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Every year over 240,000 kids across Canada are brought to hospital emergency centres with the stomach flu. Dr. Stephen Freedman of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute is preparing to begin the largest study in Canada of the use of a probiotic agent as a method to modify the disease process and reduce the suffering in children... |
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Dr. Morris Scantlebury is a pediatric neurologist and a researcher at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute who is researching new therapies to treat infantile spasms, a rare type of epilepsy that can be difficult to treat. |
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Generous community support is helping Brain Health researchers study a promising new form of treatment. Researchers at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute for Child and Maternal Health will be examining the use of non-invasive brain stimulation as a potential new treatment for depression in adolescents. |
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Alberta Children’s Hospital researchers have discovered a gene that has eluded scientists for more than 60 years. A North American study led by Dr. Francois Bernier at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute has identified the gene which causes Nager Syndrome - a condition which causes deformation in a child’s face and limbs, as well as deafness. |
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