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How a Cystic Fibrosis Drug Given Prenatally Changed the Lives of One Family
Giving a new cystic fibrosis medication to a pregnant woman who carries the gene for the disease was unexpectedly beneficial for her fetus, a Stanford Medicine team found.
‘It’s Listening’: Addressing Maternal Health Disparities
Throughout her career and her life, Irogue Igbinosa, MD, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, has always noticed disparities in health outcomes for pregnant Black women. It’s an issue she’s now working to address.
The Novel Idea of Reading to Infants: How an Annual Reading Program Helps NICU Babies and Caregivers
George Rivosecchi says Stanford Medicine Children’s Health NICU Reading Program provides him and his daughter a great bonding experience.
Back to School: Jason Yeatman on How Children Learn to Read
An expert answers questions that parents may have about how children learn to read and how to identify when a child is struggling.
Predicting the Best Treatment for Young Ulcerative Colitis Patients
Children and teens with ulcerative colitis have many more treatment options than a decade ago,… Read more »
$1 Million Gift to Provide Major Benefits for Nursing Science and Well-Being Programs
Several key programs and initiatives supporting nurses and their patients at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford are receiving a big boost, thanks to a $1 million gift from an anonymous donor.
Stanford Research Uncovers Health Risks for Mothers Giving Birth in Two-Mom Families
A recently published study outlines several pregnancy and birth risks for mothers in two-mom families. Certain complications, including serious conditions such as postpartum hemorrhage, were substantially more common in these mothers.
Changing Infant Care to Improve Newborns’ Health in India
Modifying traditional infant massages led to more weight gain and fewer illnesses among newborns in a Stanford-led community study in India.
Premature Babies’ Survival Rate is Climbing, Study Says
A comprehensive new study of premature babies in the United States is helping redefine what it means for a premature infant to survive.
From Loss Comes Hope: Early Clinical Trial Results Show Promise for Treating Pediatric Brain Tumor
When Jace Ward came to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford to join a clinical trial for a novel therapy, he had been fighting a deadly brainstem tumor for more than a year. A group of Stanford scientists published data from the trial Ward joined.
Stanford Team Finds Benefits to Online Autism Treatment
In the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, Stanford Medicine researchers had to pause a study of autism treatment in preschoolers. The halt was stressful for kids and their families, so a team of pediatric psychologists pivoted to offering the treatment online.
Names on Surgical Caps Boost Communication During C-sections, Study Finds
New Stanford research finds labeled surgical caps improve communication among patients and health care providers during C-sections.
Tara and Dave Dollinger Give $2.4 Million to Build Out Biorepository That Will Provide Clues to a Rare Illness
Tara and Dave Dollinger recently donated $2.4 million to assist the efforts of Jennifer Frankovich, MD, MS and collaborating scientists.
Language Nutrition in the NICU
Fall into Reading is a NICU event created to encourage parents to talk to their infants for a positive impact on their baby’s development.
Virtual Pitch Competition Recognizes Pediatric Device Innovators
Seed funding awarded to start-ups working to develop health technology for children.
Storytime at NICU
Stanford researchers seek to demonstrate how parents talking can influence healthy development in preterm babies.
Closing the Gap for the Littlest Patients Who Need Long-Term Care
The Stanford doctors fuel California’s HRIF state initiative through research revealing gaps in high risk infant follow up care referrals, and among certain sociodemographic groups.
Stanford Trial Shows Parents Can Learn Therapy to Help Their Children With Autism Learn to Speak
When James Pim was small, he struggled to express himself. His mom enrolled in a Stanford trial of an autism therapy called pivotal response treatment with the hope that she could help him understand how to use words to communicate.
Minor heart defects at birth shown to increase risk for cardiac disease risk later in life, Stanford study finds
Being born with a minor heart defect is a surprisingly big deal in the long… Read more »
A decade of advances in prematurity research at Stanford
Babies who are born prematurely, arriving three or more weeks early, face a variety of… Read more »
How to feed the smallest preemies
A new toolkit from the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative, co-authored by a panel that included three Stanford experts, will help spread the latest research on preemie nutrition to doctors around the world.
Excitement brews around promise of gene editing
Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD, is leading clinical research for CRISPR at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and hopes to launch Stanford’s first clinical trial of CRISPR next year.
Christopher Almond, MD discusses pediatric heart pump trial
Stanford is leading a multisite study of a new ventricular assist device for children who are awaiting heart transplantation.
Recent study highlights California teens’ misconceptions about marijuana
Thanks to years of public health education, cigarette smoking is on the decline for teens. Marijuana use hasn’t changed, with around 20 percent of 12th graders reporting they’ve recently smoked marijuana.
New hormone helps explain how high-fat diets make us fatter
A Stanford team published their discovery of a hormone that signals when the body needs more fat stores. It sends its message in response to two external signals that we already knew could make people fatter.
The long awaited and newly FDA-approved ‘artificial pancreas’ for type 1 diabetes has arrived
Doctors at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford led the way in testing the device and are currently in the next phase of studying the technology in younger children.
New cystic fibrosis screening test developed at Stanford
Stanford researchers have invented a new technique to detect cystic fibrosis in infants. The test, described in a paper published today in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, is more comprehensive, faster and cheaper than current newborn screening methods.
Girls with autism show behavior and brain differences compared to boys, Stanford study finds
Girls with autism tend to have less severe manifestations of one of the disorder’s core features, repetitive and restricted behavior, and they show brain-scan differences from boys that help explain the discrepancy, a new Stanford study has found.
A serendipitous save that changed treatment of the most common tumor of infancy
Serendipity played a key role in the success of Isabella Manley’s treatment for a life-threatening tumor that made it difficult for her to breathe.
Reading, writing, arithmetic, and now, yoga
Integrating mindfulness into regular curriculum in the Ravenswood City School District
Dietary supplement helps lung function in cystic fibrosis patients, Stanford/Packard study finds
Life expectancy for people with cystic fibrosis has improved dramatically in the last few decades, but those with CF still struggle with a very basic action: breathing easily. However, a new study indicates that a specific dietary supplement might stave off the decline in lung function that characterizes this genetic disease.
Stanford/VA study finds link between PTSD and premature birth
Scientists have long suspected that post-traumatic stress disorder raises a pregnant woman’s risk of giving birth prematurely. Now, new research from Stanford and the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs confirms these suspicions.
