A country physician-turned-innovator has created a device to help physicians resuscitate the more than 10 percent* of babies who are born not breathing. Neonatal is a growing area of global concern and has a lot of room for innovation. Already, nonprofit Helping Babies Breathe, an American Academy of Pediatrics program, educates birth attendants on how to […]
What if a horseshoe crab’s DNA contains the cure for cancer? Project Violet, a nonprofit comprised of a team of researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, are using small proteins from plants and animals, plus the inspiration of one patient, to create drugs that may combat the disease. Dr. James Olson, a pediatric […]
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As medtech gets sleeker, more mobile and all-around better looking, look to these six devices–from biosensors to exam tables–for tips to follow in device design. (Hint: pediatric medtech is winning this round, followed closely by biosensors.) [imagebrowser id=20]
Diagnosing autism spectrum disorder is often delayed because it can be tough to identify. Yet, the earlier it is diagnosed, the more likely there will be better outcomes from treatment at critical stages of development. SynapDx is developing a blood test to identify the condition in children as young as 3 years old. It has raised […]
It has to be said that when it comes to innovation, there’s loads of interesting developments in pediatrics, from intubation to telemedicine to rare diseases. The only thing is, it’s often overshadowed by the pace of developments for improving follow up care for people with chronic conditions, for example. To draw attention to some of […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who sparked a national debate about child access to organ donation took her first independent breath this week on a second set of donor lungs after her first transplant failed, the girl's family sai...
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
This company has a tempting and comforting value proposition for new parents: around-the-clock baby monitoring without so much sleep deprivation. Sensible Baby, which was born out of Startup Weekend Boston just three months ago, is hoping its high-tech onesie could calm some of parents’ anxiety around sudden infant death syndrome. SIDS is the leading cause […]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new study based on pairs of Canadian twins suggests that genetics play a strong role in how long kids sleep at night, but their environment may be more important for afternoon naps. Researchers compared sleep patterns for close to 500 sets of identical or fraternal twins. They found that […]
A pediatric drug developer has raised $3.55 million — the first tranche of a $21.5 million series C Round to advance its drug to treat infantile jaundice or hyperbilirubinemia through a phase 2 clinical trial. It initiated recruitment for the trial earlier this year. Among the investors in Trevose, Pennsylvania-based InfaCare are Longitude Capital, HealthCare […]
[WARNING: This post contains graphic images and videos] Yes, that is a child just pulled from the womb of its mother. And yes, it’s from Twitter. It’s just one of the graphic images tweeted by Memorial Hermann Health System (@houstonhospital) on Wednesday when the hospital broadcast a C-section birth through social media. Obstetrician Dr. Anne […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
An analysis of patient readmissions in pediatric hospitals found than many of the trends seen in adult hospital readmissions hold true in children’s hospitals too. On average, the analysis found that 6.5 percent of patients discharged from children’s hospital were readmitted unexpectedly within 30 days. Among conditions with the highest readmission rates, though, the numbers […]
A network of 14 hospitals collectively reduced the rate of neonatal birth trauma among deliveries in their facilities by 22 percent after the first two years of a program called the Premier Perinatal Safety Initiative. The majority of the 4 million childbirths each year in the U.S. result in healthy mothers and babies. But in […]
Ara Parseghian is most known for his 11-year run as coach of the University of Notre Dame football team, which went 95-17-4 while he was coach and won two national championships. But in his post-football life, Parseghian has created a legacy even more meaningful. The former coach (and former Cleveland Browns player) founded the Ara […]
Margaret Coughlin doesn’t believe in the phrase “content is king.” Rather, content is queen, and context is king, she likes to say. In marketing, content must be put into a strategy, Coughlin told the crowd Wednesday at the Content Marketing World Health Summit in Cleveland. For most of her career, Coughlin’s focused on brand strategy […]
Frustrated by the challenges of giving her young son his daily asthma treatments, Sarah Cota came up with an idea. Why not ease the burden of using a nebulizer by taking away the mask and using it while the child is sleeping? That’s the idea behind the JettPak, the flagship product being developed by Bend, […]