Thomas Stuenzi is a research coordinator in the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, but his passion for helping others led him to be involved in a much bigger way. Tomorrow he will be the 500th person to shave his head in the history of the Trinity Hall St. Baldrick’s Foundation event – just one [...]
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Beyond ABC Report Released Today
The demographic surge in five counties north of Dallas includes a growing number of children who lack health insurance, according to the 2012 edition of the Children’s annual Beyond ABC report. The report will be released today at a community symposium moderated by Texas state Sen. Florence Shapiro. The report provides reliable data about the health [...]
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Cancer and Blood Disorders, Patient Features, Research
Raven’s living life pain free
Raven Bates, 13, is having fun being a kid these days. She plays soccer, does handstands and back bends with friends and really anything else she can think of outdoors. And the best part is she’s pain-free, thanks to a drug her doctors at the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Children’s switched her [...]
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Cancer and Blood Disorders, Experts, Research
Landmark study to find cures for sarcomas
Doctors and researchers at Children’s Medical Center and UT Southwestern Medical Center are off and running on a one-of-a-kind cancer research study. The study has the potential to discover the unknown drivers of soft tissue sarcoma and Ewing’s sarcoma and develop tailored treatments for children with these diseases. The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of [...]
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Thanks a million to the Baldridges
“What could the Children’s Research Institute do with $1 million?” That was the question that Emy Lou and Jerry Baldridge asked Dr. Sean Morrison, director of the Children’s Research Institute, a new joint venture between Children’s Medical Center and UT Southwestern Medical Center. “We will take innovative approaches to make transformative discoveries – discoveries that [...]
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Urology program takes top honors
When a 12-year-old ranks among the nation’s elite for the fourth year in a row, it’s time to celebrate. So, let the celebration begin. For the fourth year in a row, U.S. News & World Report honored the Center for Pediatric Urology at Children’s Medical Center Dallas as one of its top programs in the [...]
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Experts, Patient Features, Research
Getting messy for a cause
Jude Cobler’s life is sanitized for his own protection. Not much can be messy and that’s hard for a kid. But a couple of days ago, Jude got to be just the opposite of neat. Jude, a patient at Children’s, underwent a bone marrow transplant in December 2010 and still has to be careful about [...]
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