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What a special afternoon with Noah Cyrus and her instrumentalist Liam Kevan! Between bedside visits and a music and Q&A session in #SeacrestStudios, the pair brought unforgettable moments for our patients last week. Thank you for sharing your wonderful talent with us while you were in Boston! 💙🎶
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Wyatt and his twin brother, Gavin, were born at 22 weeks. At just over 1 pound, Wyatt became the smallest baby to undergo transcatheter PDA closure through our Premature PDA Closure Program. The procedure closed a blood vessel in his heart that had remained open after birth. Read about the boys: ms.spr.ly/6186vAKP0
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Boston Children’s is proud to join the Broad Institute and The Jackson Laboratory to launch the Center for Therapeutic Genetics (CTG) — a new collaboration advancing genetic medicines for rare diseases.
Fewer than 1 in 20 rare diseases currently has an approved treatment. CTG is working to change that by building scalable approaches to develop personalized therapies faster and expand access for more patients and families.
Led by Boston Children’s Drs. Wendy Chung and Timothy Yu, alongside collaborators Dr. David Liu, Dr. Cat Lutz, and Dr. Winston Yan, this effort brings together leaders in genetics to make individualized medicine more efficient, accessible, and repeatable.
This is what the future of rare disease care can look like.
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It was a glorious day of games and giving for the kids at Boston Children’s Hospital! On July 9th, 65 teams from the best businesses in New England squared off at Corporate Cup. 💙 Field day fun was had by all and Team HarbourVest Partners won the Kids’ Cup! 🏆 Together, we raised over $1.04 million to fuel lifesaving care and build healthy futures for all. 🌈
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Fresh from the farm to your family’s table! 🥕
On Monday July 20 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., join Boston Children’s Teaching Kitchen and Needham Community Farm for a FREE hands-on cooking class featuring seasonal produce, family-friendly recipes, and practical kitchen skills. Children ages 8–16 are welcome with a guardian.
📆 RSVP using the link so you can discover new flavors, learn cooking techniques, and more:
The Teaching Kitchen | Boston Children's Hospital
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The Boston Children's Teaching Kitchen offers medical nutrition education to help manage chronic conditions and food sensitivities. Learn more.1 CommentsComment on Facebook
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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