Welcome to Research Horizons
Explore highlights of the exciting research happening at Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation with Research Horizons. Each issue features recent studies published by Cincinnati Children's investigators. By combining cutting-edge research and education with the best in pediatric care, we are striving to improve the lives of children and families everywhere.
This issue features the following news briefs:
In addition, you will find the following feature stories that highlight some of our many world-class researchers:
Thomas F. Boat,MD, has seen gradual improvements to the health care system since first arriving at Cincinnati Children's, but it took a personal experience for him to realize that these improvements need to happen much more quickly... [more]
With the incidence of asthma continuing to rise among children in the inner city, research underway at the Cincinnati Children's Division of Critical Care Medicine may help to explain why, and eventually, offer alternative therapeutic options... [more]
A study in the December 2003 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine describes a boy who was perfectly healthy at birth, but weighed only four pounds and was 15.8 inches long, as compared to the average newborn who weighs about six pounds and is 20 inches long. Steven Chernausek, MD, M. Jennifer Abuzzahab, MD, and colleagues traced the root of the boy's small size before and after birth to mutations in the gene for the insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) receptor... [more]
For years parents have been instructed to keep a bottle in the home for use in childhood poisonings. But in November of last year, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) changed its policy and now advises against home use. Findings from a recent study by G. Randall Bond,MD, support the AAP's policy change... [more]
How can physicians ensure that the medications they prescribe are the most effective choice for the children they treat? For pediatric neurologist Tracy Glauser, MD, of the Cincinnati Children's Division of Neurology, that's the fundamental issue that drives both his research and patient care activities... [more]
Cincinnati Children's recently began construction on a new, 11-story research facility on its main campus. The new building will have 363,000 total square feet and will increase total research space at Cincinnati Children's by about 70 percent... [more]
