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EASE App Bridges Connection Between Doctors, Families
New app allows doctors in the operating room to communicate with parents in the waiting room.
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Veterans Volunteer For A Special Revitalization Project At The Hubbard House
The Mission Continues chose the Orlando Health hospitality house for one of its service missions.
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Hospitals Honored with National Distinction for Patient Care
Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, South Seminole Hospital Earn 2015 Leapfrog Top Hospital Award
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Arnold Palmer Hospital Expands Pediatric Acute Care Transport Team
The expansion of Arnold Palmer Hospital’s acute care transport team will bring these highly-specialized services to referring hospitals in 18 counties in and around Central Florida. It is estimated the expansion will allow Arnold Palmer Hospital to transport 100 children with serious illnesses or injuries per month. The team will be in operation 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Put down the phone!
Words with Friends. Angry Birds. Facebook. Texting. Online banking. Google. Our smart phones sure are hard to stop playing with. Anyone who’s got one can relate. Smart phones are just… fun. They truly give us the world at our fingertips. But, what happens when we can’t stop playing with that world and we start ignoring the one that we actually live in?
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How clinical trials make a difference in the lives of kids with cancer
This September is Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month. To truly understand how important this awareness month is to all pediatric oncology patients and their families, it’s important to recognize some of the key statistics regarding pediatric cancer.
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Get to Know Clinical Geneticist, Dr. Ingrid Cristian
Clinical genetics is an area of medicine you may not be very familiar with, but it’s a rapidly evolving discipline that offers us much-needed clues about the how and why of disease.
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Lead poisoning: How the Flint water crisis is bringing an old problem back into view
You may have seen the ongoing news coverage of the crisis in Flint, Michigan where the city’s water supply has exposed potentially tens of thousands of people to toxic levels of lead. Children are especially vulnerable to lead exposure, and in fact it was a pediatrician, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, who was one of the first to publicly call for city and state officials to address water safety concerns after finding high levels of lead in several children.
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Children are the silent victims of domestic abuse
This is the second part of our series where we’ll talk about the silent victims of domestic abuse- children. I’m sharing this information with you to help you understand how domestic abuse impacts children. The first part addressed different forms of abuse and how children could be exposed to it. This second part will talk about how they are affected and what can be done to help them.
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Christina Annette Herrera, MD
Christina Herrera, MD, MSCI, is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist specializing in maternal fetal medicine with the Orlando Health Women's Institute Center for Maternal Fetal Medicine. In addition to her dedication to providing the best care for high-risk mothers and babies, she has a special interest in medical education and research.
