by Maria Rickert Hong | Nov 22, 2022 | FLIGHT Study, News
Jeremiah has begun his baseline assessments. This means that his parents and the FLIGHT™ Study team are busy collecting biosamples (blood, urine, stool, saliva) and also visiting a variety of local clinicians. Some of the clinical visits include a visit with a...
by Maria Rickert Hong | Nov 21, 2022 | FLIGHT Study, News
Meet Jeremiah and his family, the second participants in the Documenting Hope FLIGHT™ Study. Jeremiah is 7 years old, plays all kinds of sports and likes to use his scooter and hang out with neighborhood friends. He has an older brother, Alex, and a younger sister,...
by Maria Rickert Hong | Nov 1, 2022 | FLIGHT Study, News, Research Studies
During the early weeks of the FLIGHT™ Study, the Program Director, Josie Nelson, and Medical Director, Dr. Heather Tallman Ruhm, helped the family collect specimens for a number of at-home diagnostic tests, and to prepare for two blood draws. The list of tests...
by Maria Rickert Hong | Oct 27, 2022 | FLIGHT Study, News
One of the central features of the FLIGHT™ Study is to facilitate collaboration among health and medical professionals from different disciplines. Why is this collaborative process important? It is important because no one health or medical discipline (nutrition,...
by Maria Rickert Hong | Jun 23, 2022 | FLIGHT Study, News
Each FLIGHT™ Family is provided with a parent mentor. The parent mentor is someone who has an impacted child and has been through many of the same biomedical tests and assessments and that are a part of the FLIGHT™ Study. In the earliest days of Ty’s baseline period...
by Maria Rickert Hong | Jun 22, 2022 | CHIRP Study, FLIGHT Study
Ty’s family have completed a large number of baseline developmental and environmental assessments. As part of the FLIGHT™ Study, each family is asked to complete a variety of assessments to establish a baseline for their child’s status cognitively, developmentally,...
