Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has performed Georgia’s first-ever procedure to place 3D-printed tracheal splints in a pediatric patient on August 17, 2018. A cross-functional team of Children’s surgeons used three custom-made splints, which biomedical engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology helped create using an innovative and experimental 3D-printing technology, to assist the breathing of a 7-month-old patient battling life-threatening airway obstruction.
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has selected Ron Frieson to become the next President of the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation. Frieson, who currently is serving as the organization’s Chief Public Policy Officer, will succeed Gene Hayes who will retire at the end of 2015.
A new compound has shown promise in preclinical studies as a treatment for acute myeloid leukemia, more than doubling median days of survival even in a drug-resistant form of the disease.
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ATLANTA (August 23, 2019) – Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Peach Bowl, Inc. have kicked off the third annual Peach Bowl Touchdowns for Children’s (T4C) fundraising campaign....
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Blood Blood (bloodjournal.org), the most cited peer-reviewed publication in the field of hematology, is available weekly in print and online. Blood is the official journal of the American Society of...
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ATLANTA (March 27, 2019) – The Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta announced today it will expand its Sickle Cell Disease and...