Congratulations to Christine Sorenson, PhD, on her recent award from the National Institutes of Health – National Eye Institute (NIH-NEI). The R21 research grant of $413,875 over 2 years is for her project entitled, “Bcl-2 …
New Drug, New Hope for Cystic Fibrosis
Over 65 people gathered in person and via webcast at the UW Health Sciences Learning Center (HSLC) on Saturday, November 10, 2012, for the second Family Education Day for Cystic Fibrosis. At the event, people …
‘A Place for Kids’ in the ED
Children who need emergency care now have a place at American Family Children’s Hospital (AFCH) just for them. The new pediatric emergency unit, a separate area within the UW Hospital and Clinics Emergency Department (ED), …
Caring for the Amish Children of Wisconsin
In 1989, in a cornfield in southeastern Pennsylvania, Holmes Morton, MD, built a timber-frame clinic to care for the area’s Old Order Amish and Mennonite children, many of whom had poorly understood, complex medical problems …
Using Pulse Oximetry to Find Hidden Congenital Heart Defects
Each year in the United States, approximately 10,000 babies are born with critical congenital heart defects (CCHDs)—life-threatening anatomic problems that require surgery within the first month of birth. Fortunately, in nearly all cases, CCHDs are …
Christine Seroogy, MD, Receives Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center Award
Christine Seroogy, MD, recently received an award of $20,000 from the Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (UMASH) for her project, “Exploratory Immunologic Differences in Cord Blood from Infants Born into Farming Environments Compared …
Dr. Marlowe Eldridge Awarded $3.13 Million National Institutes of Health Grant
Marlowe Eldridge, MD, was awarded a grant of approximately $3.13 million over 5 years from the National Institutes of Health – National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, for his project, “Right Heart-Pulmonary Vascular Interactions in …
Dr. Tracy Flood: We’re Getting Fatter, and It’s Costing Us a Fortune
In 2005, obesity cost us $190 billion in obesity-related illnesses, $14 billion of which was related to kids. The military has a hard time finding recruits who are not overweight. What we previously called “adult-onset …
Juan Boriosi, MD, Receives The James Sutherland Award from MWSPR
Congratulations to Dr. Juan Boriosi, who was presented with the James Sutherland Award at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Society for Pediatric Research. The Sutherland Award is presented for the outstanding abstract presentation …
Dr. James Conway Discusses Vaccine Rejectionism
Vaccine rejectionism has been around for 200 years, since Edward Jenner used the harmless cow pox virus to immunize people against deadly small pox. Cartoons from the early 1800s showed people sprouting cow heads because …