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Pediatrician Arthur Burns, MD, Retiring at Age 83
Wednesday, January 28, 2004 (1888 reads)

CLEVELAND -- For more than 50 years, pediatrician Arthur Burns, MD treated thousands of patients and four generations of Cleveland families. On Friday, January 30, Dr. Burns will retire from medicine.

At age 83, Dr. Burns is an elder member of the greater Cleveland medical community.
Edgar Jackson, MD, former University Hospitals Chief of Staff, says, "Dr. Burns has been a model of excellence in practice and in academia, and a role model for all physicians - especially minority physicians - including myself."


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2004 Senate Omnibus Appropriations Bill Slates $900,000 for Neonates
Friday, January 23, 2004 (1631 reads)

CLEVELAND -- A federal spending bill signed late yesterday in the U.S. Senate will jump-start renovations in Cleveland's Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The 82-bed unit known throughout the country for having among the highest survival rates for premature infants may soon have a facility that brings together advanced technology, research and operative services in a home-like environment for families.


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Rainbow Researchers Study Diabetes and Impact of Family Habits on Kids' Health
Wednesday, January 21, 2004 (1701 reads)

CLEVELAND -- With type 2 diabetes reaching epidemic proportions among children, researchers at Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital have launched a unique study to understand why it is so difficult for many adolescents to make the lifestyle and nutritional changes required to cope with the disease and maintain good health.


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Alzheimer's Researchers Begin Unique Study of Tangles
Friday, January 16, 2004 (1543 reads)

CLEVELAND -- The University Memory and Aging Center (UMAC) of University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University is one of 30 institutions participating in a $10 million National Institutes of Health study to determine if the medication valproate can reduce the occurrences of problem behaviors and affect the cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease. Valproate has been successfully used for about 40 years to treat epilepsy, migraines and bipolar disorder, and may provide new hope for the more than four million Americans suffering with Alzheimer's disease.

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University Hospitals Launches Testing for Cystic Fibrosis Before Birth
Monday, January 12, 2004 (1735 reads)

CLEVELAND -- The Center for Human Genetics at University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is offering expectant parents and couples who are planning a pregnancy a specific screening test for cystic fibrosis (CF) to determine if they carry a genetic mutation and whether their baby is likely to have this life-threatening condition.   More than a year ago, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) recommended that physicians make CF screening available to couples seeking preconception or prenatal care, but only a fraction of couples eligible for testing are actually having it done.

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Cancer Drug May Help Arthritis Sufferers
Tuesday, January 06, 2004 (1728 reads)

CLEVELAND -- Researchers at University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University are studying a new way to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA), using a cancer-fighting monoclonal antibody that has proven effective against non-Hodgkins lymphoma.  Though chemotherapy agents have been used in the past to treat RA, this is the first attempt to use a drug that targets specific immune cells that play a role in the inflammatory process.

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