Central Texas’ First Comprehensive Inpatient Rehab Unit Being Built by Dell Children’s
The region’s first comprehensive inpatient rehabilitative care center for children of all ages is expected to be ready for occupancy in May of 2013. A new tower addition to the Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas will increase capacity, expand existing specialty care services and build new programs not currently available.
St. David’s Becomes Austin’s First Certified Cord Blood Collection Center
St. David’s Medical Center has become the first hospital in Austin to join the Texas Cord Blood Bank’s (TCBB) cord blood collection program. The TCBB, a division of the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center (STBTC), is a nonprofit program established by the Texas legislature in 2001 to collect umbilical cord blood, which can benefit patients, usually children, suffering from a number of potentially fatal diseases.
Facing challenges, 14 Texas Teenage Amputees Conquer Winter Park’s Slippery Slopes
Fourteen Texas teenagers got the chance to be themselves and spend time with others on the slopes snowboarding and skiing at Winter Park’s National Sports Center for the Disabled. The group was amputee patients from the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas.
Experts Divided Over Recommendation To Screen Children For Cholesterol
One in 500 kids has an inherited disorder that causes high levels of LDL (“bad”) cholesterol that may require medication to control. However, since the problem doesn’t create observable symptoms, as many as half of these kids don’t know they have the condition.
American Airlines, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children to Fly 14 Amputee Patients to Ski at the National Sports Center for the Disabled
A group of 14 teenage amputee patients of Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children will head for the slopes of Colorado next week, thanks to American Airlines and the hospital.
Cancer sequencing project identifies potential approaches to combat aggressive leukemia
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital – Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project discovers genetic connection linking two cancers that is likely to expand treatments for patients who currently have poor prognoses.
Texas Children’s Hospital Announces FDA Approval of ‘Berlin Heart’ for Kids
Newborns, toddlers and teens who suffer from heart failure and need heart transplantation to survive just got a life-saving pediatric heart pump that buys time and allows them to grow stronger as they wait for a donor heart.
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