| HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today announced
$8.5 million in grants to hospitals, medical centers and universities
to support research that will improve the health care of the
nation’s women, children and infants.
The grants were awarded to:
- Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia, $1,607,851;
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, $2,888,821;
- the Boston Medical Center, Boston, $497,768;
- the University of Connecticut in Storrs, $893,843;
- the New York University Medical Center, New York City,
$1,095,186; and the
- Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, Chapel Hill,
N.C., $1,523,028.
Children’s Hospital researchers will conduct a cost-benefit
evaluation of premature infants’ early discharge. Brigham
and Women’s Hospital will look at whether epidural anesthesia
given to women at childbirth causes fever in mothers that
is harmful to their newborn children. The Boston Medical Center
study will evaluate the effect of peer counseling on low-income
women who breastfeed premature infants. Connecticut researchers
will compare assessment and screening tools for autism in
2-year-olds. New York University researchers will conduct
a study of children under 18 years of age who required resuscitation
by New York City Fire personnel. And North Carolina researchers
will examine the effects of early childhood educational interventions
on the lives of minority adults born into low-income families.
The research grants are awarded by HHS’ Health Resources
and Services Administration.
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