Cincinnati Children's News Releases
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The International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners® (IBLCE®) and International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA) have recognized Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center for excellence in lactation care.
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center announces the formation of the Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth and the arrival of Louis Muglia, MD, PhD, as its director. Dr. Muglia officially started in his role as director of the new center, co-director of the Perinatal Institute at Cincinnati Children’s and professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine on January 1st
Despite receiving supplemental food benefits, some families cannot afford enough infant formula and resort to the dangerous practice of formula “stretching” – watering down formula – to feed their babies, according to a Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center study conducted at urban pediatric clinics.
Three-fourths of preschool-age children in the United States attend child care, and many are not getting enough outdoor physical activity, which may be due in part to parental and societal values about injury prevention and kindergarten readiness.
Srikant Iyer, MD, an emergency medicine physician at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, has been selected to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Innovation Advisors Program. The initiative, launched by the CMS Innovation Center in October 2011, will help health professionals deepen skills that will drive improvements to patient care and reduce costs.