A World of Hope
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In late April, the International Patient Services team welcomed CHOP’s 1,500th international patient, 22-month-old Abdulrahman Alotaibi.
Department of Global Medicine News and Updates
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X-Ray Elevates Diagnosis from Pneumonia to Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
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Read a case study about a previously healthy 12-year-old boy presented to CHOP Urgent Care with fever and nonproductive cough.
The Newborn and Infant Chronic Lung Disease Program
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The Newborn and Infant Chronic Lung Disease Program at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is one of the largest programs of its kind in the world.
Safety Training in the Dominican Republic
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Tracey Haines was one of seven Global Health Allies who traveled to the Dominican Republic in 2013 to train a group of Dominican health promoters in topics like child development, parenting and accident prevention.
Updates from CHOP Global Health Fellows
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Our 2013-2015 Global Health fellows, Kate Westmoreland, MD, and Chloe Turner, MD, reflect on their experiences in South Africa and the Dominican Republic.
Global Health Conference Recap
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More than 200 physicians, nurses, social workers and others attended CHOP’s sixth annual Global Health Conference on Nov. 1, 2013, titled “Violence Against Children: Global Perspectives on Resilience, Response and Health Outcomes.”
When T Cells Cause Potentially Deadly Excessive Inflammation: Case Study
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A previously healthy 7-year-old male presented with a six-day history of fever, right upper quadrant abdominal pain, vomiting and jaundice. Read the case study.
A Rare Level of Expertise in the Diagnosis and Care of Lung Lesions
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The CFDT at CHOP has managed the care of more than 1,600 pregnancies prenatally diagnosed with lung lesions. Through this experience, the team has learned that the natural history and clinical spectrum of these lesions is extremely variable and requires meticulous prenatal diagnosis.
Focal vs. Diffuse Patients: Comparing Outcomes
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Researchers at CHOP’s HI Center conducted a study comparing the clinical features, treatments and short-term outcomes of children with HI who underwent pancreatectomies.
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research Focuses on Improving Care
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Recently, researchers investigating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia led an international collaboration of researchers to discover multiple gene variants responsible for developing early-onset and adult-onset IBD.