U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD, recently visited Beary Cherry Tree Care Center in Metairie in recognition of his support of the Child Care and Development Block Grant.
The two largest providers of pediatric healthcare in Louisiana are joining together to provide families even more access to innovative and quality healthcare. Children’s Hospital New Orleans and Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Health recently signed a letter of intent to create a regional pediatric cardiovascular surgical healthcare delivery network.
Ochsner Health Network (OHN) announced that in 2017-2018, it achieved over $34 million in shared savings and $5.5 million in quality payments from its value-based agreements with two of Louisiana’s largest commercial health insurers. The organization achieved its largest shared savings to date in recognition of the significant improvements in patient outcomes and quality care measures its physicians delivered in 2017-2018. These results add to recent success with senior populations generated by the Ochsner Accountable Care Network (OACN).
The Tulane Neuroscience Center’s neurosurgery team became the first in the Gulf South region to successfully deploy an innovative new treatment for brain aneurysms, just two months after it was approved for use in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration.
Research led by Michael Lan, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, found that a compound named 5'-iodotubercidin (5'-IT) suppresses the growth of neuroblastoma cells and identified a potential new therapeutic approach for the disease. The paper was published in the April 12, 2019, issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
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