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    Children Born with HIV Surpass a Year of Remission After Pausing Treatment

    Four children who acquired HIV in utero have remained free of detectable HIV for more than one year, according to new findings that were presented today, March 6, at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Denver, Colo....
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    Functional Bladder Tissue Regenerated Using Bone Marrow Cells

    Scientists from Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University succeeded in regenerating fully functional urinary bladder tissue in a long-term study utilizing a...
    30-Jan-2024 1:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

    New Criteria for Sepsis in Children Based on Organ Dysfunction

    Clinician-scientists from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago were among a diverse, international group of experts tasked by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) with developing and validating new data-based criteria for...
    18-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

    Multi-Site Study Reveals Addressable Socioeconomic Barriers to Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Defects

    Prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defects – the most common birth defects in the United States – is associated with improved outcomes. Despite its importance, however, overall prevalence of prenatal diagnosis is low (12-50 percent). A...
    13-Dec-2023 11:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

    Very Early Treatment of Newborns with HIV Could Result in Medication-Free Remission for Many Babies

    An unexpectedly high percentage of children, who were born with HIV and started treatment within 48 hours of life, exhibit biomarkers by 2 years of age that may make them eligible to test for medication-free remission, according to a multinational...
    7-Dec-2023 11:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

    New Target Found for Treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy

    The lab of Yongchao C. Ma, PhD, at Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago uncovered a novel mechanism that leads to motor neuron degeneration in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
    7-Dec-2023 11:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

    More Than 1 in 10 Pediatric Ambulance Runs Are for Mental Health Emergencies

    A new study offers a novel look at the scope of the youth mental health crisis across the United States – in 2019-2020, more than 1 in 10 kids who were brought to the hospital by ambulance had a behavioral health emergency. Out of these behavioral...
    16-Nov-2023 11:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

    Emergency Departments Saw Firearm Injuries in Children Double During Pandemic

    Pediatric Emergency Department (ED) visits for firearm injuries doubled during the pandemic compared to earlier trends, according to a multicenter study published in the journal Pediatrics.
    1-Nov-2023 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites


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    Some Younger Kids May Need Screening for Anxiety in Primary Care

    Some children aged 7 years and younger may benefit from screening for anxiety in primary care, according to an editorial published in JAMA by John Walkup, MD, Chair of Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Ann & Robert H. Lurie...
    14-Oct-2022 1:05 PM EDT

    Four in 10 Chicago Parents Live in a Community with Limited Grocery Access, Linked to More Challenges in Healthy Eating for Kids

    Four in 10 parents live in a Chicago community area with limited grocery access, and they report more challenges to healthy eating for their children, such as time for sit-down family meals, cost of healthy foods, and convenience of fast food,...
    29-Jul-2019 10:05 AM EDT

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    Epilepsy in Young Children Should Be Treated as Urgently as Cancer

    Survival of childhood cancers dramatically improved through national cooperative group research and care protocols; specialists call for the same model to improve outcomes of early life epilepsies.
    28-Mar-2018 5:05 PM EDT

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    How to Survive a Visit to Santa if Your Child Feels Anxious

    Feature article quoting child psychologist on ways to survive a Santa visit if your child feels overwhelmed or anxious.
    13-Dec-2017 10:05 AM EST

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    Research at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is conducted through the Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute. The Manne Research Institute is focused on improving child health, transforming pediatric medicine and ensuring healthier futures through the relentless pursuit of knowledge. Lurie Children’s is ranked as one of the nation’s top children’s hospitals in the U.S.News & World Report. It is the pediatric training ground for Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Last year, the hospital served more than 208,000 children from 50 states and 58 countries.

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