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4-17-2013	What Is Your Hospital Called? – U.S. News and World Report We recognize that in today's choppy healthcare seas, those who run hospitals are on the hunt for ever-better ways to present and promote themselves. One approach is to change the hospital's name. So each year, through our Best Hospitals and Best Children's Hospitals contractor, U.S. News reaches out to contacts at thousands of hospitals and healthcare systems to ask whether they want us to call their centers something different than the name U.S. News used the year before.
4-16-2013	Further Research, Evidence-Based Interventions Needed to Support Abused, Neglected Children A new systematic review of interventions for maltreated children under age 15 reveals striking limitations in the scientific evidence supporting these approaches, according to a review produced by the RTI-UNC Evidence-based Practice Center.
4-1-2013	Risk Of Stillbirth May Be Increased By Stressful Life Events – Medical News Today Pregnant women who experienced financial, emotional, or other personal stress in the year before their delivery had an increased chance of having a stillbirth, say researchers who conducted a National Institutes of Health network study.
3-28-2013	Best Children's Hospitals: Doctor Survey Ends – U.S. News & World Report The Best Children's Hospitals rankings, like the Best Hospitals rankings of adult centers, factor in specialists' opinions concerning the best sources of care for the sickest patients. The reputational survey that will supply these doctors' recommendations for the 2013-14 pediatric rankings, which are scheduled to appear in mid-June, has now closed.
3-27-2013	Stressful Life Events May Increase Stillbirth Risk, Study Finds – Science Daily Pregnant women who experienced financial, emotional, or other personal stress in the year before their delivery had an increased chance of having a stillbirth, say researchers who conducted a National Institutes of Health network study.
2-13-2013	Evidence Lacking on What Works Best to Help Kids after Trauma – Reuters There's no good evidence on what types of treatment might help ward off anxiety and stress disorders in children and teens exposed to traumatic events, such as mass shootings, according to a U.S. study.
2-13-2013	Treating Trauma in Children: No Long-Term Benefit – WebMD Treating children after they've been exposed to a traumatic event such as a school shooting or natural disaster is challenging, as many treatments don’t seem effective in the long-term, new research suggests.
2-12-2013	How to Help Kids After Trauma? Evidence Thin, Study Finds – NBC Today It's become a standard line in the sad stories about a violent attack in a school, the suicide of a teenager, or a big natural disaster: Counselors are being provided to help the children with their grief. Professionals speak confidently about the need to help children and the many different approaches they have available.
2-12-2013	How Should Doctors Treat Childhood Trauma? – ABC News Radio After tragic events involving children, including the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut and the kidnapping of 5-year-old Ethan by Jimmy Lee Dykes’ in Alabama, researchers are focusing more attention on how to treat children who’ve experienced trauma to avoid post traumatic stress disorder and other psychological repercussions. But they have few answers on what course of treatment is best.
2-12-2013	Counseling Helps Traumatized Kids – Medpage Today Psychotherapy may help children affected by tragedies like the school shootings in Newtown, Conn., a comparative effectiveness meta-analysis suggested
2-12-2013	Experts Unclear How to Help Children who Experience Trauma – CBS News Research suggests that two out of three children will experience one traumatic event by the time they reach 18 years old. What's also troubling is that experts are still searching for the best way to help these young people cope with what they have been through, according to the authors of a new study.
2-11-2013	Review: Few Effective, Evidence-Based Interventions for Children Exposed to Traumatic Events About two out of every three children will experience at least one traumatic event before they turn 18. Despite this high rate of exposure, little is known about the effectiveness of treatments aimed at preventing and relieving traumatic stress symptoms that children may experience after such events, according to researchers at RTI International, the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, the RTI-UNC Evidence-based Practice Center and the Boston Medical Center.
2-11-2013	Few Answers on How to Effectively Help Children Cope with Trauma – Scientific American In the aftermath of traumatic events like the Newtown massacre, Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Katrina, children need to heal, just as adults do. But in turning to research to find out what approaches work best for young people, one finds little guidance, according to a research review published February 11 in Pediatrics.
2-11-2013	What Heals Traumatized kids? Answers are Lacking – Associated Press Shootings and other traumatic events involving children are not rare events, but there's a startling lack of scientific evidence on the best ways to help young survivors and witnesses heal, a government-funded analysis found.
2-11-2013	Little Known on How to Best Help Kids After Trauma – HealthDay When children go through a trauma -- whether it's as rare as a school shooting or as common as a car accident -- they may need therapy to help them deal with it.
2-11-2013	Few Effective, Evidence-Based Interventions for Children Exposed to Traumatic Events – Science Daily About two out of every three children will experience at least one traumatic event before they turn 18.
2-8-2013	Fragile X Syndrome Test Found Reliable – Neurology Today A newborn screening test for the genetic defect that causes fragile X syndrome has been shown to be inexpensive and reliable, but ethical challenges may limit widespread adoption, according to the authors of a paper published in the Dec. 21, 2012, online edition of Genome Medicine.
2-6-2013	Letting Kids Drink Wine – Vitals Blog In my Italian family, wine was always part of the Sunday dinner. For adults. For kids. My grandmother used to sneak it into our soda. We didn’t like it, but she claimed it was good for the blood. Turns out that she was right.
2-5-2013	New Standards Aim to Integrate Healthy Eating, Physical Activity into After-School Care Programs Efforts to combat childhood obesity and chronic diseases have primarily focused on schools and early child care settings, but a new set of standards written for programs that provide out-of-school care can help community-based organizations make an impact as well, according to a paper by researchers from RTI International, Wellesley College and the YMCA of the USA.
1-28-2013	RTI International to Support Ongoing Developmental Disability Research RTI International has been awarded funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to advance research aimed at determining the causes and prevalence of developmental disabilities such as autism, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, and hearing or vision loss.
12-11-2012	Abhik Das Elected to Society for Pediatric Research Abhik Das, Ph.D., a senior research statistician at RTI International, has been elected a member of the Society for Pediatric Research.
12-6-2012	Microarray Testing Helps Identify Genetic Abnormalities after Stillbirth A new genomic technology could contribute to greater understanding of what causes stillbirths by identifying cases of genetic abnormalities, according to results reported by a National Institutes of Health research network established to find the causes of stillbirth as well as ways to prevent or reduce its occurrence.
11-28-2012	Even if You Only Suspect it, Report it – Chicago Tribune Child abuse is an epidemic, but its symptoms aren't always obvious. According to the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 695,000 children were victims of neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse or emotional abuse in 2010. But both the CDC and others who work in child welfare agree that, if anything, child abuse is underreported.
9-26-2012	Why Some Mothers (Wrongly) Let Kids Try Alcohol – U.S. News & World Report Many parents wrongly believe that allowing young children to taste alcohol may discourage them from drinking when they're teens, a new study finds.
9-20-2012	Should Children Be Allowed to Sip Mommy’s Drink? – Time Will allowing your child a sip of wine at an early age prevent him from engaging in dangerous drinking later? Probably not, but plenty of parents think so, finds a recent study.
9-19-2012	Does Offering Kids Sips of Alcohol Turn Them into Boozy Teenagers? – The Week Many parents think that an early taste of wine or beer will make their children less likely to binge as teens. Think again, warn health experts.
9-19-2012	Many Parents Believe That Letting Young Children Taste Alcohol Discourages Later Use – Science Daily One in four mothers believe that letting young children taste alcohol may discourage them from drinking in adolescence and 40 percent believe that not allowing children to taste alcohol will only make it more appealing, according to a new study by RTI International and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
9-19-2012	Many Parents Believe that Letting Young Children Taste Alcohol Discourages Later Use, Study Finds One in four mothers believe that letting young children taste alcohol may discourage them from drinking in adolescence and 40 percent believe that not allowing children to taste alcohol will only make it more appealing, according to a new study by RTI International and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
5-30-2012	RTI International to Study Aftereffects of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita on Children's Health RTI International is beginning the Children's Health after the Storms study to examine how living conditions have impacted the health of children living in areas affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
5-29-2012	RTI International to Study Hurricanes' Effect on Kids – Healthcare Journal of New Orleans A new study recently launched in Louisiana and Mississippi will look at how living conditions – such as storm-damaged housing, FEMA-supplied trailers, and unaffected housing – have impacted the health of children living in areas affected by the storms. Led by RTI International, the Children’s Health after the Storms (or CHATS) study, is funded by the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and will examine and compare the health of Gulf Coast area children who may have come in contact with air pollutants associated with living conditions after the storms.
2-21-2012	Shame on Us: Intolerable Inequality in U.S. Infant Mortality – Huffington Post In Boston, a construction worker, ravaged by burns, successfully underwent a total face transplant. In San Antonio, surgeons have injected a glue-like substance that hardens and prevented the bursting of a woman's brain aneurysm. And in my own institution, researchers have shown that stem cells from a patient's own heart can help regenerate tissue and repair damage caused by a heart attack.
2-16-2012	Behind the Scenes: Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health at the Gates Foundation – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation What if we could predict the life-saving potential—using technology—of newborns and mothers in the developing world? Turns out, we can.
2-13-2012	'This is a public health emergency' – The Charleston Gazette "Every week, I see 12-year-olds who weigh 300 pounds or more," West Virginia University pediatrician Dr. Pamela Murray said.
12-7-2011	Use of Antenatal Corticosteroids for Very Preterm Births Associated With Reduced Risk of Infant Death, Neurodevelopmental Impairment RTI International researchers coauthored a JAMA paper and coordinated the data for a study about the use of antenatal corticosteroid therapy for mothers of infants born at 23 to 25 weeks' gestation.
11-14-2011	New Web Tool Mobilizes Innovations for Maternal, Neonatal Health RTI International has developed a web-based tool called MANDATE to objectively assess the impact of new medical technologies on maternal, fetal and neonatal mortality in the poorest communities around the world.