Highlights
News and Press Releases
Boston Children's Hospital's discoveries often receive attention from national and local media. Below are links to press coverage of entrepreneurs, biomedical innovations and industry/academic partnerships, as well as progress in the development of our licensed technologies. and startup companies.
Children’s Hospital Blogs:
- Vector (Science and Innovation)
- Thriving (Patient Services)
TIDO's Technology Newsletter:
- November 2011
- September 2011
- July 2011
- April 2011
- January 2011
- October 2010
- July 2010
- April 2010
- January 2010
- October 2009
Children’s Hospital in the News:
- Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Even Zebrafish Do It—Just Too Little
- Genocea licenses Children's Hospital antigens
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)