Press Releases - 2010

News and announcements on our leading research and innovative, world-class care for children and expectant mothers.

  • December 20 One organ donor saves three lives at Packard Children’s
  • December 16 Packard Children’s Plastic Surgeon Reconstructs Patient’s Jaw In Unusual Surgery
  • December 9 Packard Children’s MD Portal Honored at 2010 eHealthcare Leadership Awards
  • December 8 Hospitals and CRONA have reached tentative agreement
  • December 7 Stanford/Packard Doctor Leads Development Of First Standard-Of-Care Guidelines For Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
  • November 24 Stanford/Packard Researcher Says Study Of 10 Other Hospitals Found No Reduction In Adverse Medical Events Over Six Years
  • October 28 Anti-Obesity Program For Low-Income Kids Shows Promise, Stanford/Packard Study Finds
  • October 26 Trick-or-“Tweet” Trail Friday at Packard Children’s
  • October 25 Packard/Stanford Gastroenterologist Inducted into American Clinical and Climatological Association
  • October 21 Kids Needed For Stanford/Packard Study On Development Of Sense Of Humor
  • October 11 Central Payment Announces Corporate Donation to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
  • October 12 Twin Research Registry at SRI International Seeks Bay Area Twin Pairs for Seasonal Flu Vaccine Study at Stanford University
  • October 8 Physicians Missing Self-Injury Behavior In Youths With Eating Disorders, Stanford/Packard Study Finds
  • October 6 Stanford/Packard To Test New Diagnostic Guidelines For Pediatric And Young Adult Mental Disorders
  • October 4 Family Therapy For Anorexia Twice As Effective As Individual Therapy, Stanford/Packard Researchers Find
  • September 23 Stanford/Packard Researchers Find Faster, Less-Intrusive Way To Identify Transplant Recipients’ Organ Rejection
  • September 16 Supporting Packard Children’s Hospital Has a New Sense of Style
  • September 16 Packard Children’s Hospital and California Highway Patrol Team Up for Child Safety
  • September 15 $12.7 Million Grant For Stanford/Packard Study Of Childhood Obesity Treatment
  • September 9 Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Appeals CDPH Fine
  • September 8 Stanford/Packard Researchers Design More Accurate Method Of Determining Premature Infants’ Risk Of Illness
  • August 19 Autism Spectrum Disorder: September Educational Series for Parents
  • July 22 SRI International and Stanford University School of Medicine’s MISTRAL Collaborative and the Institute for Pediatric Innovation Awarded FDA Grant to Accelerate Commercialization of Pediatric Medical Devices
  • July 21 South African Nurses to Visit Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital as Part of a Quality Improvement Project to Reduce ICU Infections
  • July 9 IUDs an effective but underused birth-control option for teens, Stanford/Packard researchers say
  • July 9 Pioneer of modern-day neonatology celebrates over 50 years of preemie care
  • June 29 SRI International and Stanford University School of Medicine Launch the MISTRAL Collaborative to Innovate Medical Device Development
  • June 17 First Large-Scale Analysis Of Pro-Eating Disorder Websites Conducted By Hopkins/Stanford Researchers
  • June 15 Packard Children’s Names New Chief Medical Information Officer
  • June 15 Stanford/Packard Study Of Autism Behavioral Therapy Seeks Participants
  • June 9 New Autism Genes Discovered
  • June 3 2010 “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals” survey by U.S.News again ranks Packard Children’s as one of nation’s best
  • June 2 Stanford/Packard Study Finds Surprising Disparity In Where Chronically Ill Kids Hospitalized
  • May 26 Children’s HeartLink to Collaborate with Packard Children’s on Medical Mission and Parent Education Effort in India
  • May 24 Packard Children’s Doctor Launches Online Resource For Volunteering Abroad In Pediatric Surgery
  • May 20 New Associations Between Diabetes, Environmental Factors Found By Novel Stanford Analytic Technique
  • May 12 Hospital School Prom Provides Adventures In Wonderland
  • May 12 Pioneering treatment cures infant of often-fatal metabolic disorder at Packard Children’s Hospital
  • May 11 Pediatric radiologists at Packard/Stanford bring home major awards
  • May 4 Packard/Stanford scientists honored by the Society for Pediatric Research
  • May 2 Stanford/Packard Study Shows For First Time Decrease In Mortality Associated With Physician Order Entry System
  • April 29 New Center for Fetal Health Opens at Packard Children’s Hospital
  • April 28 Stanford/Packard team seeks infants with hemangiomas for trial of new drug treatment
  • April 21 Third Annual Autism Update: Stanford Autism Center at Packard Children’s Hospital Reaches Out to Parents
  • April 10 Eating Disorder Cutoffs Miss Some Of Sickest Patients, Stanford/Packard Study Finds
  • March 31 Hospitals Present “Last, Best, and Final” Offer to Nurses Union
  • March 19 Gov. Schwarzenegger Announces Legislation to Increase Organ Donation Opportunities
  • March 13 Child Health Leaders to Hold Summit on Health Care Reform
  • March 8 In U.S. Imaging First, Prenatal MRI Detects Rare Genetic Disease in Newborn
  • February 22 Bay Area Eating Disorders Symposium Upcoming at Packard Children’s Hospital
  • February 8 Adolescents With Fragile X Syndrome Sought For Stanford/Packard Drug Trial
  • January 25 Stanford/Packard Autism Researchers Seek Twins For Brain-Imaging Study
  • January 19 Packard Children’s Special Care Nursery at Sequoia Hospital celebrates 10 years
  • January 5 Packard/Stanford physician to lead American Society of Clinical Oncology