Akron Children’s researchers discovered a worrying trend after Ohio made recreational cannabis legal. Many more young kids are accidentally eating cannabis products, and some are getting so sick they need to stay in the hospital. The researchers studied data the Ohio Poison Control Center collected from January 2018 to December 2024. They found 5,387 cases […]
Research
Through extensive research, Dr. Cohen is advancing treatment in mitochondrial medicine to treat patients at home and around the globe
In 2011, Bruce Cohen, MD, joined Akron Children’s to open a program and pursue work in clinical trials to advance mitochondrial medicine at a time when funding for this research was in its infancy. “Frankly, a lot of the large institutions weren’t interested in studying these diseases,” he said. “It wasn’t because it wasn’t important, […]
Study finds increase in non-invasive respiratory support therapies are not correlated with reduced breathing tube use in PICUs
A retrospective study, led by Akron Children’s pediatric intensivist Dr. Jonathan Pelletier, may lead to further review of various respiratory support options used in treating for infants and toddlers for bronchiolitis. Bronchiolitis, usually caused by RSV, is the most common reason for children under age two to be hospitalized and drove a three-fold increase in […]
Mother/daughter cherish the opportunity to work together in the PICU, hope their research will leave it a better place
When Cathleen Tichy-Dreher, known to all as “Tichy,” a nurse practitioner with more than 4 decades of experience in pediatric critical care, joined Akron Children’s PICU in 2019, she noticed that the nurse practitioners and the medical residents in the unit were not working as collegially as she had experienced at her previous hospitals. Advance […]
NEOMED, Akron Children’s physician-scientist Ronald Seese wins prestigious NIH award
The High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, supported by the Common Fund at the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a $1.95 million grant to Ronald R. Seese, M.D., Ph.D., a developmental neurologist at Akron Children’s and an associate professor of pediatrics at Northeast Ohio Medical University. The 2023 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (DP5) is across […]
Family uses movement to help with mitochondrial symptoms
Marianne Paluch knew something was off with her daughter and son when they were young. She noticed her daughter Tori had stiff muscles, would complain of leg pain at night and had other mysterious symptoms. At first, Marianne and Tori’s doctors chalked her symptoms up to growing pains, but it was when her teacher mentioned […]
