Morristown Medical Center was recognized by Healthgrades as one of the Top 50 hospital in the nation, based on clinical outcomes three years in a row!
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How to End Screen Time Without A Struggle
Do you ever struggle with getting your kids off the screen? Does it often end in tears (both theirs and yours)? This could help.
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Storms, power outage, snow not enough to stop Push to Walk fundraiser
PUSH TO WALK. A great non-profit organization that helps people living with SPINAL CORD INJURY.
Businessman wouldn’t let two nor’easters, a power outage and about 2 feet of snow stop last week’s Push to Walk fundraisers.
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OUR TWO NEW DOCTORS
OUR TWO NEW DOCTORS
If you know a child with SEIZURES or EPILEPSY please call our team! Drs. Leyda Sanchez-Ortiz and Luke Tomycz are specialists in treating children with epilepsy. We are so happy to have them as part of New Jersey Pediatric Neuroscience Institute (NJPNI). Please call our office to see them!
Call 973-326-9000
Levetiracetam Associated With Less Monotherapy Failure in Infantile Seizures
“Levetiracetam (Keppra) offers greater efficacy than phenobarbital in preventing monotherapy failure in infants with nonsyndromic epilepsy, according to the findings of a multicenter prospective observational study published in JAMA Pediatrics.”1
Basically, what that means, is that Keppra is more effective in preventing seizures in young children with epilepsy.
How do we know? Investigators evaluated a total of 155 infants with nonsyndromic epilepsy who were treated with levetiracetam (n=117) or phenobarbital (n=38) as initial monotherapy within 1 year of the first afebrile seizure. Infants were treated in 17 US pediatric epilepsy centers during a 3-year period (2012 to 2015). A 6-month freedom from monotherapy failure, as defined by seizure freedom within 3 months of treatment initiation and no additional prescribed antiepileptic medication, comprised the binary outcome.1
We have a new PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGIST, who specializes in treating children with epilepsy. Please call us and ask to see Dr. Leyda Sanchez-Ortiz.
1. https://www.neurologyadvisor.com/epilepsy/infantile-seizures-levetiracetam-monotherapy-efficacy/article/748039/
8th Annual Winter Gala
Please JOIN US for an amazing evening for an AWESOME CAUSE. The Goryeb Children’s Hospital Craniofacial Center in conjunction with Morristown Medical Center are hosting an evening to benefit infants and children born with facial or skull deformities. These amazing children put their lives in our hands every day; we are honored to care for them. Please come on Tuesday, March 20, 2018 and note CHILDREN ARE WELCOME!!
Click this link for more info on our 8th Annual Winter Gala –http://www.f4mmc.org/2018WinterGala
Overcoming adversity
Please watch this amazing video featuring our own Dr. Luke Tomycz.
New Website Launch
We are proud to announce the launch of our new website.
Primer on Pediatric Spinal Deformities
Please click here to view this great video on Pediatric Spinal Deformities.
CSF presents “Hydrocephalus”
YouTube: https://youtu.be/xPdmRFf4QNg
Dr. Catherine Mazzola discusses what hydrocephalus is, how it is diagnosed and treated in children and how she and a team of fellow expert neurosurgeons were able to develop clinical guidelines for treatment of pediatric hydrocephalus at the first CSF Chapter lecture in Morristown, New Jersey. This lecture was jointly presented by Chiari & Syringomyelia Foundation and the New Jersey Pediatric Neuroscience Institute. Thank you to all who were involved in putting this together!
For more information and educational materials, please visit our website: http://csfinfo.org