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February 4, 2019

Study finds antibody response patterns in gut bacteria in children could be linked to future type 1 diabetes diagnosis

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.

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February 1, 2019

Celebrating two years of SickKids and SickKids CCMH working together to strengthen the children’s mental health continuum of care

Today marks the second anniversary of the launch of SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health (SickKids CCMH).

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February 1, 2019

Canada, EU, and Africa combine to allow researchers to analyze health data on the largest, most diverse scale

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.

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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

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.

Scientist looking into a microscope

January 17, 2019

SickKids study finds blood tests alone may be effective strategy for detecting cancer relapse in certain patients

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.

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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.

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January 7, 2019

Study finds higher body mass index (BMI) is a risk factor for iron deficiency in children one to three years of age

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.

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January 4, 2019

Congratulations to our staff who have won awards!

Congratulations to the SickKids staff members who have been recognized over the past few months by the health-care and scientific communities for their outstanding achievements and groundbreaking work.

December 31, 2018

We're celebrating another great year at SickKids!

A big thank you to all our staff, volunteers, patients, families, community partners and supporters for making 2018 another memorable year at SickKids. Join us as we take a trip back through the year to celebrate our many successes!

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