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Abbie Miller

Turning Evidence Into Advocacy
 Turning Evidence Into Advocacy 1024 574 Abbie Miller
By: Abbie Miller
A girl in a bright pink shirt smiles while sitting beside a large hospital window and looking outside.

The healthcare community is increasingly recognizing their role in shaping policy, leveraging front-line experience, injury data and research. In June 2024, 11-year-old Avery Russell was playing at a friend’s house when she was viciously attacked by two dogs. What happened that day changed her life — and it ultimately led to a change in Ohio’s…

Stronger Together: The Unique Power of the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association
 Stronger Together: The Unique Power of the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association 595 212 Abbie Miller
By: Abbie Miller

The Ohio Children’s Hospital Association (OCHA) was formed 40 years ago when the CEOs of Ohio’s six children’s hospitals got together to address a new methodology for reimbursement that did not take into consideration pediatric conditions and acuity. “Ohio’s children’s hospitals are safety net hospitals for kids and the largest Medicaid providers in the state;…

Evaluation of New-to-Market Coin-Cell Battery and Medical Management Recommendations
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By: Abbie Miller
X-ray image showing a button battery lodged in a child's throat, with a callout showing a close up of the battery, highlighting the double ring around it

First peer-reviewed evaluation of a commercially available esophageal-protective lithium coin-cell battery demonstrates substantially reduced tissue injury, but researchers emphasize that current emergency medical management should remain unchanged. When a lithium coin-cell battery becomes lodged in a child’s esophagus, severe tissue injury can develop rapidly. According to the first peer-reviewed scientific evaluation of a commercially available…

Mutation-Specific Therapy Brings New Hope for Patient With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
 Mutation-Specific Therapy Brings New Hope for Patient With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy 1024 484 Abbie Miller
By: Abbie Miller
A man with Duchenne muscular dystrophy sits in a wheelchair between two family members

Justin Nicholoff is the first patient at Nationwide Children’s to receive del-zota through a managed access program. Since research into exon skipping therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) took off about 15 years ago, Justin Nicholoff has waited for a therapy designed for his specific genetic mutation. In June, his wait ended as he became…

Treating Cystic Fibrosis Before Birth May Prevent Some of Its Earliest Complications
 Treating Cystic Fibrosis Before Birth May Prevent Some of Its Earliest Complications 1024 575 Abbie Miller
By: Abbie Miller

At Nationwide Children’s, fetal medicine and pulmonary specialists are collaborating to offer an emerging prenatal treatment approach. For children with cystic fibrosis, disease-related injury can begin before birth. Now, clinicians at Nationwide Children’s are using a cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator modulator — commonly called a CFTR modulator — during pregnancy with the goal of…

The Future of Bipolar Disorder Management: Beyond the Clinic and Into the Community
 The Future of Bipolar Disorder Management: Beyond the Clinic and Into the Community 1024 683 Abbie Miller
By: Abbie Miller
Teen sitting curled up on a couch, looking out a bright window, appearing thoughtful or pensive.

A new, state-of-the-field publication lays out tools and evidence for building community-based systems of care for youth with bipolar. Individuals with bipolar disorders, a set of mental health conditions characterized by fluctuations in mood with periods of depression and mania, spend far more time dealing with the chronic burden of managing the disease than they…

Inside the Science of Pediatric Lung Disease: A Special Section
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By: Abbie Miller
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A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR Our breath connects us with the moment, grounds us and has the power to calm our minds and bodies. But for millions of children, an easy breath is not guaranteed. Lung disease accounts for about a third of admissions to children’s hospitals. From the common culprits, such as asthma, to…

In Sight: Targeted Muscle Reinnervation
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By: Abbie Miller

Amputation in pediatrics is often a result of traumatic injury or cancers, such as osteosarcoma. At Nationwide Children’s, Thomas Scharschmidt, MD, director of the Orthopedic Oncology Program, is a leader in limb salvage surgery and targeted muscle reinnervation.  Targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) is a surgical technique that reroutes severed peripheral nerves into nearby muscles, giving…

Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts: A Breakthrough for Children With Heart Defects
 Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts: A Breakthrough for Children With Heart Defects 968 1024 Abbie Miller
By: Abbie Miller
Illustration of a heart showing the Fontan surgery

An innovation 30 years in the making is poised to change the way children with single ventricle disease experience life after a Fontan procedure. Children with single ventricle disease are often described as having “half a heart.” What this really means is that one of their ventricles (either the right or left lower chamber of…

Study Shows Younger Children Experience Persistent Symptoms Following Concussion
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By: Abbie Miller and Katelyn Scott

Nearly 30% of children younger than 6 years who had a concussion during the study had prolonged symptoms, which can affect learning and behavior later in childhood. When people typically think of concussion, the first type of patient that comes to mind is a youth athlete. However, concussion is also common in early childhood, due…

A New Candidate Therapeutic Target and Biomarker for Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome
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By: Abbie Miller
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New data provides evidence for the role of endothelium in idiopathic nephrotic syndrome pathogenesis.

Watchful Waiting: The New Recommendation for Most Preterm Infants With PDA
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By: Abbie Miller

A study published in JAMA found that treating patent ductus arteriosus with medication did not help with disease management but was associated with higher mortality.   A new study from the Neonatal Research Network, published in JAMA, found that treating patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in preterm infants with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or acetaminophen at…

Setting the Stage the Next Era of Gene Therapy for Ultrarare Disease
 Setting the Stage the Next Era of Gene Therapy for Ultrarare Disease 1024 576 Abbie Miller
By: Abbie Miller

Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital recently administered a novel gene therapy targeting SLC6A1, advancing precision medicine for children who previously could not be treated. Maxwell, age 8, made history this fall, when he received a bespoke gene therapy targeting his ultrarare disease. This wasn’t the first time he worked with the team at Nationwide Children’s…

Nationwide Children’s Team Builds Award-Winning AI Tool to Drive Mental Health Research
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By: Abbie Miller

DREAM project wins the 2025 Gartner Eye on Innovation Mid-Size Enterprise Award in the Americas region. In recognition of its innovative application of technology to address critical health care challenges, the Office of Data Sciences was selected as the winner for the prestigious 2025 Gartner Eye on Innovation Awards, Mid-Size Enterprise, Americas.  This international honor…

Making Universal Donor CAR NK Cells
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By: Abbie Miller

This article appeared in the 2025 Fall/Winter print issue. Download the issue here.   Image credit: Nationwide Children’s Read the Full Article: Universal Donor CAR NK Cells: A New Platform Technology for Cancer

Universal Donor CAR NK Cells: A New Platform Technology for Cancer
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By: Abbie Miller
Intravenous (IV) chemotherapy or Cell therapy treatment bag surrounded by cancer cells, fighting the disease

A first-in-human study of universal donor CAR NK cells for acute myeloid leukemia could pave a path for a new approach to treating cancer If you ask Dean Lee, MD, PhD, the new first-in-human trial to evaluate universal donor chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) natural killer (NK) cells in patients with advanced, high-risk acute myeloid leukemia…

Transforming the Approach to Cancer Epigenomic Studies
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By: Abbie Miller

Two new publications from the Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Nationwide Children’s offer a new platform technology and proof of concept that illuminates the role of a known gene fusion driving rhabdomyosarcoma.  Synergy is an important part of scientific endeavors, and people, teams and organizations who can harness the energy of ideas and passion…

Don’t Oversize Your Tissue-Engineered Vascular Grafts: Insights for the Translation of New Surgical Technologies
 Don’t Oversize Your Tissue-Engineered Vascular Grafts: Insights for the Translation of New Surgical Technologies 1024 683 Abbie Miller
By: Abbie Miller
Close-up of gloved hands passing the surgical scissors, operating room, hospital

Study shows that adoption of a tissue engineered vascular graft technology currently in clinical trials would require a shift in surgical approach. Tissue engineered vascular grafts (TEVGs) are designed to overcome two important problems associated with synthetic conduits used in surgeries for children with congenital heart disease (CHD): the lack of growth potential and the…

How Does Modification of RNA Influence the Development of Pediatrics Dilated Cardiomyopathy?
 How Does Modification of RNA Influence the Development of Pediatrics Dilated Cardiomyopathy? 1024 783 Abbie Miller
By: Abbie Miller

New study shows essential role of RNA methlytransferase-mediated m6A modification in regulating heart development. Traditional research to understand the origins of congenital heart disease have focused on understanding how genetic mutations may cause heart problems. Now, a team at Nationwide Children’s Hospital is exploring a new way to understand congenital heart disease (CHD). “How the…

Genetic Variation Contributing to Nephrotic Syndrome
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By: Abbie Miller

Genetic variants in CR1 have significantly different population-specific frequencies and are linked with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) – the leading cause of nephrotic syndrome. Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is a leading cause of nephrotic syndrome — a kidney disorder that causes proteins to leak into the urine causing a variety of complications. FSGS has an…

Who Do You Trust?
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By: Abbie Miller

Health and science communicators face increasing challenges in a world where misinformation abounds and trust is a coveted commodity. You might have heard the phrase “post-truth world” used to describe the shifting dynamics of fact, fiction and trusted sources. With the increase in artificial intelligence (AI) generated content, the end of fact-checking on the world’s…

Clinical Genomics: From Research to Reality
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By: Abbie Miller

Without genomic sequencing, many genetic diseases would never be diagnosed. Genomic testing — whole exome or whole genome sequencing — is vital to reducing the diagnostic odyssey for children with rare, undiagnosed disease. But is genetic analysis only useful in these cases? Experts across the country have long suggested that genomic testing can be even…

From Bench to Bedside: Collaborations Drive Meaningful Change
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By: Abbie Miller

The move from a research-first approach to genomic testing to offer more clinically available assays was driven in part by limitations in current clinical testing offerings, as well as by the decreasing cost and turn-around time of genomic sequencing. This environment drove the development of translational protocols. “Our team works with researchers, clinicians and others…

Genomic Analysis: Overcoming a Formidable Challenge
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By: Abbie Miller

Despite the improvements in scale and speed of generating genomic sequencing data, the challenge of genomic analysis and its costs remains. “In my opinion, the cost of data analysis has always been the largest component of the overall cost,” says Elaine Mardis, PhD, co-executive director of the Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine…

Meet Karen Texter, MD, Director of Fetal Echocardiography at Nationwide Children’s
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By: Abbie Miller

Karen Texter, MD, is a pediatric cardiologist and director of Fetal Echocardiography at Nationwide Children’s. Her clinical and research interests include echocardiography in congenital and acquired heart disease and fetal cardiology. What inspired you to pursue a career in pediatric cardiology? How did you get into fetal cardiology, specifically? My interest in pediatric cardiology really…

Largest Pediatric ECMO Repository in the United States Celebrates 10 Years of Research
 Largest Pediatric ECMO Repository in the United States Celebrates 10 Years of Research 1024 537 Abbie Miller
By: Abbie Miller

The ECMO Repository at Nationwide Children’s Hospital is the first and larges of its kind in children’s hospitals in the United States. In December 2014, The Heart Center and Center for Cardiovascular Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital launched an initiative to prospectively collect biologic samples from pediatric patients undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) – a…

Filling the Pipeline for Behavioral Health Professionals
 Filling the Pipeline for Behavioral Health Professionals 150 150 Abbie Miller and Shannon Caldwell
By: Abbie Miller and Shannon Caldwell

Brittany Schaffner, IMFT-S, LPCC-S, shares how a new college course and professional resources are helping more students meet the need for behavioral health care in pediatrics. Tell us about your role at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. I’m a behavioral health clinical training supervisor here at Nationwide Children’s. I facilitate training programs for a wide range of…

Meet Prof Eileen Africa: Fulbright Scholar and Sports Medicine Expert
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By: Abbie Miller

Prof Eileen Africa, an associate professor in the Division of Movement Science and Exercise Therapy in the Department of Exercise, Sport, and Lifestyle Medicine at Stellenbosch University in South Africa and a Fulbright scholar, recently visited Nationwide Children’s to work with Dr. James MacDonald and the Sports Medicine Team conducting research about the effectiveness of…

Meet Antonio Cabrera, MD, Chief of Cardiology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
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By: Abbie Miller

Antonio Cabrera, MD, FAAP, FAHA, FACC, FHFSA, is the division chief of cardiology and co-director of the Heart Center. He is a professor of pediatrics at The Ohio State University and currently holds the Nationwide George H. Dunlap Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cardiology. Previously, Dr. Cabrera served as the L. George Veasy Presidential Professor at…

Making the Case for Interdisciplinary BPD Care
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By: Abbie Miller

A new review highlights benefits of interdisciplinary BPD management and offers advice on how program development. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) affects more than 40% of preterm infants and is the most common lung disease in infancy. There are long term consequences and comorbidities associated with BPD, including hospitalization, re-hospitalization, emergency department visits, recurrent wheezing and neurodevelopmental…

1 Trillion Cells: Nationwide Children’s Reaches New Milestone for Universal-Donor NK Cell Studies
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By: Abbie Miller
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The Biologics Manufacturing Resource, Nationwide Children’s Cell and Tissue cGMP manufacturing facility, recently achieved a major milestone. The resource has now delivered more than 1 trillion universal donor natural killer (NK) cells to patients. These NK cells are being studied in clinical trials to learn if they can help children and adults with cancer. “This…

4 Things to Know About Bladder Exstrophy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
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By: Abbie Miller

Led by V. Rama Jayanthi, MD, and Peter Cuckow, MB, BS, FRCS, the Bladder Exstrophy Program at Nationwide Children’s is poised to launch a new era of care for children in the United States. When Drs. Jayanthi and Cuckow start talking about their new program, their excitement is palpable. “We’re so excited to bring this…

Treating Obesity With GLP-1s — Finding the Way Forward
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By: Abbie Miller

Using lessons learned from medicating mental and behavioral health conditions, Stephen Cook, MD, offers suggestions about how medications approved for adolescents with obesity should become part of care.   For most of the time in Western medicine, people have treated obesity like a choice — not a disease. Like other conditions now understood to be…

Approaching Uncertainty in Medicine With a Growth Mindset
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By: Abbie Miller

In baseball, a really good batting average is .333 — which means the batter hits the ball and gets to first base a third of the time. That also means they miss —they fail — two-thirds of the time. Medical providers are expected to get things right 100% of the time,” says Michael Patrick, MD,…

Tissue-Engineered Vascular Grafts Resist Calcification
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By: Abbie Miller

Dystrophic calcification is the biggest reason for prosthetic biomaterial failure. Compared to expanded poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (PTFE) grafts, tissue-engineered vascular grafts (TEVGs) exhibited superior durability, including reduced late-term calcification, according to a study published in Nature Communications. “All of the biomaterials we routinely use for cardiovascular surgery are susceptible to dystrophic calcification,” says Christopher Breuer, MD, pediatric…

Virtual Surgical Planning for Musculoskeletal Oncology
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By: Abbie Miller

CT of pelvis showing tumor MRI of pelvis showing tumor Step 1: Data acquisition: Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance images (MRI) are obtained during the same visit with markers used to help align the scans to create the composite image. That composite is used to develop the virtual model. Step 2: The 3D Printing and Innovations…

From Scan to Plan: Making Virtual Surgical Planning the Standard of Care for Ortho-oncology Operations
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By: Abbie Miller

“We deal in rarities,” says Thomas Scharschmidt, MD, director of the Pediatric Orthopedic Oncology Program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and professor of Orthopedics at The Ohio State University. “When you consider that across the entire U.S. population, we have between 2,500 and 3,000 cases of primary malignant bone tumors each year, and only half of…

Supporting Tracheostomy Decision-Making for Families and Providers
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By: Abbie Miller

The Trach Scoring Tool, developed by leaders in bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, offers support for physicians and families. The decision of when to do a tracheostomy on an infant is difficult, to say the least, says Leif Nelin, MD, division chief of Neonatology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. “Every family has different knowledge,…

Demystifying Machine Learning With AutoML
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By: Abbie Miller

A Nationwide Children’s Hospital team from the Office of Data Sciences recently won the Advanced ML tier in the precisionFDA Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) App-a-thon Challenge: Democratizing and Demystifying Artificial Intelligence (AI). Each year, the FDA hosts challenges centered around data science and bioinformatics. This year, the challenge focuses on AutoML, a low-code ML technique…

Transnasal Endoscopy: Easing Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE) Treatment Monitoring
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By: Abbie Miller

Finding the most effective treatment for EoE can be a challenging process. Transnasal endoscopy decreases the burden of repeated endoscopies. Eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders are a chronic and complex group of diseases characterized by having abnormal numbers of eosinophils in parts of the GI tract. This results in chronic inflammation and tissue damage that can lead…

4 Questions With Jeffrey Leonard, MD
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By: Abbie Miller

Jeffrey Leonard, MD, is chief of Neurosurgery and the Robert F. & Edgar T. Wolfe Foundation Endowed Chair in Neurosurgery at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. He is also a principal investigator in the Center for Childhood Cancer Research in the Abigail Wexner Research Institute and a professor of Neurological Surgery at The Ohio State University College…

Accelerating Advances in Epilepsy Surgery
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By: Abbie Miller
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One program is bringing together clinical care, surgery and research to create a brighter future for children with intractable epilepsy. Childhood-onset epilepsy affects 1% of children worldwide. Up to a third of patients with epilepsy will have medically refractory epilepsy, continuing to have seizures despite using two or more antiseizure medications. Options for this group…

Proton Therapy – A New Era of Cancer Therapy for Children
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By: Abbie Miller

Proton therapy offers benefits over traditional photon radiation therapy. Using proton therapy, doctors can give more specific, concentrated doses of radiation with less risk and damage to the surrounding tissue. Subscribe to Pediatrics Online Receive resources like this, tailored to your specialty, in your inbox every month. Subscribe Now Proton therapy is an advanced type…

Supporting Optimal Developmental Outcomes After Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome
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By: Abbie Miller
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Children with prenatal opioid exposure have a higher risk for developmental and behavioral concerns. Prenatal opioid exposure is still far too common. Experts estimate that one infant who has been exposed to opioids is born every 15 minutes in the United States.  While standard diagnostic criteria for neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) were recently proposed,…

Clinical Trial Shows Promising Results for AAV Gene Therapy for LGMD 2E/R4
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By: Abbie Miller

Recently published in Nature Medicine, interim results from a Phase 1/2 trial offer promising results.   Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) 2E/R4 is a rare, progressive neuromuscular disorder caused by mutations in the β-sarcoglycan (SGCB) gene. These mutations lead to SGCB protein deficiency, ultimately resulting in muscle loss. Progressive, debilitating weakness and wasting begin in the…

Novel Cause of Brain Mosaicism and Focal Epilepsy Identified
 Novel Cause of Brain Mosaicism and Focal Epilepsy Identified 1024 575 Abbie Miller
By: Abbie Miller
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In Nature Genetics, researchers report a novel mechanism for the origin of brain chromosomal mosaicism and link brain mosaic chromosome 1q gain to a distinct clinical phenotype.   In most people, every cell in their body contains the same genetic information. However, sometimes people can have two or more genetically different sets of cells. This…

Probiotics Delivered in Biofilm State Protect the Intestines and Brain in NEC Model
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By: Abbie Miller
Medical illustration of an abdomen intestine with a disease

Biofilm formulation of Limosilactobacillus reuteri protects against necrotizing enterocolitis in piglet model.  Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a debilitating and deadly condition affecting infants born preterm. In NEC cases, intestinal tissues become inflamed, and in severe cases, there is ischemia and death of the involved intestines. Treatment for NEC often involves surgery to remove the dying…

Building Hope, Recovery, and Life Beyond Substance Use Disorder
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By: Abbie Miller

Five years ago, Pediatrics Nationwide dedicated its fall issue to a comprehensive look at the effects of the opioid crisis on children and families. At that time, Sarah Parker was working hard to stay sober, recovering from the very crisis holding the nation’s attention. Parker grew up in Chillicothe, Ohio, halfway between Portsmouth, Ohio, the…

Whole Child, Whole Family Care
 Whole Child, Whole Family Care 150 150 Abbie Miller and Jeb Phillips
By: Abbie Miller and Jeb Phillips

Meeting the needs of children and caregivers with evidence-based programming and intentional support for access. Parenting a young child can be tough in the best circumstances. But when you overlay poverty, inequity, and concerns about employment and education on top of it, parenting a young child can feel overwhelming. Whitney Raglin Bignall, PhD, has dedicated…

Preventing Accidental Ingestion of Marijuana
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By: Abbie Miller

If you are a child, and you find a bag of fruit snacks — you don’t eat just one piece. The THC/marijuana products on the market today have an average of 10-20 mg in one serving. That’s one square of a chocolate bar, one gummy (which looks like a fruit snack) or one chip. “THC…