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Friday | KHOU-TV Houston

Judge allows girl with brain cancer to return to family's home

Child Protective Services had taken custody of Aerial Brown after her parents clashed with doctors at Texas Children's Hospital and M.D. Anderson over her treatment.

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Related Topix: Health, Brain Cancer, Hospital Administration, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Friday May 25 | Sys-Con Media

AMA Houston's Crystal Awards Recognizes Houston's Best Marketing Work

The Crystal Awards, AMA Houston's premier event, honored the vision and strategic direction of the city's best marketing work.

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Related Topix: Marketing, University of Houston, Energy, Oil & Gas, Weatherford International, Medicine, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry

Thu May 17, 2012

Houston Chronicle

Some Pearland sextuplets improving

New parents David and Lauren Perkins hold daughter Caroline, one of the sextuplets born April 23 in Houston.

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Related Topix: Houston, TX, Medicine, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Nursing, Pearland, TX

The Beaumont Enterprise

Texas sextuplets improving, 3 breathing on own

This May 13, 2012, photo provided by Texas Children's Hospital shows Lauren and David Perkins of Pearland, Texas, with three of their children, from left: Benjamin, Caroline and Andrew, at the hospital in Houston.

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Related Topix: Hospital Administration, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Pearland, TX

Market Wire

Neuren Holds Pre-IND Meeting on Proposed Rett Syndrome Clinical Trials With FDA

NEU ) announced today that it held a pre-IND meeting with the FDA Division of Neurology Products to discuss clinical development plans for the study of its lead drug NNZ-2566 in the treatment of Rett Syndrome.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Food and Drug Administration, Medicine, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Baylor College of Medicine

Wed May 16, 2012

Daily Mail

Renewed hope for children with 'giggling seizures' as doctors see...

A new surgery is offering hope to children suffering from a rare form of epilepsy that causes uncontrollable and potentially fatal fits of laughter.

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Related Topix: Epilepsy, Health, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry

WTMA-AM North Charleston

New Surgery Offers Hope to Kids With Dangerous Giggling Seizures

For the first time, in an experimental pilot program at Texas Children's Hospital, doctors are using real time MRI-guided lasers to destroy lesions that cause laughing seizures in epilepsy patients.

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Related Topix: Hospital Administration, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Thu May 10, 2012

Daily Mail

Doctors CAN perform life-saving surgery on baby that Jehovah s...

A baby will have a life-saving heart surgery despite his parents refusing because they are Jehovah's Witnesses, a judge ruled yesterday.

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Related Topix: Classical, Religion, Jehovah's Witness, Jehovah's Witnesses, Medicine, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry

Houston Home-Journal

Young girl struck by car near elementary school

Got a story idea? Let us know! The accident happened at about 7:30am on Concourse at Lawndale in southwest Houston.

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Related Topix: Hospital Administration, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Wed May 09, 2012

Abc13.com

Young girl struck by car in SW Houston

The driver was traveling northbound on Concourse Drive when police say two little girls ran into the middle of the street.

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Related Topix: Hospital Administration, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

MyFoxHouston

Kids Get Life Lesson from Classmate

Some elementary school kids got a lesson in life. The students at Wheeler Avenue Christian Academy went on an unconventional outing.

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Related Topix: Hospital Administration, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Rehab Management

Dr. Jordan Orange to lead newly merged program in pediatric...

An internationally recognized leader in studying and treating primary immunodeficiency disorders in children, Orange serves as chief of Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology and director of a new Center for Human Immunobiology at Texas Children's and as professor and section head for Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology in the Department of ... (more)

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Related Topix: Immunology, Biology, Science, Medicine, Rheumatology, Infectious Diseases, Genetics, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry

MyFoxHouston

7-Year-Old Girl Struck by Vehicle

A 7-year-old girl was struck by a vehicle during an early-morning accident on a southwest Houston road.

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Related Topix: Hospital Administration, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

Tue May 08, 2012

WTVF Nashville

Laser Zaps Epilepsy

Peeling back the scalp, cutting the skull and removing a chunk of the brain. It's the traditional way to cure certain kinds of epilepsy, but the complications can be worse than the seizures.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Surgery, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry

Mon May 07, 2012

EurekAlert!

Defective carnitine metabolism may play role in autism

The deletion of part of a gene that plays a role in the synthesis of carnitine - an amino acid derivative that helps the body use fat for energy - may play a role in milder forms of autism, said a group of researchers led by those at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital .

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Related Topix: Baylor College of Medicine, Medicine, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Genetics, Biology, Science, Life, Food, Vegetarian

Sun May 06, 2012

Houston Chronicle

Girl, 5, nearly drowns at NW Houston apartments

A 5-year-old girl was rushed to Texas Children's Hospital about 4 p.m. Sunday after nearly drowning at a northwest Houston apartment complex, KTRK-TV reports on its website.

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Related Topix: Hospital Administration, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Houston, TX

Sat May 05, 2012

The Papillion Times

Sextuplets the answers to prayers

Kids Yoga is a fun, the kids will learn many simple yoga postures breathing & relaxation techniques, concentration exercises, meditation, healthy food styles.

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Related Topix: Family, Kids, Fitness, Yoga, Medicine, Nursing, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Texas

Fri May 04, 2012

Cath Lab Digest

Texas Children's Fetal Center Launches Fetal Interventional Program to treat HLHS In-Utero

The team at Texas Children's Fetal Center, a national leader for treating fetal anomalies, has successfully completed two in-utero fetal cardiac interventions to treat hypoplastic left heart syndrome , a congenital heart defect that is one of the most complex heart defects to treat.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Baylor College of Medicine, Cardiology

Thu May 03, 2012

The Beaumont Enterprise

Meet the Houston sextuplets

The Perkins sextuplets. Top row, from left, Allison, Andrew and Benjamin. Bottom row, from left, Caroline, Leah and Levi.

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Related Topix: Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry

Wed May 02, 2012

WHBF-TV Rock Island

Texas sextuplets' parents: 1 sick baby a 'fighter'

Dr. Michael Belfort congratulates David and Lauren Perkis, parents of sextuplets, after a news conference held at Texas Children's Hospital Pavilion for Women on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, in Houston.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, US Politics, US News, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney

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