Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

209 articles with Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

• A New First: Creating Organoids with Immune Systems

  1/26/2023

  In many ways, our intestines serve as the front gate between our bodies and the world around us. They help digest our food and absorb our medications. They send alarm signals when harmful bacteria, viruses, and allergens invade.

• Screen Usage Linked to Differences in Brain Structure in Young Children

  11/10/2022

  A growing body of evidence has found that teen brains can be structurally changed by spending long spans of time playing games, watching videos and other activities on digital screens.

• Why Type 2 Diabetes Leads to Liver Damage for Some, Not Others

  10/13/2022

  One the many unhealthy outcomes of America's state of obesity occurs when people start building up excess fat around their liver, a condition called non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

• Animal 'Bioreactor' Produces High-Quality Cells for Bone Marrow Transplantation

  9/30/2022

  In an important proof-of-concept study in the field of xenotransplantation, experts at Cincinnati Children's have demonstrated that embryos from interspecies chimeras can be used as bioreactors to produce bone marrow cells needed for transplant procedures to treat leukemias and other blood disorders.

• Fecal Transplants Appear Crucial to Protecting Newborns After Receiving Antibiotics

  6/15/2022

  Antibiotics are among the most powerful superheroes of medicine. From the introduction of penicillin in the 1930s to the dramatic rescues that occur when doctors use strong antibiotics like vancomycin to combat "superbugs," many people know that bacteria-slaying antibiotics have saved uncounted lives from deadly infections.

• Pregnant Women Produce Super Antibodies to Protect Newborns, Now Scientists Know How

  6/8/2022

  Scientists discovered years ago that newborn infants depend upon immune components transferred from their mothers to survive the onslaught of pathogens that begin invading their bodies as soon as they are born.

• Cardiac Atrophy Findings May Set Course for Preventing Harm from Long Space Flights

  6/24/2021

  In many situations, heart muscle cells do not respond to external stresses in the same ways that skeletal muscle cells do.

• Study reveals potential new way to burn fat faster

  5/18/2021

  Multi-center team led by scientists at Cincinnati Children's reports finding a 'good' form of inflammation that allows mice to avoid obesity

• Cincinnati Children's Reaches New Milestone for Improving Outcomes in Babies with Spina Bifida

  4/28/2021

  Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center recently completed 100 prenatal surgical repairs to help improve the outcomes for babies with spina bifida, a rare birth defect that occurs when bones in the spine do not fully form during early pregnancy.

• Michael Fisher to retire as CEO of Cincinnati Children's

  4/20/2021

  Michael Fisher, president and CEO of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, announced he intends to retire after leading the health care system for nearly 12 years.

• Cincinnati Children's Develops Model to Help Identify Risk Factors for Reading Difficulties in Children before Kindergarten

  3/30/2021

  Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have developed a new framework for different factors influencing how a child's brain is "wired" to learn to read before kindergarten.

• Study Shows Book Developed at Cincinnati Children's Helps Identify Risks of Reading Difficulties in Preschool-Age Kids

  2/4/2021

  A study published in the journal Pediatrics expands validation evidence for a new screening tool that directly engages preschool-age children during clinic visits to assess their early literacy skills.

• FARE Announces Key Partnerships in Crusade to Advance Food Allergy Research

  1/21/2021

  FARE, the world's leading non-governmental organization engaged in food allergy advocacy and the largest private funder of food allergy research, has awarded two competitive grants to partner institutions that will bolster FARE's 2020 expansion of the FARE Clinical Network, powering advances in food allergy research.

• Doctors Find Drug for Lethal Lung Disease After Decades of Trying

  9/7/2020

  Study in NEJM, Led by Cincinnati Children's, Says Inhaled Drug Reduces Need for Invasive Lung Wash

• Cincinnati Children's: This is Your Brain…on Sunlight

  9/2/2020

  Light-sensing cells deep inside brain tissue play a larger role in human growth, development and health than even ardent fans of the outdoors would expect

• The Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Fund, Fifth Third Bank, Trustee, Gives $1.6 Million Endowment to Support Career Development of Minority Women in Medicine and Biomedical Research

  8/12/2020

  The Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Fund, Fifth Third Bank, Trustee, has gifted Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center with $1.66 million to permanently endow the Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Scholars program.

• Cincinnati Children's HLH Research Points to Treatment for COVID-19 Cytokine Storms

  5/28/2020

  How Mice That Model Immune Disease's Cytokine Storms May Point to Solution for Global Pandemic

• Cincinnati Children's and University of Cincinnati Name New Chair of Pediatrics, Chief Medical Officer and Research Foundation Director

  5/28/2020

  Dr. Tina Cheng Committed to Research Innovation That Helps Patients, Family and Community Health   [28-May-2020]   CINCINNATI , May 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Tina L. Cheng , MD, MPH, will be the new chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine , the new chief medical officer at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

• Six COVID-19 Research Projects Launched by Cincinnati Children's

  5/26/2020

  From developing a potential vaccine based on nanoparticles to tracking how the pandemic has disrupted life for foster children, scientists at Cincinnati Children's have launched six projects aimed at understanding and defeating the virus that causes COVID-19.

• JobsOhio, University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Unveil the Cincinnati Innovation District™

  3/6/2020

  Unique public-private partnership aims to accelerate more than 15,000 STEM graduates and $2 billion in research to bring in up to 20,000 new jobs and $3 billion in annual economic impact