2020

The National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device Innovation (NCC-PDI) has extended the deadline for its annual “Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids!” competition to Feb. 22 at midnight EST. Innovators and startup companies with devices in the pediatric cardiovascular, orthopedic and spine, or NICU sectors are invited to apply for a share of up to $250,000 in FDA-funded awards and access to a newly created NCC-PDI pediatric device accelerator program led by MedTech Innovator.

When pregnant women experience elevated anxiety, stress or depression, these prenatal stressors can alter the structure of the developing fetal brain and disrupt its biochemistry - even if these women have uncomplicated pregnancies and high socioeconomic status, according to Children’s National Hospital research published online Jan. 29, 2020, in JAMA Network Open.

World-renowned surgeon opens first program for care and treatment of colorectal conditions in the mid-Atlantic

The annual "Top Doctors" list from Northern Virginia Magazine features 76 Children’s National Hospital care providers across 25 specialties. 

Knowing that your unborn fetus has congenital heart disease causes such pronounced maternal stress, anxiety and depression that these women’s fetuses end up with impaired development in key brain regions before they are born, according to research published online Jan. 13, 2020, in JAMA Pediatrics.

Submit your applications for the National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device Innovation (NCC-PDI) showcase medical device pitch event on March 23, 2020, in College Park, Maryland. The competition is focused on pediatric devices in three areas of critical need: cardiovascular, orthopedic and spine, and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

Read more about a study that provides first evidence of gluten transfer risk associated with common school supplies such as Play-Doh.