I-Team: Generic Drug Legal Loophole Puts Patients At Risk
BOSTON (CBS) – Most insurance companies require us to take cheaper, generic drugs when they are available, but the I-Team discovered a major drawback to these medicines that doctors and pharmacists don’t warn their patients about. If patients are harmed by the drugs, they have little or no recourse in a court of law. The Steele family of Foxboro is hoping their story will help make a meaningful change for thousands of Massachusetts residents who take generic drugs.
Rowan Steele was born last November, two-and-a-half months early. But that wasn’t the biggest hurdle she would face. She had a congenital heart d...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - October 31, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: deanreddington Tags: Health i-Team Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Generic Drugs Lauren Leamanczyk Source Type: news
How rapid prototyping is changing medical tech
Some people bring data and completed designs. Others just bring simple sketches. “We have this idea for this device,” they begin. “It may only help 15 kids a year, but it could really improve their quality of life.”
Other people bring only a clinical need: “We need something to keep babies lying still after their procedure, without having to medicate them.”
To make these ideas more tangible and help launch them down a formal development path, the Boston Children’s Hospital Simulator Program, SIMPeds, has begun making its 3D printing and engineering service available to help hospital staff rapidly prototype...
Source: Mass Device - October 20, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Tags: Blog Vector Blog Source Type: news
Boston Children's Hospital implements QuestLink to administer ICHOM standard sets
Boston Children's Hospital has selected VitalHealth Software's QuestLink for the implementation of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) standard set for cleft lip and palate. (Source: Hospital Management)
Source: Hospital Management - September 28, 2015 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Three Important Life Lessons For Physicians From Patients Around The Globe
In the arms of every parent who waited on the long line outside the clinic in Mexico was a child born with a facial deformity, usually a cleft lip or palate. Many of these mothers and fathers had walked long distances, carrying their child. Some families included grandparents, aunts and uncles, and others, just a mother and her baby. Most of these families had arrived the day before. All hoped their child would be scheduled for surgery and restored to a normal appearance. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - September 17, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Robert Pearl, M.D. Source Type: news
Disruptions of splicing proteins cause facial, skin, organ defects in young mice
Knocking out one or both crucial regulatory genes caused cleft lip, skin barrier defects, and a host of other developmental problems in mice, hinting that abnormalities in these molecular pathways could underlie many birth defects that are presently not well understood. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - September 15, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Penn study demonstrates genes' major role in skin and organ development
(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Knocking out one or both crucial regulatory genes caused cleft lip, skin barrier defects, and a host of other developmental problems in mice, hinting that abnormalities in these molecular pathways could underlie many birth defects that are presently not well understood. The two closely related regulatory genes are active in the normal development of mammals and govern how RNAs produced from the genes are joined to make final versions of the encoded protein. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 15, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Boy with severe cleft lip has just one response to strangers who stare
Zak Coates, nine, from Cyprus, was born with a severe cleft lip and no right eye lid, which caused him to go blind. He has since undergone nine different operations to rebuild his face. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Caries Risk in Children With Cleft Lip and/or PalateCaries Risk in Children With Cleft Lip and/or Palate
What factors might contribute to a higher risk of dental caries in children with cleft lip and/or palate? BMC Oral Health (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - September 4, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Dental & Oral Health Journal Article Source Type: news
Dog with cleft palate gets help from human surgery
Doctors say doing the procedure on the puppy has implications for children and canines alike (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - August 29, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
One-Flap Palatoplasty for Unilateral Cleft Palate RepairOne-Flap Palatoplasty for Unilateral Cleft Palate Repair
This technique may be a viable alternative to the conventional 2-flap approach for unilateral cleft palate repair. Plastic Reconstructive Surgery-Global Open (PRS Global Open) (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - August 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Plastic Surgery & Aesthetic Medicine Journal Article Source Type: news
Study may show a way to predict whether children with a genetic disorder will develop autism or psychosis
Doctors and researchers have long known that children who are missing about 60 genes on a certain chromosome are at a significantly elevated risk for developing either a disorder on the autism spectrum or psychosis — that is, any mental disorder characterized by delusions and hallucinations, including schizophrenia. But there has been no way to predict which child with the abnormality might be at risk for which disorder.
New findings by researchers at UCLA and the University of Pittsburgh are the first to suggest a potential way to make that determination. In a study published in PLOS One, the researchers report having i...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - July 24, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Study finds variation in rates of secondary cleft lip, palate surgery
For children with cleft lip and palate, the chances of undergoing secondary surgery vary depending on the center where they're treated, reports a new study. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - July 10, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Study shows variation in rates of secondary cleft lip and palate surgery
(Wolters Kluwer Health) For children with cleft lip and palate, the chances of undergoing secondary surgery vary depending on the center where they're treated, reports a study in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery -- Global Open®, the official open-access medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 10, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Vivian’s story: From baby with a cleft lip to confident adult
Dennis, Sylvia and Vivian Pereira with Dr. John Mulliken
Silvia Pereira was pregnant for the first time in 1986 when a routine ultrasound revealed that she was carrying a baby girl with a cleft lip. In her early twenties and newly emigrated from Honduras, Silvia decided to keep the condition a secret because she was unsure of how her family would react. “I didn’t even know what a cleft lip was; I didn’t care how she came out; I just wanted my baby.”
When baby Vivian arrived, her husband Dennis was in disbelief: “If you’ve never seen a cleft lip, it’s pretty shocking. I asked myself, what’s going on? Is this...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - July 7, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Jenny Fernandez Tags: All posts Our patients’ stories Bonnie Padwa Cleft lip and Palate Program John Mulliken Stephen Shusterman Source Type: news
Nature Or Nurture? The Long-Running Debate May Finally Be Settled
It's an age-old debate: do our genes make us who we are, or is it the environment in which we were raised?
There's long been agreement that both "nature" and "nurture" play some role in determining many aspects of our physical and mental selves, from our height and weight to our intelligence and disposition. But as to which plays the bigger role in shaping us, scientists have never seemed to agree.
That debate may now be over, thanks to a sweeping analysis of studies conducted around the world for more than five decades. The analysis -- involving more than 14.5 million twin pairs from 39 countries -- indicates that nat...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 20, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
