The amount of blood that the heart pumps in one minute (cardiac output) can be directly measured safely in newborns by monitoring changes in blood velocity after injecting saline, indicates a paper published online Dec. 17, ...
Jan 8, 2020
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Children's National Hospital researchers for the first time have isolated bacterial extracellular vesicles from the blood of healthy donors, a critical step to better understanding the way gut bacteria communicate with the ...
Mar 18, 2020
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In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, researchers found that intravenous therapies made from virus-specific T-cells (VST) can effectively treat immunocompromised pediatric patients, far surpassing the current standard of ...
Apr 18, 2024
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Painting a sobering picture, a research team led by Children's National Hospital culled years of data demonstrating that maternal mental illness is an under-recognized contributor to the death of new mothers. They are calling ...
Feb 21, 2024
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Living with a food allergy can greatly impact a child's everyday life—from limiting participation in social activities to being treated differently by peers. While previous research indicates many kids experience food allergy-related ...
Oct 5, 2021
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More than 500 adolescent mothers, caregivers and community members have benefited from a coordinated "collective impact" model to provide support aimed at addressing the litany of strains faced by teen parents, according ...
Jun 14, 2023
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The findings of a survey of adolescent cancer patients and their families at four tertiary care U.S. pediatric hospitals showed that parents had a poor understanding of their teens' preferences for the best time to bring ...
May 22, 2020
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Training health care professionals in the skills and capacity to respond adequately to children and adults who have been exposed trauma, such as adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), is recognized as an essential need in ...
Oct 13, 2020
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During the height of the pandemic, researchers at Children's National Hospital discovered that as many as one half of children diagnosed with multisystem inflammatory disease in children (MIS-C) at the hospital developed ...
Nov 16, 2020
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A quality improvement initiative in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Children's National Hospital led to a significant reduction in treatment with intravenous vancomycin, an antibiotic used for resistant gram positive ...
Jul 1, 2020
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