Highlights
News and Press Releases
Children's Hospital's discoveries often receive attention from national and local media. Below are links to press coverage of innovations and partnerships, as well as progress in the development of our licensed technologies.
Children’s Hospital Publications:
- Vector Magazine
- Dream Magazine
Children’s Hospital in the News:
- July Technology Newsletter
- Genocea licenses Children's Hospital antigens
- Children's Technology Development Fund Year Two Kicks Off
- Anesthetic approach stops pain without affecting motor function
- Genocea licenses Children's Hospital antigens
- Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells From Patients With a Premature Aging Disorder Bring Surprises
- Protein makes cancers susceptible to chemo
- New Approach to Sickle-Cell Disease Shows Promise
- Coaxing Injured Nerve Fibers to Regenerate by Disabling 'Brakes' in the System
- TIDO's Technology Newsletter—January
- Tech-savvy surgeon a medical ambassador for repairing cardiac defects Heart doctor without borders
- A Video Game for Angry Teens
- Need a New Heart? Grow Your Own
- Electronic medical records give early warning of domestic abuse
- New iPhone app "Outbreaks Near Me" locates H1N1 (swine flu), infectious diseases
- Protein Treatment Repairs Heart Damage
- A urine test for appendicitis
- Lab Study Finds Protein That May Inhibit Cancer Spread
- Revolutionizing Health IT to Meet Patient and Physician Needs
- A medical puzzle yields cancer clue
- A new type of painkiller
- Making Genetics Count (Gene Partnership Program)
- Trimming the Fat Boosts Blood Recovery After Marrow Transplant
- Children's Researcher, Ofer Levy, M.D., PhD., Receives $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Stem Cell Protein Offers a New Cancer Target
- A New Lead for Autoimmune Disease
- Children's Hospital Boston Debuts Biomedical Technology Development Fund
- Embryo's Heartbeat Drives Blood Stem Cell Formation
- Children’s Hospital launches $1 million commercialization fund
- Meaning to a Mission--Erik Halvorsen, PhD, writes about how his daughter influenced his career
- Children's Hospital Boston Advances Cutting-Edge Technologies with its New Technology Development Fund
- George Daley, MD, PhD, provides his input regarding the existence of cancer stem cells in this Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article
- John Brownstein, PhD, explains lack of travel around the country will not prevent the spread of swine flu
- The Boston Globe reports that HealthMap, the online disease-surveillance system created by Children's researchers, is providing a constant stream of swine flu updates via the social networking site, Twitter
- Urine test may tell of breast cancer's spread
- Cholesterol-lowering Drugs May Delay Growth of Prostate Tumors (Keith Solomon, PhD, Orthopedic Surgery; Michael Freeman, PhD, Urology)
- Predicting risk of stroke from one's genetic blueprint (Marco Ramoni, PhD, Informatics)
- Billions Spent on Health IT Stimulus Could Lead to Major Boom (Ken Mandl, MD, MPH, and Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD, Informatics)
- Muscle cells that may hold a key to repairing young hearts
- Curbing a hard-to-treat leukemia (Scott Armstrong, MD, PhD, Andrei Krivtsov, PhD, and Zhaohui Feng, Hematology/Oncology)
- Can we detect autism in infants? (Charles Nelson, PhD, Developmental Medicine)
- Obesity: Reviving the promise of leptin (Umut Oczan, MD, Endocrinology)
- A Health Tech Monopoly – II
- A fast magnetic fix for sepsis?
- Metastasis-promoting Protein Identified
- Children's Hospital receives gift from Google.org to battle bugs and viruses online (John Brownstein, PhD, Clark Freifeld, Informatics)
- New insights could lead to a better pneumococcal vaccine
- Growing new blood vessels (Joyce Bischoff, PhD, Juan Melero-Martin, PhD, Vascular Biology)
- Tengion Announces Expanded European Orphan Medicinal Product Designation for Neo-Bladder Augment
- Neural stem cells may help repair spina bifida in utero
- Video game technology may help surgeons operate on beating hearts (Pedro del Nido, MD, Nikolay Vasilyev, MD, Cardiac Surgery)