Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute -- cancer study
... The study, led by Julie Saba, M.D., Ph.D. is the first to link the SPL enzyme to cancer, and it appears in the November issue of the Proceedings of the National...Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute new study on pregnant women & iron
Oakland, CA May 31, 2006 A new study conducted by researchers at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI), in close collaboration with scientists at the National Institute of Perinatology in Mexico, is the first to show that the current iron supplement recommendation for pregnant women who are not anemic is too high and could lead to birth complications for infants such as prematu...Children's Hospital Oakland new sickle cell research
July 6, 2005-Oakland, CA-- A new study led by a researcher at Children's Hospital & Research Center at Oakland is the first to find that an amino acid deficiency in sickle cell disease is the result of hemolysis, a process where red blood cells rupture and release their contents into the blood stream. Low availability of the amino acid arginine is associated with lung disease and death in adult...Children's Hospital, Oakland's Dr. Barbara Staggers wins prestigious award
April 15, 2005 - Berkeley, CA - Dr. Barbara Staggers, director of Adolescent Medicine at Children's Hospital & Research Center at Oakland, will be awarded the Peter E. Haas Public Service Award, one of the most prestigious honors given by the University of California, Berkeley. The award recognizes an alumnus of the university who has made "a significant voluntary public contribution to the bett...