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Holiday fun starts with safe toys—here are quick tips from our experts when shopping for your little ones. 🪀🧸🧩
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Welcome Teddy, our new facility dog! After 18 months of training by Dogs for Better Lives, Teddy is ready to get to work 🐾 alongside his handler Erin, a certified child life specialist. Together Erin and Teddy will support patients.😌 You might see them helping patients feel calm, teaching about a diagnosis/the hospital, or playing fetch to get moving. If you see Teddy and Erin, please ask to say hi! 👋
A big thank you to Dunkin' and the Dunkin' Joy In Childhood Foundation for making this paw-sible with a Dogs for Joy grant.💙
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We are speechless and inspired. Rob and Karen Hale have made an extraordinary gift to transform the future of children’s mental health. Years from now, when a child finds joy again, when a parent feels hope where there was only fear, when a young person discovers they are not defined by their diagnosis—the Hales’ generosity will be part of that story.
From all of us at Boston Children’s Hospital—and for the millions of children and families this gift will help—thank you, thank you! ms.spr.ly/6188ti3jI
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This holiday season, take the guesswork out of gifting: Donate to Boston Children’s in your friend or family member’s name. Your gift helps the sickest children and their families—here and everywhere—find lifesaving answers. Donate now: ms.spr.ly/6188teFj8
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The history of cystic fibrosis diagnosis
In 1955, Dr. Harry Shwachman, head of Boston Children’s Cystic Fibrosis Clinic, developed the first practical sweat test to diagnose cystic fibrosis (CF). It involved encasing the patient’s body in a plastic bag to collect sweat, then using the pictured device to measure levels of salt in the sample. Cystic fibrosis causes sweat to be 2-5 times saltier than average. The sweat test allowed for much simpler and earlier diagnosis of CF, crucial to effective treatment. A version of it is still the main diagnostic tool used today.
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