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Dr. Jan Brunstrom Named “Outstanding Missourian” by Missouri Lawmakers
ST. LOUIS, April 24, 2007 – The Missouri House of Representatives has named Dr. Jan Brunstrom of St. Louis as an “Outstanding Missourian.” ...
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Children’s Discovery Institute Announces Second Awards
ST. LOUIS – April, 18, 2007 -- The Children’s Discovery Institute (CDI) has announced a second wave of funding for research initiatives aimed at accelerating cures for childhood disease. ...
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Governor Blunt Expands Breakthrough Health Care Program to Sickle Cell Patients
ST. LOUIS, March 12,2007 – At a news conference at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Gov. Matt Blunt discussed his plan to expand a cutting-edge state program to Medicaid patients with sickle cell disease, a painful and debilitating blood disorder that primarily affects African Americans. ...
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Children’s Discovery Institute Grants Announced
ST. LOUIS – February, 20, 2007 --The Children’s Discovery Institute (CDI) has awarded $2 million in research grants to a broad spectrum of investigators across 10 unique departments in Washington University’s School of Arts and Sciences and Medicine. These are the first funding awards since the launch of the Institute in 2006 ...
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The “Ferrill Five” Quintuplets Are All Home
ST. LOUIS, February 20, 2007 – The first set of quintuplets to stay in the St. Louis Children's Hospital Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is on the way back to Danville, Illinois. Irelyn Kadyn Ferrill was the last baby to be released. She went home Monday, February 20. Her three brothers - Landyn Konner, Layne Mykel and Draden Karter – went home Sunday. And Kieran Skye was released last week. ...
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First of the "Ferrill Five" is Released
ST. LOUIS, February 12, 2007 — The first of the Ferrill quintuplets - Kieran Skye - was discharged from St. Louis Children’s Hospital on Monday, February 12. ...
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Newborns with Respiratory Distress Potentially Have Rare Genetic Disease
Feb. 8, 2007 -- Newborns with respiratory distress should be evaluated for primary ciliary dyskinesia, a rare genetic disease that has features similar to cystic fibrosis, says Thomas Ferkol, M.D., from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He reports finding that about 80 percent of patients with primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) have a history of newborn respiratory distress. ...
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St. Louis Children’s Hospital Jumps to #7 on Child’s 10 Best List
ST. LOUIS, January 4, 2007 – Child magazine has named St. Louis Children's Hospital number 7 on its 2007 list of the nation’s ‘10 Best’ pediatric hospitals. St. Louis Children’s is the only hospital in Missouri, Illinois and the surrounding eight-state region to achieve this elite ranking. This marks the third consecutive time the hospital has been ranked in Child’s 10 Best survey. ...
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St. Louis Children's Hospital Celebrates First Set of Quints
They’ve been named the “Ferrill Five.” The hospital’s first quintuplets arrived the afternoon of Thursday, December 21, to the newly expanded Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. ...
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