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February 14, 2019
Team led by SickKids scientists finds new insight into gene mutations associated with autism
New research from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), the University of Toronto and McMaster University suggests increased activity in neurons that are deficient in the CNTN5 or EHMT2 gene could cause autism-related characteristics in humans.
February 8, 2019
Three takes on Canada’s new food guide
Dr. Lennox Huang, Chief Medical Officer and Vice President, Medical and Academic Affairs, Daina Kalnins, Director of Clinical Dietetics, and Mary McAllister, Associate Chief of Nursing, sat down to give their unique perspectives on the new food guide released January 2019.
February 4, 2019
A team led by Dr. Jayne Danska, Senior Scientist and Associate Chief, Faculty Development at SickKids investigated patterns of antibody responses detected in the blood from children with recent onset T1D or pre-diabetic children with genetic risk factors for the disease.
February 1, 2019
Today marks the second anniversary of the launch of SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health (SickKids CCMH).
February 1, 2019
Common Infrastructure for National Cohorts in Europe, Canada, and Africa (CINECA) is an unprecedented multi-continental project that will build the infrastructure -- data standards, technical protocols, and software -- to allow queries and analyses over distributed data sets that are contributed and controlled by each partner.
February 1, 2019
World-first paediatric procedure eliminates pain, treats rare condition for SickKids patient
On June 4, 2018, Linda became the first paediatric patient in the world to successfully undergo an innovative procedure by a team of surgeons at SickKids to treat her rare medical problem known as nutcracker syndrome.
January 30, 2019
Study finds that healthy children across four continents reach similar neurodevelopmental milestones
INTERGROWTH-21st researchers have found that attainment in early childhood of neurodevelopmental milestones is, like physical growth, very similar among children across diverse geographical and cultural settings.
January 24, 2019
Study provides data on outcomes after feeding tube placement in children with neurologic impairment
A team led by researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and ICES analyzed survival rates after feeding tube placement in children between 13 months and 17 years of age.
January 17, 2019
In some types of cancers, tumour markers will decrease with treatment and are helpful in predicting outcomes, which is why researchers at SickKids set out to discover if tumour markers could adequately detect cancer relapse independently of imaging tests.
January 17, 2019
Connections in the brain may be key to working memory performance in children
A SickKids research team set out to investigate which brain regions connect with each other to hold information in memory for children. Their results could potentially lead to more specific therapies for those with cognitive difficulties.
January 15, 2019
SickKids researchers conduct the first systematic study of malicious poisonings
Malicious poisoning (MP), where an individual is the victim of another person’s intent to harm them through poisoning, is uncommon in the overall population of poisoned patients, however data suggests that children are more at risk of death compared to adults when maliciously poisoned.
January 7, 2019
The association between obesity and iron deficiency has been studied before; however, there are few studies that looked at patients less than five years of age.