Press Releases - 2017

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

• 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