Children's Hospital Boston
Simple motions, complex tool New robot successfully performs surgical closure in a beating heart
A new robotic device may be the solution to a longstanding surgical dilemma: how to precisely manipulate tools within the delicate tissues of a beating heart, report researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital. The team’s ...
Surgery
May 23, 2012 |
not rated yet |
0
First light: Scientists regenerate the optic nerve, restore some components of vision
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers have long tried to get the optic nerve to regenerate when injured, with some success, but no one has been able to demonstrate recovery of vision. A team at Boston Children’s Hospital ...
Medical research
May 21, 2012 |
4.9 / 5 (12) |
2
|
Building a drug delivery platform to regenerate heart tissue
(Medical Xpress) -- While current heart-attack treatments mainly try to preserve healthy heart tissue, scientists have been finding compounds that can stimulate growth of new tissue – either by getting heart muscle ...
Cardiology
May 21, 2012 |
not rated yet |
0
|
Improving body satisfaction can help prevent eating disorders and obesity
(Medical Xpress) -- In a study that examined the relationship between body dissatisfaction, body mass index (BMI) and binge eating in overweight and obese adolescent girls, Kendrin R. Sonneville, ScD, RD, researcher ...
Health
May 11, 2012 |
not rated yet |
0
Preventing autism after epilepsy
(Medical Xpress) -- Early-life seizures are known to be associated with autism, and studies indicate that about 40 percent of patients with autism also have epilepsy. A study from Boston Children’s Hospital finds a reason ...
Autism spectrum disorders
May 07, 2012 |
3 / 5 (1) |
0
|
Overlooked nighttime spikes on EEGs may reflect an underlying brain injury
Children with developmental delay or autism may have unrecognized epilepsy-like brain activity during sleep, report researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital. These nighttime electrical spikes, detectable only on EEGs, ...
Neuroscience
Apr 30, 2012 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
|
Packaging therapeutic RNAs for targeted treatment of breast cancer
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers in the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital and the Immune Disease Institute (PCMM/IDI) have developed a molecular delivery platform that overcomes one of ...
Cancer
Apr 19, 2012 |
not rated yet |
0
|
Study finds bronchiolitis severity depends on the virus, and questions the practice of rooming children together
A 16-hospital study, led by researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, is challenging common wisdom about bronchiolitis, a respiratory illness and the leading cause of hospitalization ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 04, 2012 |
not rated yet |
0
Tips for managing your child's allergies
(Medical Xpress) -- Allergy season can be a difficult time of year for many children and their parents. With spring in the air, pollen is close behind.
Health
Mar 19, 2012 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Children with gender identity disorder are at serious psychiatric risk
(Medical Xpress) -- The first study to characterize a cohort of U.S. children with diagnosed gender identity disorder, led by researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston, documents significant mental health risks as children ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 22, 2012 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
Home visits for asthma: A win for both patients and payers
Nearly 1 in 10 children have asthma, according to government statistics, and in low-income parts of Boston, nearly 16 percent of children are affected. A program called the Community Asthma Initiative (CAI), developed and ...
Health
Feb 20, 2012 |
not rated yet |
0
A single protein helps the body keep watch over the Epstein-Barr virus
Some 90 percent of people are exposed to the Epstein Barr virus (EBV) at some point in their life. Even though it is quickly cleared from the body, the virus can linger silently for years in small numbers of infected B cells. ...
Medical research
Feb 17, 2012 |
5 / 5 (1) |
1
|
To understand chromosome reshuffling, look to the genome's 3D structure
That our chromosomes can break and reshuffle pieces of themselves is nothing new; scientists have recognized this for decades, especially in cancer cells. The rules for where chromosomes are likely to break and how the broken ...
Medical research
Feb 16, 2012 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
|
Aligning the eyes: A simpler surgery for a complex condition
People with strabismus (misalignment and limited movement of one or more eyes) are often teased about their crossed-eye appearance; those with more complex, disfiguring strabismus can become socially isolated and develop ...
Other
Feb 13, 2012 |
not rated yet |
0
|
Brain MRIs may provide an early diagnostic marker for dyslexia
Children at risk for dyslexia show differences in brain activity on MRI scans even before they begin learning to read, finds a study at Children's Hospital Boston. Since developmental dyslexia responds to early intervention, ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 23, 2012 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
|
