers and older children, according to a study from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago published in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology....
10-Jul-2018 3:55 PM EDT Add to Favorites

A Lifetime Sentence: Incarceration of Parents Impacts Health of Their Children into Adulthood

Young adults who had parents incarcerated during childhood do not receive timely healthcare and have more unhealthy behaviors, Lurie Children’s researchers find
3-Jul-2018 2:50 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Scientists Create Blood with Potential for Future Treatments

Researchers develop a simple and efficient method to induce human pluripotent stem cells to become blood, which could be key in future treatments for blood disorders, immune deficiencies and cancer
28-Jun-2018 4:25 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Public Health Campaign Pays Off: Window Falls Drop by 50 Percent

In 2001, when 30 children under 5 fell out of a window, Chicago was facing a public health crisis that was preventable. By 2016, window falls were cut in half after the 2002 launch of an educational campaign called “Stop the Falls” that urges...
7-Jun-2018 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Blood Test Shows Promise for Predicting Cerebral Palsy in Preemies

As the first step toward predicting cerebral palsy in premature infants, scientists have identified a panel of microRNAs that are changed in babies who later develop abnormal muscle tone. MicroRNAs are small, noncoding RNA molecules that are...
31-May-2018 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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