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It’s official 🎉 The Accelerating Kids’ Access to Care Act is now law. This legislation helps children across the country access lifesaving specialty care. A huge thank you to Congress — especially Congresswoman Lori Trahan, Rep. Miller-Meeks, Senator Chuck Grassley, Senator Michael Bennet — for championing this bill and helping make kids’ health a national priority.
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Thank you to everyone who joined our #CardiacConversations webinar on Boston Children’s Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery (ERAS Cardiac) Program! 🎥 The full webinar is now available below ⤵️ The Benderson Family Heart Center at Boston Children’s Hospital
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Game faces: ON. 🏈❤️ Our patients and staff at Boston Children’s Hospital are fired up and ready to cheer on the New England Patriots this Sunday. 🙌📣 We couldn’t be prouder of our hometown team. Let’s go, Pats—bring home a win! 🎉🏆
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Kevin has officially entered the chat 👀 and Laura & Luke came in hot with an incredibly generous offer for Seattle Children's nurses 🐶 4 more days until the big game… Go Pats! 🏈💙
Shout out to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Dunkin' Joy In Childhood Foundation 👏
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This year Boston Children’s had 15 entries into the Harvard Brain Science Initiative “Beauty of the Brain” image contest. 🧠 🖼️ Scroll through to see part 2 of the stunning images captured by our researchers this past year.
1. Midbrain Organoid: Cholinergic neurons (blue) and neuronal microtubules (green) in a midbrain organoid.
2. An Apparition of Retinal Ganglion Cells: Mouse retinal ganglion cells (white) and retinal bipolar cells (red).
3. Micro Engines of the Mind: Mitochondria, the cell’s “power plants,” glow inside a rat neuron.
4. Energy Highways Inside a Neuron: Glowing mitochondria dot branches of neurons, highlighting the cell’s internal transport system.
5. Eye of Sauron: A pluripotent stem cell-derived neuroepithelial organoid self-organizes in a columnar-like fashion around a central cavity (lumen).
6. The Helix of Hearing 2: Rows of specialized sensory hair cells on the cochlea of a postnatal mouse.
7. An Axonal Aurora: 3D sensory neuron organoid with cell bodies clustering in the middle and radiating out axonal projections.
8. Human Cortical Neuron Culture: Cortical neurons derived from human-induced pluripotent stem cells (reprogrammed from skin tissue).
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Why we’re getting vaccinated at Boston Children’s
Learn why Boston Children’s employees and patients say they’re choosing to get vaccinated.
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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