Press Releases - 2017

December 14 Higher blood sugar in early pregnancy raises baby’s heart-defect risk

December 11 The new Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford now open

December 11 Drug increases speed, safety of treatment for multiple food allergies

November 6 Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford appoints two new members to its Board of Directors

November 1 5 Questions: Margo Thienemann on an alarming children’s psychiatric disease

October 24 Art and nature are part of a holistic approach to healing at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford

October 17 Newborns with trisomy 13 or 18 benefit from heart surgery

October 5 Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford Earns Accreditation from the Adult Congenital Heart Association

September 21 Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Stanford Medicine Children’s Health receive global accolades for use of health information technology

August 24 Hospital-wide access to virtual reality alleviates pain and anxiety for pediatric patients

August 1 Elective freezing of IVF embryos linked to higher pregnancy rates in some cases

July 24 Stanford announces new Center for Definitive and Curative Medicine

July 13 Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford and Stanford Children’s Health named one of 2017’s Most Wired

July 11 Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford re-verified as a Level 1 trauma center

June 28 J. Taylor Crandall joins Board of Directors at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford

June 27 Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford ranks among the nation’s best in pediatric specialty care — U.S. News & World Report’s 2017–2018 Best Children’s Hospitals

May 9 The countdown is on for the 2017 opening of the new Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford

May 8 Stanford scientists crowdsource autism data to learn where resource gaps exist

April 27 Threat to Medicaid puts children’s health care on the line

April 5 Hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery systems for Type 1 diabetes come of age

March 28 Gordon and Betty Moore Make $50 Million Gift to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford to Advance Care and Research for Pediatric Heart Disease

March 22 Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford pioneers use of VR for patient care, education and experience

February 23 Mother saves her 16-year-old son after he collapses on the soccer field

February 23 Adolescent Bariatric Surgery Program at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford Receives Landmark Accreditation

February 15 Julia and David Koch make visionary $10 million gift to establish new clinical research unit for allergy and asthma

February 13 Virtual Reality imaging technology gives surgeons a better view into patient anatomy

January 18 Jeff Chambers appointed chair of the Board of Directors at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford

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