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Monica Bhatia, MD, director of Columbia’s Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant Program, is participating in a trial evaluating gene editing as a curative treatment for patients with sickle cell disease.
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CNNThe higher rates of MIS-C in Black and Latino children are just the tip of the iceberg in health inequities in the US.
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Over the past two years, the Department of Pediatrics has engaged in efforts to coalesce clinical, research, community, and educational endeavors at Columbia focused on pediatric obesity.
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Members of our pediatric palliative care team work to ease children's pain and facilitate communication and decision-making to ensure that families' values and preferences are heard and respected.
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CUIMC NewsroomMarch 30, 2020Child psychologists at Columbia offer some tips to help parents and other caregivers talk about COVID-19 with children.
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NYP Health MattersMarch 3, 2020After Cynthia Vander Molen’s son underwent open heart surgery, she wrote a book to help him and other children see how their scars make them stronger.
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New York TimesMarch 3, 2020“You don’t have to label to treat,” said Dr. Sharon Oberfield, a professor of pediatrics at Columbia University who co-authored a recent update on the diagnosis and treatment of PCOS in adolescents.
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- February 27, 2020
Columbia’s pediatric hematology/oncology/stem cell transplantation team is launching a groundbreaking program in pediatric neuro-oncology, the Brain Tumor Technology Research (BTTR) initiative.
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- February 20, 2020
High school junior Kelli MacTaggart's life changed suddenly when she went into cardiac arrest in the hallway of her high school.
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- February 11, 2020
Columbia researchers are exploring ways to repurpose drugs approved by the FDA for other conditions and existing experimental therapies in difficult-to-treat pediatric cancers.
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- February 4, 2020
Columbia's Dr. Prakash Satwani is researching ways to reduce immediate and late-stage complications in bone marrow transplantation for children with leukemia/lymphoma.
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- December 10, 2019
Dr. Sharon Oberfield will begin her year-long term as president-elect at the society’s annual meeting in April 2020.
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CUIMC NewsroomDecember 4, 2019Here are 6 things Melissa Stockwell, MD, MPH tells families and other physicians to encourage more families to get their children vaccinated against the flu.
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CUIMC NewsroomNovember 18, 2019Anna Penn, MD, PhD, a leading clinical neonatologist and developmental neuroscientist, has been named chief of the Division of Neonatology in the Department of Pediatrics at Columbia.
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