Dot Org: Press Releases http://www.staging.seattlechildrens.org/home/about_childrens/press_releases/ en-us Copyright 2009 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:19:04 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site. Children's Hospital Among Nation's Best According to U.S. News & World Report Children’s Cancer, Urology, Kidney, Respiratory, and Neurology and Neurosurgery programs recognized in nation’s top ten

Today U.S.News & World Report magazine placed Seattle Children’s Hospital among the nation’s top children’s hospitals for the 17th consecutive year. The results were announced as part of U.S.News & World Report’s annual America’s Best Children’s Hospitals issue on newsstands July 21. Children’s was ranked 4th in the country for kidney disorders, 6th for cancer, 8th for urology, 9th for respiratory disorders, and 10th for neurology and neurosurgery.

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Citalopram (Celexa), a medication commonly prescribed to children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), was no more effective than a placebo at reducing repetitive behaviors, according to a multi-site clinical trial guided by lead author Bryan H. King, MD, director of child and adolescent psychiatry at Seattle Children’s Hospital and professor and vice chair of psychiatry at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

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In a new study, young children and their adult caregivers uttered fewer vocalizations, used fewer words and engaged in fewer conversations when in the presence of audible television.

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H1N1 infections primarily among school-aged children

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(NOTE: LINK TO AUDIO PODCAST BELOW) In a pair of related studies released by Seattle Children’s Research Institute and published in the January 2009 issue of Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, researchers found that 54 percent of adolescents frequently discuss high-risk activities including sexual behavior, substance abuse or violence using MySpace, the popular social networking Web site (SNS).

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Parents magazine today placed Seattle Children’s Hospital among the nation’s top children’s hospitals for the fifth consecutive time. Children’s was ranked 13th overall, up two spots from the previous ranking, and was the only children’s hospital in the Pacific Northwest to make the list.

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A recent study in mice shows the ability of the fetal heart to grow healthy cells to compensate for cardiac tissue lost to disease.

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Seattle Children’s Hospital announced today that is has successfully performed its third minimally-invasive pulmonary valve replacement in congenital heart patients, signaling a new frontier in the use of non-surgical technology for the treatment of complex congenital heart defects.

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