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As 2010 comes to a close, NACHRI would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of Children's Hospitals This Week, a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume next Thursday, Jan. 6,
2011.
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Girls reaching puberty increasingly early, finds US study
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Aug. 12, 2010 issue: A U.S. study shows that almost one in four black girls and one in 10 white girls had developed breasts by the age of seven. The findings are the latest in a string of
studies showing that girls in the U.S. are reaching puberty sooner, with implications both for the social and emotional wellbeing of girls as well as for their physical health in later life. Early maturation has been shown to cause low self-esteem and doubts about body image, as well as greater rates of eating problems, depression and attempted suicide. More
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The NACHRI offices will close today at 2 p.m. EST and will reopen Monday, Jan. 3, at 8:30 a.m. EST. The NACHRI staff wishes our members, supporters and friends a safe and joyful holiday weekend. We look forward to continuing to work with you as champions for children's health in the new year.
'Family-centered rounds' for pediatric patients applauded
HealthDay via Bloomberg Businessweek
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July 8, 2010 issue: Including families of hospitalized children in discussions during medical rounds improves doctor-family communication and benefits medical trainees, a new study shows. Traditionally, medical professionals on rounds left a patient's room to discuss the person's condition and care, and then returned to the room to talk with the patient and his or her family. This study found that having these discussions in
a pediatric patient's room with the family present (a practice known as family-centered rounds) is becoming more common, particularly in hospitals with large numbers of medical trainees.
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One of the most sought-after leadership consulting firms in
the healthcare industry has helped hundreds of CEO’s and senior executive teams become more effective leaders. MORE |
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Ending prematurity is the best health reform there is
The Huffington Post
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May 20, 2010 issue: Tanya could have fit into the palm of my hand. She was seven days old, but born two months too early. Glowing under her incubator's special lighting to prevent jaundice, Tanya
was covered in bandages, weighed down by needles, and breathing with the help of a ventilator. Even if she survived her underdeveloped lungs and bacterial infection, she faced the probability of a lifetime of disabilities. The cost of her care as a newborn may exceed $1 million. Her lifetime cost of care could far exceed this amount. The saddest part of this story is that for many cases such as Tanya's, risks of prematurity could be reduced or even prevented.
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Childhood trauma can shave years off life, research suggests
USA TODAY
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Aug. 19, 2010 issue: Childhood trauma can cut your life short, according to new research that shows how adversity during childhood can shave a decade or more off your life. "Our latest research shows that those reporting multiple adversities could shorten their lifespan by 7 to 15 years," Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, a health psychologist at the Ohio State University College of Medicine, told a session of the American Psychological
Association meeting.
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Obama signs historic $938 billion health care overhaul
The Associated Press via the Boston Globe
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March 25, 2010 issue: A beaming President Barack Obama signed a historic $938 billion health care overhaul that guarantees coverage for 32 million uninsured Americans and will touch nearly every citizen's life, presiding over the biggest shift in U.S. domestic policy since the 1960s and capping a divisive, yearlong debate that could define the November elections. Celebrating "a new season in America" — the signature
accomplishment of his White House so far and one denied to a line of presidents before him — Obama made the massive bill law with an East Room signing ceremony. He was joined by jubilant House and Senate Democrats as well as lesser-known people whose health care struggles have touched the president.
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"It is our mission to do what we can to make a positive difference in the lives of our patients, who are our friends and neighbors," says Greg Kealey, Director of Corporate Marketing for Monongalia Health System, Morgantown, WV. "And that
includes providing safe, healthy play amenities." MORE
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Meet Grace. She’s sleeping despite the noise from conversations, footfall, medical equipment, televisions and carts. Why? Because her room is equipped with sound masking technology. It increases speech privacy so she can talk
comfortably with her caregivers and it controls noise, helping her get the rest she needs for recovery. MORE
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The Pedz™ system from Stanley Healthcare Solutions is specifically designed to protect pediatric patients from abduction and patient flight, with a range of unique features, including a tamper-resistant tag with cut-resistant band, and the ability to remove and then reattach the tag for easy patient transfers. Learn more
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Improve security and manage visitors more professionally with EasyLobby Secure Visitor Management. Our software and systems are being used to screen, badge and track millions of visitors every month at the most prestigious Children’s Hospitals, protecting patients, staff and visitors. Affordable, and easy to install, learn
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Chronic health conditions increasing in children, study finds
Los Angeles Times
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Feb. 18, 2010 issue: More than a quarter of all U.S. children have a chronic health condition, new research suggests, a significant increase from the rate seen in earlier decades and a statistic
that looms large for the nation's efforts to subdue rising healthcare costs. But the report doesn't suggest that children are less healthy. The comprehensive look at children from 1988 through 2006 also revealed that health conditions themselves have changed.
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Apple iPad being used for healing at St. Louis Children's Hospital
KSDK - St. Louis
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June 10, 2010 issue: It's the latest tech rage: Apple's iPad. You see the tablet computers being used in coffee shops and airports. Now, the iPad is now part of the prescription for healing at a
local hospital. Brittany Butts, 11, came to St. Louis Children's Hospital as she has many times before. "Almost every night I was screaming in pain," says Brittany Butts, who is living with sickle cell anemia. When doctors got her sickle cell disease under control, this tween made one of her many trips to the playroom, where something other than the Wii caught her eye.
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Transcend's transcription/clinical documentation solutions and pediatric CARE program, assures outstanding quality/performance. Our solutions help achieve optimum cost-savings including a powerful application to extract meaningful clinical data ... Read More
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The teen brain: It's just not grown up yet
NPR
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March 4, 2010 issue: When adolescence hit Frances Jensen's sons, she often found herself wondering, like all parents of teenagers, "What were you thinking?" Like when son number one, Andrew, turned 16, dyed his hair black with red stripes and went off to school wearing studded leather and platform shoes. And his grades went south. Suddenly her own children seemed like an alien species. Jensen is a pediatric neurologist at
Children's Hospital in Boston and a Harvard expert on epilepsy, not adolescent brain development. As she coped with her boys' sour moods and their exasperating assumption that somebody else will pick up their dirty clothes, she decided to investigate what neuroscientists are discovering about teenagers' brains that makes them behave that way.
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A shot of reality
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Feb. 11, 2010 issue: Recently, the British medical journal The Lancet formally retracted a deeply flawed study that suggested a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. The 1998 study has provided fuel for the anti-vaccine movement for years. In this On The Media segment produced by National Public Radio, The Lancet's editor Richard Horton describes how
this debacle has forever changed the way the journal will deal with the scientific community and the media.
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In cancer fight, teenagers don't fit in
The New York Times
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March 18, 2010 issue: Experts say that since teenagers tend not to ask adults for help or confide about embarrassing physical changes, they are likely to receive their cancer diagnoses much later in the course of their illness than younger children. And that usually means they will require more aggressive and protracted treatments that can lead to lifelong side effects. While overall survival rates are as high as 70 to 80
percent, depending on the type of cancer, teenagers have not benefited from the huge advances in survival made by younger children and much older adults in recent decades.
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Special goggles helping sick children easily get care they need
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April 29, 2010 issue: Children generally wiggle too much for medical MRI scans to get a clear image. Sedation, with all the risks and side effects, used to be necessary. Now Primary Children's
Medical Center has found a fun way of keeping kids still without giving them medicine. Eight-year-old Andrew Felsted has been in an MRI machine more times than he can remember, but it's the past few that he's really looked forward to.
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Pediatric team targets kids' pain
The Seattle
Times
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Two surgeries on Christina Shaban's legs, just 10 months apart, were worlds different in terms of the pain the Chapel Hill, N.C., teenager endured. After a procedure last May at UNC Hospitals in which her femur was broken to begin lengthening the bone, Christina, now 14, writhed in agony. Narcotics made
no dent. For the procedure this past March, in which the femur was again broken and the knee reconstructed, Christina hurt, but nothing like before.
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