Johns Hopkins Annual Turtle Derby Prelude to Pony Up for Pediatrics
Name a turtle and enter it in the races
Run by first-year medical students and radiography students, the 2013 Johns Hopkins Turtle Derby takes place May 23, at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Proceeds benefit the Department of Child Life at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and the Perkins Day Care Center. The derby is free and open to the public.
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Eating Up Food Allergies: New Approach Eases Kids' Reactions
Food Allergy Awareness Week, May 12-18
Like parents of other children highly allergic to egg, milk, peanut and wheat, Lexi Rosa's parents worried constantly about her food allergies. Then they learned about pediatric allergist Bob Wood’s oral immunotherapy studies.
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Liver Center, Child Life Inaugural Beneficiaries of “Pony Up”
Doctors race in Hippity Hop Challenge
Johns Hopkins Children's Center celebrates its 100th year with one "gallopalooza" of a fundraiser, June 8-9. "Pony Up for Pediatrics" features a gala, a horse show and family festival and was born from the long-held dream of pediatric liver specialist Kathy Schwarz to find cures for patients' devastating liver diseases.
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