News tagged with pediatric trauma center
17 million US children live more than an hour away from trauma care
More than 17 million U.S. children live more than an hour away by ground or air transportation from a life-saving pediatric trauma center, according to a new study by researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ...
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Researchers discover how brain's memory center repairs damage from head injury
Researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have described for the first time how the brain's memory center repairs itself following severe trauma – a process that may explain why it is harder to bounce back after ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 31, 2011 |
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The Medical Minute: March is brain injury awareness month
March is National Brain Injury Awareness Month. Traumatic brain injuries are disruptions or changes in the way the brain functions that occur due to a blow or jolt to the head or penetrating injuries. The severity can range ...
Mar 24, 2011 |
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Stem cells may provide treatment for brain injuries
Stem cells derived from a patient's own bone marrow were safely used in pediatric patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI), according to results of a Phase I clinical trial at The University of Texas Health Science Center ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 10, 2011 |
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Laboratory-grown urethras implanted in patients, scientists report
Researchers at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues reported today on a new advance in tissue engineering. The team is the first in the world to use patients' ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 08, 2011 |
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New national study finds boxing injuries on the rise; youth head injury rates also concerning
The risk and nature of injury in the sport of boxing has generated a great deal of controversy in the medical community, especially in relation to youth boxing. A new study, conducted by researchers in the Center for Injury ...
Mar 02, 2011 |
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Whole fresh blood for transfusions may have a longer shelf life than now assumed
In a finding that may potentially improve survival from war injuries and disasters, laboratory researchers report that refrigerated whole blood may have a shelf life well beyond the current standard of 24 to 48 hours.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 23, 2011 |
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Acute anemia linked to silent strokes in children
Silent strokes, which have no immediate symptoms but could cause long-term cognitive and learning deficits, occur in a significant number of severely anemic children, especially those with sickle cell disease, according to ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 11, 2011 |
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Bloody urine after injury in children not always cause for alarm
Few things are more startling to parents than the sight of a child?s bright red-colored urine. Yet, blood in the urine? especially microscopic blood found during routine well-child visits? is fairly common, usually temporary ...
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Jan 07, 2011 |
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UTHealth studies cord blood stem cells for pediatric traumatic brain injury
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) has begun enrollment for the first Phase I safety study approved by the Food and Drug Administration to investigate the use of a child's own umbilical cord ...
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Jan 05, 2011 |
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Average child may get 7 radiation scans by age 18
(AP) -- The first large study to examine the use of X-rays, CT scans and other medical radiation in children estimates the average child will get more than seven radiation scans by age 18, a potentially worrisome trend.
Jan 03, 2011 |
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