4-year-old Jack was born with a congenital heart defect, and by the time he was 10 months old had undergone five cardiac operations — including two while in his mother's womb — but still faced serious potential heart problems. A revolutionary procedure, the first to be done in New England, has forged a new path for him. Read more from Boston Globe Media below 👇
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Boston Children's Hospital is a 404-bed comprehensive center for pediatric health care. As one of the largest pediatric medical centers in the United States, Boston Children's offers a complete range of health care services for children from birth through 21 years of age. (Our services can begin interventions at 15 weeks gestation and in some situations we also treat adults.) We have approximately 25,000 inpatient admissions each year and our 200+ specialized clinical programs schedule 557,000 visits annually. Last year, the hospital performed more than 26,500 surgical procedures and 214,000 radiological examinations. Our team of physicians and nurses has been recognized by a number of independent organizations for overall excellence, and we're proud to share some notable examples with you here.
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- Hospitals and Health Care
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- 10,001+ employees
- Headquarters
- Boston, MA
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1869
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- Research, Patient Services, Technology, Pediatrics, Hospital, and Innovation
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Employees at Boston Children's Hospital
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Andreas Ramos
Author of 22+ books on digital marketing | Adjunct Professor | Teach university-level AI-powered digital marketing at Omnes, CSTU, DMAnc | Graduate,…
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Chris Newell
Senior Director Organizational Development at Boston Children's Hospital
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Walter Pressey
Independent Director, Forsyth Institute
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Michael Edson
IT Manager, Virtual Care and DH Emerging Tech
Updates
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This week, the United States Surgeon General declared gun violence a public health crisis. Our Dr. Lois Lee and pediatricians from across the U.S. met with the Surgeon General last year to raise awareness on firearm violence research and public health interventions. Learn more about this advisory and insights from Dr. Lee in Science News Magazine. http://ms.spr.ly/6045YhTuc
Calling gun violence a public health crisis is a 'first step' to fight it
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Only a third of children with obsessive-compulsive disorder do well with current medications. Neurologists, psychiatrists, and neuroscientists at Boston Children’s are teaming up to explore a new approach — one that focuses on the intestinal microbiome and potential dietary interventions that would bring the intestine’s microbes into a healthful balance. 👇
Probing the microbiome in OCD and tic disorders - Boston Children's Answers
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Congratulations to Molly Wilson-Murphy, MD, in Boston Children’s Neuroimmunology Center! Her poster, “Neurologic and psychiatric symptoms of long COVID in a pediatric neurology clinic,” recently won first prize in the neuro-infectious disease category at this year’s International Child Neurology Congress in Cape Town, South Africa. 👏 http://ms.spr.ly/6043YAX8x
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Scientists have been trying to create platelets artificially for a long time. In 1999, Joseph Italiano's lab discovered that megakaryocytes make platelets by extending proplatelets. A recent study led by Isabelle Becker and Adrian Wilkie, Ph.D. found that after cell division, megakaryocytes form clusters like cancer cells, which helps in making platelets. They also found that a protein called KIFC1 controls this process and could be a target for treatment. 👇
Cell cycle–dependent centrosome clustering precedes proplatelet formation
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The rise in childhood obesity requires new solutions. Join us on Boston Children’s Answers Parentcast as Dr. Jennifer Arnold and Dr. Margaret Stefater Richards discuss the role of weight loss medication in treating childhood obesity. 🎙️👉 http://ms.spr.ly/6043Y2FlU
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Check out this fascinating article from Harvard Medical School about the sense of touch —understudied compared to our other senses. At Boston Children’s, child neurologist April Levin is studying touch as it relates to neurodevelopmental conditions like autism. While many children with autism are hypersensitive to touch, others have touch hyposensitivity, she says. 👇
Exploring Our Sense of Touch from Every Angle
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A study led by Ryan Brewster, MD, gives pause about using machine translation programs to translate medical discharge instructions for non-English-speaking families. The team had 20 sets of discharge instructions translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and Haitian Creole by professional translation services, Google Translate, and ChatGPT-4.0. While the machine translators performed OK for Spanish and Portuguese, they did less well with Haitian Creole. 👇
Performance of ChatGPT and Google Translate for Pediatric Discharge Instruction Translation
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Warm congratulations to Robert Langer, ScD, who has received the prestigious and well-deserved Kavli award in Nanoscience. 👏 As a postdoc in the lab of Judah Folkman, MD, he made innovative contributions to the fledgling field of angiogenesis. Bob is now a long-time MIT faculty member, but we’re delighted to have him on our Board of Trustees, where he chairs the Research Committee. At the end of his bio, be sure to click to read his inspiring life story. 👇
Kavli Prize Laureate Robert Langer
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Tomorrow is World Sickle Cell Day! As we share facts about sickle cell disease (SCD), we’re also highlighting important research that’s led to two approved gene therapies for SCD. One of them, Casgevy, has deep scientific roots at Boston Children’s, with research being led by our doctors over decades. It works by increasing production of the fetal form of hemoglobin and reducing production of the adult form hemoglobin. Read more about how this groundbreaking research is changing the lives of people with SCD. 👇
Sickle cell gene therapy: 75 years of science - Boston Children's Answers
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