Cincinnati Children's researchers publish findings on potential target for leukemia treatment
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center today announced the publication of pioneering research identifying the crucial role and novel mechanism of action of the protein RhoH GTPase in the development and activation of cells critical to the immune system. The findings, along with other studies, suggest that RhoH GTPase may provide a target for therapeutic intervention in some types of leuke...Cincinnati surgeon's pediatric laparoscopic liver surgery a world first
... ... Liver cancer is rare in children--less than 150 cases are diagnosed each year compared to more than 18,000 in adults--so the dise...Verbal medical order errors reduced to zero, according to new Cincinnati Children's study
SAN FRANCISCO-- Hospitals have spent millions of dollars on computerized physician order entry systems to reduce medical errors, but a simple change in the way verbal orders are entered in the system -- so simple that it cost nothing to implement -- has reduced errors to zero, according to a new Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center study....... "By simply having the resident read back th...Cincinnati surgeons report new treatment for often-fatal injury
CINCINNATI--University of Cincinnati (UC) surgeons have developed a new, minimally invasive method for repairing a common and deadly form of aortic injury--an advance that could help reduce the number of deaths caused by auto accidents and major falls....... The potentially life-saving technique is reported by Joseph Giglia, MD, interim director of UC's division of vascular surgery, and his team...Cincinnati Children's applauds EU approval of rotavirus vaccine
CINCINNATI Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center today applauded the decision of European officials for their approval to market a rotavirus vaccine developed and tested by two researchers at Cincinnati Children's and ultimately licensed to GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Biologicals. The decision by the European Commission makes Rotarix™ the first rotavirus vaccine available to children th...Cincinnati Children's scientist wins achievement award for advances in heart disease research
CINCINNATI Jeffrey Robbins, Ph.D., a molecular cardiovascular biologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, will be honored with one of the most prestigious awards given by the American Heart Association, the 2005 Research Achievement Award, which is presented annually for achievements in cardiovascular research.... ...Dr. Robbins is a specialist in molecular cardiology, a branch o...Univ. of Cincinnati receives $17.4 million grant to lead stroke study
CINCINNATI--The University of Cincinnati (UC) Academic Health Center has received $17.4 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to coordinate a five-year, international study of alternative treatments for acute ischemic stroke.... ... ......The study, to be led by Joseph Broderick, MD, chair of UC's neurology department, and Thomas Tomsick, MD, director of neuroradiology, will be the...