| Thu, 23 Aug 2007 | | <p>Robotic surgery and HIFU are innovative, but it isn't clear that they trump conventional treatments</p> | | More information |
| Thu, 23 Aug 2007 | | In Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole, political theorist and University of Maryland Prof. Benjamin Barber argues that we have shifted from a "work hard" ethic to one that idealizes immediate gratification and selfishness. In the process, he says, we have lost our sense of civic responsibility. He points to high divorce rates, adults who act the way kids do, and the glorification of shopping as Americans' new national pastime. In an E-mail interview, U.S. News asked him why he was so dismayed with consumer culture. | | More information |
| Fri, 24 Aug 2007 | | It is a steamy summer afternoon in Houston, where 4-year-old Makenna Franks has been in open-heart surgery at Texas Children's Hospital for more than five hours. All went well. Now the groggy little girl is wheeled into the cardiovascular intensive-care unit, where nurses crowd around her and exchange greetings with her parents, Brandi and Bobby Franks. Like many of the more than 20,000 kids admitted each year, Makenna has been here before. This is her third major heart surgery. The goal of this early August visit is to make it her last one. | | More information |
| Fri, 24 Aug 2007 | | Informed last summer that the only hope for their son's Crohn's disease was to remove his colon, John and Brenda Ricci made good on a vow. "We always said if it ever gets real serious we would [switch] to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia," says Brenda of the life-altering surgery prescribed for John Paul, now almost 11, who was plagued by diarrhea and nasty side effects from steroids he had to take. | | More information |
| Fri, 24 Aug 2007 | | In July, America's Best Hospitals turned 18. From the very first, U.S. News has ranked hospitals in pediatrics, identifying medical centers that excel at helping the sickest young patients. We've heard reassuringly few complaints through the years that one or another of the ranked hospitals might not merit such distinction. | | More information |
| Fri, 24 Aug 2007 | | U.S. News Score. Summarizes overall quality of inpatient care. A score of 100 is assigned to the top-ranked hospital. | | More information |
| Fri, 24 Aug 2007 | | For the past 18 years, we have ranked pediatric hospitals. But now we are taking a giant step forward. | | More information |
| Fri, 24 Aug 2007 | | For me, having newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit was like living in purgatory. After months of anticipation?filled with happy tasks like decorating the nursery?suddenly I wasn't sure when my twins might leave the hospital or whether they'd be disabled when they came home. | | More information |
| Wed, 22 Aug 2007 | | Maintaining internal E-mail systems has long been the bane of the university information-technology director. Servers are unwieldy and unreliable, and in the past several years, the number of student complaints ("It's all junk," says one) has grown exponentially as forward-moving providers like YahooMail, Hotmail, and Gmail have increased expectations of what E-mail should offer. | | More information |
| Wed, 22 Aug 2007 | | Between baseball practices and play rehearsals, it can be hard to find time to talk to your kids about college much less chat with their high school counselor. But with the number of applications to college setting records every year, it's more important than ever. So we asked a few counselors from different types of schools across the country some of the questions they get asked most often. And because they also are parents of kids that have gone off to college, our three counselors have an extra-sharp focus on what you should be discussing in your next appointment in the guidance office. | | More information |
| Wed, 22 Aug 2007 | | Kids heading back to enlightened schools this fall may find nutrition and exercise on the agenda even in math class. In an effort to reverse the alarming increase of obesity in children, some schools have found ways to encourage healthful lifestyle changes without emphasizing the negative?too much body weight. (A focus on losing weight has been shown to backfire, causing youngsters to turn to fad diets and develop eating disorders.) Planet Health, developed by Harvard University researchers and now used in hundreds of schools throughout the country, integrates obesity prevention lessons into the science, math, and social studies curricula, for example. Students come to appreciate the importance of reducing TV time by calculating during math class the amount of their lifetime they've spent in front of the set. In gym, they decide on goals for subbing in physical activity instead. | | More information |
| Tue, 21 Aug 2007 | | As the 2008 presidential election turns serious, all the leading candidates are beginning to woo entrepreneurs. But each has tried different appeals to small business. | | More information |
| Tue, 21 Aug 2007 | | The franchising industry is aging beautifully, but there's one segment of it that stays forever young. Youthful, energetic, ever-growing and impulsive, the kids' market definitely reflects its target population. | | More information |
| Tue, 21 Aug 2007 | | An increase in newly chartered community banks is providing entrepreneurs with an alternative to banking with the big guys. | | More information |
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