| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.09.2024 | CobiCure Launches Fellowship Program to Bridge Gaps in Pediatric MedTech Innovation | NEW YORK, Sept. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CobiCure, LLC, a philanthropically funded non-profit company in the Advancium Health Network, is excited to announce the CobiCure Fellowship for Pediatric MedTech Innovation. This initiative, in coll... |
| 27.08.2024 | AI reading app Ello donates iPads, books, and services to two hospitals | Ello will help the hospitals offer school programs to chronically ill children
There's been a lot of talk about learning loss for children during the pandemic, and the lingering effects, but the same problem arises for chronically ill child... |
| 26.06.2024 | AWS Invests $10M to Fight Childhood Diseases with GenAI & Cloud Innovation | Lila, alongside her mom Nicole in 2022
What You Should Know:
– Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a significant $10M commitment to propel research for pediatric healthcare and unlock a deeper understanding of rare childhood diseases.
– The... |
| 25.06.2024 | Children’s National Hospital Expands Use of Laudio Platform to Empower Nurse Educators and Combat Burnout | What You Should Know:
– Laudio, a leader in frontline leader solutions for healthcare systems, announced today the expansion of its partnership with Children’s National Hospital, the premier pediatric health system in the Washington, D.C. a... |
| 24.06.2024 | WWPR Announces 2024 Emerging Leaders Awards Winners | On June 18, Washington Women in Public Relations (WWPR), a professional society for female communicators in the greater capital area, named its 2024 class of Emerging Leaders Awards (ELAs). The seven winners were selected from a diverse and... |
| 21.05.2024 | DC Medicaid Becomes the First Medicaid Plan to Cover the Nerivio® REN Wearable, a Non-Drug Treatment for Migraine | This represents the second federally funded insurance plan, after the Veteran Administration (VA), to cover the innovative therapy
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. and NETANYA, Israel, May 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Theranica, a neuromodulation therapeutics... |
| 13.03.2024 | Nathan Kuppermann, M.D., M.P.H., named chief academic officer and chair of Pediatrics at Children’s National Hospital | - |
| 13.03.2024 | Jacqueline Saito, M.D., named chief quality and safety officer and VP for Medical Affairs at Children’s National | - |
| 13.03.2024 | Wayne J. Franklin, M.D., F.A.C.C., named senior vice president of the Children’s National Heart Center | - |
| 21.06.2023 | CHILDREN’S NATIONAL HOSPITAL RECEIVES $96 MILLION INVESTMENT FOR RARE PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH & CARE | - |
| 04.05.2023 | Novel Genetic Screening Tool Offers Hope for Babies Born With Life-Threatening Metabolic Disorder | “Now that we have shown that our technology can produce accurate results for OTC deficiency, we are applying it to other rare metabolic diseases.” Russell Lo, PNRI Senior Research Project Specialist and study lead author
SEATTLE (PRWEB) May... |
| 30.11.2022 | Exposure to Zika Virus in Womb Might Alter Kids' Development | WEDNESDAY, Nov. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Children exposed to the Zika virus may need more support as they start school, even if they were not diagnosed with Zika-related birth defects and congenital Zika syndrome (CZS), a new study sugg... |
| 27.09.2022 | Draper Advances Growth-Adaptive Pediatric Heart Valve with Sutureless Adhesive | Draper engineers are developing the Low-force Expanding/Adaptable Pediatric (LEAP) Valve—the first heart valve that can grow with the patient. Credit: Draper “Draper is helping children, families and physicians through the development of th... |
| 13.09.2022 | Privacy concerns prompt states to reexamine storing newborns' heel blood tests | Close to 4 million babies are born in the United States every year, and within their first 48 hours nearly all are pricked in the heel so their blood can be tested for dozens of life-threatening genetic and metabolic problems. The heel-stic... |
| 23.08.2022 | Poor healthcare cybersecurity is a threat to public health | Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here.
When it comes to cybersecurity, U.S. healthcare facilities are in critical condition.
Patient and enterprise data is a ... |
| 16.06.2022 | The Cancer Grand Challenges Program Awards $100 Million To Four Research Teams | The Cancer Grand Challenges program is a global effort that aims to tackle what experts have ... [+] identified as the biggest challenges associated with the disease. getty |
| 14.02.2022 | Management of Pediatric Clinical Trials Calls for Urgent Technological Innovation | Of the 93% of the overall American population affected by rare diseases, 50% are children. Meanwhile, the time it takes for a patient to get an accurate rare disease diagnosis is six to eight years. A consultative and collaborative human-ce... |
| 27.10.2021 | Children’s National Hospital Launches $500 Million Campaign to Transform Pediatric Health | WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Children’s National Hospital today announced a campaign to raise $500 million by 2023 to deliver lifesaving care and research for kids. follow the leader is the hospital’s first comprehensive fu... |
| 27.10.2021 | Children's National Hospital Launches $500 Million Campaign to Transform Pediatric Health | Philanthropy will drive lifesaving solutions for children and families
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Children’s National Hospital today announced a campaign to raise $500 million by 2023 to deliver lifesaving care and resear... |
| 29.09.2021 | Sonavi Labs CEO Ellington West named to 2021 Inc. Female Founders 100 list | Right alongside Stacey Abrams and Reshma Saujani, Baltimore entrepreneur Ellington West is highlighted on this year’s Inc. Female Founders 100 list.
West is the CEO of Sonavi Labs, a company that is bringing a digital stethoscope, called Fe... |
| 30.08.2021 | Amazon com : You can help fund pediatric cancer research with Amazon Goes Gold | Amazon Goes Gold helps fund pediatric cancer research, and we're celebrating the campaign's fifth year by highlighting important research over the last five years-and one doctor's hope for the future.
Dr. Catherine Bollard has seen the dama... |
| 08.06.2021 | Children's National Hospital celebrates incoming residency class that's three times more diverse than the national average | |
| 11.02.2021 | It’s time to fast track innovation in medical devices for children | When a baby arrived at Children’s National Hospital with a critically underdeveloped heart, it was clear to her care team that she needed surgery. But they had a dilemma: At less than 6 pounds, she wasn’t strong enough to undergo surgery bu... |
| 09.11.2020 | E-cigarettes can be a 'gateway' to conventional cigarette smoking for teens who had no prior intention to smoke, study finds | |
| 28.11.2018 | A dispatch from the front lines of a ‘mystery’ disease: acute flaccid myelitis | To parents and the press, the “new” disease that is paralyzing kids is a mystery. Media coverage of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), which causes sudden limb weakness and paralysis in children, has given families the impression that health car... |
| 13.10.2017 | Chutes & Ladders—Bristol-Myers recruits former Delinia CEO for R&D leadership | Welcome to this week's Chutes and Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please send the good word—or the bad—from your shop to Eric Sagonowsky (email) or Angus Liu (email) and we will feature it her... |
| 13.10.2017 | Chutes & Ladders—Bristol-Myers recruits former Delinia CEO for R&D leadership
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| 19.08.2017 | Four intriguing biopharma developments this week | Alzeca Biosciences in Houston closed an $11 million Series A round to advance an imaging technology for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease it regards as a cheaper alternative to PET scans. Nanoparticles bind to amyloid plaque in the bra... |
| 08.03.2017 | UMD Students Raise $1 Million for Children's National | More than 3,000 University of Maryland students raised a record $1,001,394 at the eighth annual Terp Thon dance marathon on Saturday. This was a 38 percent increase from the previous year and made Terp Thon the nation's ninth largest dance ... |
| 27.09.2016 | These two DC companies are university startups to watch | Given D.C.’s bevy of academic institutions and growing entrepreneurial scene, it makes sense that tech transfer is taking place in the city. In fact, two D.C.-based companies working to create commercial success around science and technolog... |
| 26.07.2016 | Children’s National looks to commercialize innovations from Bear Institute | The health system said that the institute helped reduce IT-related operating expenses by $1 million in 2015. Nearly a quarter of that came in transcription savings from using Nuance Communications’ Dragon Medical speech-recognition software... |
| 18.11.2015 | Study: PAs, NPs do more e-prescribing in pediatric ED | Lead poster author Dr. Mordechai Raskas, a fellow in pediatric emergency medicine at the hospital, attributed the difference to several factors, one of which seems to have been an oversight.
When e-prescribing, practitioners have to ask pat... |
| 24.07.2015 | How can we derisk innovation in pediatric medical devices? | Challenges in surgical innovation
Millions of adults have cardiomyopathy – an inherited disease of the heart muscle that at times needs surgical intervention. About 100,000 children have the same condition, but there’s no treatment tailored... |
| 07.05.2015 | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation putting $75M toward disease surveillance, Roche gets FDA approval for venetoclax (Morning Read) | LIFE SCIENCE
Adaptimmune, a UK-based biotech using T-cell therapy to treat cancer and infectious disease, raised $191 million in its IPO. The company priced 11.3 million shares at the high end of the range ($17 per share) for a market cap o... |
| 09.12.2014 | Ophthalmologist finds another way to be a rock star | Happy to fix things, Hunter realigns a strike plate on a balcony door. (Photo: Constance West, MD)
By Lisa Fratt
David G. Hunter, MD, PhD, dreamed of a career as a rock star. Instead, he became Boston Children’s Hospital’s ophthalmologist-i... |
| 08.05.2012 | One hospital’s solution to improving the OR waiting area? Texting. | Six months ago, members of the surgery team at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington D.C. set out to fix the gap in communication they experienced with families who had to wait anxiously for hours as their children underwent surg... |
| 07.12.2011 | 10 startups from mHealth 2011: CareSpeak Communications | More than 40 seed and early stage companies took to the showroom floor at this year’s mHealth Summit in Washington D.C., which ended Wednesday. Many were sponsored by incubators including StartUp Health and Rock Health. This is one of a ser... |
| - | RealLIST Engineers 2022: These 15 tech leaders are making their mark on the DMV | Who’s building DC’s innovation future? We’ll tell you.
It’s that time again — the time marking the culmination of our weeks of knocking on doors, sliding into DMs and asking anyone and everyone about the unsung heroes of the DC tech scene. ... |
| - | One hospital’s solution to improving the OR waiting area? Texting. | Six months ago, members of the surgery team at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington D.C. set out to fix the gap in communication they experienced with families who had to wait anxiously for hours as their children underwent surg... |
| - | 10 startups from mHealth 2011: CareSpeak Communications | More than 40 seed and early stage companies took to the showroom floor at this year’s mHealth Summit in Washington D.C., which ended Wednesday. Many were sponsored by incubators including StartUp Health and Rock Health. This is one of a ser... |
| - | Children’s National looks to commercialize innovations from Bear Institute | While many hospitals contemplate starting up innovation centers, Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C., is showing concrete results from its three-year-old Bear Institute for Health Innovation. Now, with the help of electron... |
| - | Study: PAs, NPs do more e-prescribing in pediatric ED | Perhaps it’s workflow, perhaps it’s culture, perhaps it’s just the nature of the setting, but physician assistants and nurse practitioners have been e-prescribing at a higher rate than physicians in the emergency department of one major ped... |
| - | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation putting $75M toward disease surveillance, Roche gets FDA approval for venetoclax (Morning Read) | TOP STORIES
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is investing up to $75 million in a network of disease surveillance sites in developing countries to rapidly gather better data, about how, where and why children are getting sick and dying,... |
| - | How can we derisk innovation in pediatric medical devices? | Sometimes, kids need intensive medical treatment – and the tools used for adults aren’t necessarily suitable to treat smaller, growing bodies. This presents a unique challenge for surgeons and clinicians, who find themselves with limited op... |
| - | Four intriguing biopharma developments this week | Even in the dog days of summer, it was hardly a dull week in the world of biopharma. Amidst the fallout from President Trump’s comments during and following the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville spurred an exodus from his manufactu... |
