Researchers are working to determine the genetic causes of asthma, as well as family and environmental influences that could promote asthma. Fayez K. Ghishan, M.D., director of the Steele Memorial Children's Research Center, with his young patient, Andrew Martinez. That soon will change because of a grant from the National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine. The NIH has funded the Children's Research Center, headed by Fayez K. Ghishan, M.D., director of the Steele Memorial Children's Research Center, and the Program in Integrative Medicine, headed by Andrew Weil, M.D., to be the first center in the country to study alternative medicine in pediatrics. Researchers at the Children's Research Center conducted clinical trials to test the new vaccine for Chicken Pox, which recently gained FDA approval.
Good health starts before a baby is born.
Making medical research a national priority is an investment in the future of this country. Some cancers, such as neuroblastoma, a common solid tumor cancer, still carry a very poor prognosis. Center researchers are working to change those statistics by developing new treatments for this childhood cancer.