Gordon is also a scientist on staff at Boston Children's Hospital where the trial was conducted.
First Lady Michelle Obama also visited patients at Boston Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
The current study was supported by Boston Children's Hospital and a Milton Grant through Harvard University.
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She was taken to Boston Children's Hospital where she was treated for bleeding to her brain and eyes.
The 31-year-old mother of two is a nurse, the coordinator of intestinal transplants in the Pediatric Transplant Center at Boston Children's Hospital.
At Boston Children's Hospital, the disaster-control team secured the building's perimeter, according to Patricia Branowicki, vice president for medicine and patient services.
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The first lady met with patients, families and hospital staff at Boston Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, the White House said.
Researchers from Boston Children's Hospital in Massachusetts found a doubling in the odds of obesity by the time the child was three years old.
Dr. Mark Kieran, director of pediatric medical neuro-oncology at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Insititute, is the principal investigator of the study.
The investigators are now conducting a randomized, controlled clinical trial of RAGE Control in the outpatient clinic at Boston Children's that adds a cooperative component.
ENGADGET: Researchers create video game that monitors heart rate to keep children's anger in check
For a particularly powerful illustration of these possibilities, watch this video of Hubert Jones, who founded the Boston Children's Chorus after finishing his midlife career.
"The connections between the brain's executive control centers and emotional centers are weak in people with severe anger problems, " explains Gonzalez-Heydrich, chief of Psychopharmacology at Boston Children's and senior investigator on the study.
ENGADGET: Researchers create video game that monitors heart rate to keep children's anger in check
Mr. Gibson, a software executive, knew about LifeImage's services through his work, and he reached a contact there who helped him send the MRI within minutes to Boston Children's Hospital, a LifeImage customer.
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Pediatrician Michael Rich, director of Boston Children's Hospital's Center on Media and Child Health, says the answer boils down to the deeper purpose of a task, which can be overlooked when everything is a click away.
The study, led by first author Peter Ducharme, MSW, a clinical social worker at Boston Children's, compared two groups of 9- to 17-year-old children admitted to the hospital's Psychiatry Inpatient Service who had high levels of anger.
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One driving factor is that children born in the past with complex heart defects "didn't survive at nearly the rate that they do now, " said Jared O'Leary, a researcher at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital.
Dr. Kieran said another trial, involving a cocktail of lonafarnib and two additional drugs, is under way at Boston Children's Hospital to try to achieve even greater benefits and that a fourth drug is being tested in mice and may be tried in the children in another trial.
After the 1990s was devoted to discovering the genes that play a role in muscular dystrophy and the 2000s to researching possible new therapies, this is the decade when the resulting new drugs will be introduced, says Louis Kunkel, a muscular-dystrophy researcher at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Noticing that children with anger control problems are often uninterested in psychotherapy, but very eager to play video games, Jason Kahn, PhD, and Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich, MD, at Boston Children's Hospital developed "RAGE Control" to motivate children to practice emotional control skills that they can later use in challenging life situations.
ENGADGET: Researchers create video game that monitors heart rate to keep children's anger in check
And I hope that one day, in the streets of Boston, children will look up at a statue built not only to Bill Russell the player, but Bill Russell the man.
In 2005, she bought a modest two-family home for herself and her three children in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood.
She's mentored public-school children in Boston who are interested in stringed instruments.
Dr. James Perrin, the director of the division of general pediatrics at the Mass General Hospital for Children in Boston, says it takes more than one doctor's visit to get an ADHD diagnosis right. (Perrin helped write guidelines for diagnosing ADHD in general practice or family practice settings, which were published in 2000, but did not participate in Garland's study).
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Tsarnaeva was in Dagestan as the manhunt for her children unfolded in Boston.
"It is a big achievement, " says Judah Folkman of Harvard's Children's Hospital Boston.
Last November, Pfizer and Children's Hospital Boston signed a one-year research agreement to collaborate on fish screening in muscular dystrophy.
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"Children who are adopted at age 5 are in a different risk category from newborns, " says Dr. Lisa Albers, director of the Adoption Program at Children's Hospital Boston.
On their arrival, the Clintons were greeted at the airport by several old friends, including Jordan and his wife, TV stars Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen and her children and their host Boston developer Richard Friedman and his fiance.
While cloning stem cells is a technical breakthrough, there's already a method of deriving embryonic-like stem cells that doesn't require the use of embryos at all: induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cells, said Dr. George Daley, who is director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Children's Hospital Boston and an international expert in stem cells.
The idea famously has its roots in the work of Judah Folkman, a researcher at Children's Hospital in Boston.
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