Posts Tagged ‘Children’s Hospital Oakland’
Oakland Children’s Hospital provides ongoing care to premature babies
Premature Baby Defies 28 Week Odds
Read MoreA world of hope: Treating international patients with rare diseases at Children’s Hospital Oakland
Meet Nomin Gambat, a 5-year-old girl who traveled all the way from Mongolia to Children’s Hospital Oakland to seek a clinical treatment for a disease so rare it strikes only 1 in a million people. But coming to the United States for medical treatment is difficult, requiring a special visa and proof that there is no cure…
Read MoreHospitals in Oakland prepare for the next earthquake
Hospitals are conducting emergency drills and retrofitting buildings to withstand the next big shake.
Read MoreAfter day of finger-pointing, family of Jahi McMath still searching for transfer facility
A care facility has backed out of a deal to receive brain dead teen as Attorney Chris Dolan accuses Children’s Hospital of getting in the way.
Read MoreFamily of Jahi McMath, Children’s Hospital at odds over transfer of brain-dead teen
The family of Jahi McMath says they have found a Bay Area facility to accept the 13-year-old, but Children’s Hospital says transferring her would violate a recent court order.
Read MoreTaking a shot: An orphan drug trial that drew an international crowd of patients nears its end
When Sarah Morrell was first diagnosed with Morquio syndrome, a rare, incurable disease that crippled her joints and deformed her vertebrae, her family never expected the illness would cause her to travel halfway around the world to have an experimental treatment made from Chinese hamster ovaries injected into her veins.
Read MoreChildren’s Hospital Oakland celebrates 100th birthday at Fairyland
At Children’s Fairyland on Saturday, a three-tiered yellow and pink birthday cake stood towering several feet in height, papered with handwritten messages like, “Thank you for our son,” “Thanks for helping our daughter live a healthy life, ” and “1969 – Thank You. My Heart is Yours 4Ever. Saving My Life.”
Read MoreChildren’s Hospital Oakland cuts the ribbon on new room for seriously ill children
On Wednesday, the palliative care suite at Oakland Children’s Hospital and Research center was re-named “The Edward W. and Yuri H. Chin Reflection Room” in honor of a pledge of $250,000 from the couple. The suite, which was opened last November, is a miniature apartment that consists of a bathroom, living room, bedroom, kitchenette, and den that gives families a private space that feels like a home to enjoy quality time with a child who has a life-limiting illness, particularly children who are dying or have just died.
Read MoreYogathon raises money for Children’s Hospital and African nonprofit
On Saturday, 200 Bay Area residents put on their stretchy yoga pants and unrolled their colourful exercise mats to help Children’s Hospital and Research Center Oakland. For eight hours, barefoot participants moved and stretched their bodies at Richmond’s Craneway Pavilion to inaugurate the first annual Yoga Reaches Out Bay Area Yogathon.
Read MoreAt Children’s Hospital Oakland, a lifelong program helps people with sickle cell anemia
Children’s Hospital Oakland & Research Institute is home to the largest and most comprehensive sickle cell treatment program in the state. The center draws many patients and their families to the area, where they can receive a lifetime of quality care.
Read MoreNotes & Words announces hospital benefit lineup, essay contest
It’s almost springtime in Oakland, and that means Notes & Words is back. The annual event brings authors and musicians together on stage at The Fox Theater to benefit Children’s Hospital Oakland Research.
Read MoreAt Children’s Hospital Oakland, experts work to prevent injury, improve performance in young athletes
Conceived as a preventative branch of the hospital’s already booming Sports Medicine Center for Young Athletes, the athlete development program centers on training kids and teenagers involved in a wide swath of sports. The goal is to not only make them more efficient and improve their performance, but to keep them injury-free.
Read MoreOakland Children’s Hospital launches healthy lunch plan for kids and parents
Oakland’s Children’s Hospital & Research Center is attempting to inspire parents and kids to create nutritious meals together with their recently launched “Mix & Match Brown Bag” healthy lunch plan.
Read MoreA special room, and a hospital program, for profoundly ill kids and their families
A new suite of rooms at Oakland Children’s Hospital is furnished with bright bedspreads, comfortable couches and chairs, kid-sized furniture, and a refrigerator stocked with snacks–all intended to give the families of profoundly ill or dying children an intimate and homelike surroundings within the hospital.
Read MoreOakland Children’s Hospital and La Raza radio station team up to raise funds
Families, physicians and volunteers came out to Children’s Hospital this weekend in support of the third annual Radiotón Para Nuestros Niños, a fundraiser in partnership with Spanish radio station KRZZ 93.3 LA RAZA.
Read MoreOakland nurses march and strike in protest of benefit cuts
An estimated 21,000 healthcare workers joined picket lines, attended rallies or simply stayed home from work in protest of proposed employee benefit cuts at 40 hospitals across California.
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