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Sherri Bishop Named to Head Development at UHHS
Wednesday, August 18, 2004 (2660 reads)

CLEVELAND -- Tom Zenty, president and chief executive officer of University Hospitals Health System, today announced the appointment of Sherri Bishop to the position of senior vice president for Institutional Relations and Development.  Bishop comes to UHHS after 13 years at the Cleveland Clinic, where she most recently was vice chairman of the division of Institutional Relations and Development.


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Depressed Teens Helped with Combination Drug and Talk Therapy
Tuesday, August 17, 2004 (1484 reads)

CLEVELAND -- A short-term approach, involving both medication and specific cognitive behavioral 'talk' therapy, is highly effective in the treatment of teenage depression.  In a national study involving more than 400 adolescents (including 33 from the Cleveland area), researchers concluded that a combination of Prozac and focused psychotherapy, known as CBT, appears to be the best approach to both alleviating depression and reducing the level of suicidal thinking in adolescents.


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Parents Prefer Doctor's Phone Call -- and the Bill
Thursday, August 12, 2004 (1354 reads)

CLEVELAND -- Doctors estimate that 30 percent of their medical care for children is handled via telephone calls, prompting researchers at University Hospitals' Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital to examine this practice and conclude that parents overwhelmingly prefer to have their children's simple illnesses managed by phone.


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