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CHOP Earns No. 1 Ranking on U.S.News & World Report List
CHOP earned the number one ranking in the 2013-14 U.S.News & World Report Honor Roll of Best Children's Hospitals announced today.
June 11, 2013
Training and Advising Pediatricians in Antibiotic Usage Improves Compliance with Prescription Guidelines
A new study suggests that educating pediatricians in their offices, and auditing their prescription patterns, encourages them to choose more appropriate antibiotics for children with common respiratory infections.
June 11, 2013Drop in BMI Improves Insulin Sensivitity in Obese Teens
In a family-based weight loss program, obese teens who reduced their BMI by 8 percent had better insulin sensitivity, a factor linked to type 2 diabetes.
June 6, 2013
CHOP Celebrates 1,000 Fetal Surgeries
Eighteen years after opening its Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment, CHOP hits a record-breaking milestone: 1,000 fetal surgeries.
June 6, 2013Adenoid-tonsil Surgery Benefits Children With Sleep Apnea
Children with sleep apnea who had adenoid-tonsil surgery had better behavior and quality of life than those not receiving surgery.
May 21, 2013Researchers Discover Cause for Abnormal Heart Vessels
A pediatric cardiologist at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is a first author of new research that identifies a mutation that disrupts the formation of veins bringing blood to the heart very early in development.
May 13, 2013CHOP Scientist Collaborates in Heart Disease Gene Study
A physician-researcher from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Elizabeth Goldmuntz, MD, is one of the senior leaders of a research consortium reporting important gene changes that may help explain why children are born with heart defects.
May 13, 2013Turning Human Cells Into Brain Cells Offers New Insights
Medical researchers have manipulated human stem cells into producing types of brain cells known to play important roles in neurodevelopmental disorders such as epilepsy, schizophrenia and autism.
May 7, 2013National Teen Driving Report Finds Gains for Teen Passengers
Teen passenger fatalities declined 30 percent in crashes involving teen drivers, most teen passengers ‘always’ buckle up, and less than a quarter ride with drivers who were drinking.
May 1, 2013CHOP to Build New Specialty Care Center in King of Prussia
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) today announced plans to open an 115,000-square-foot Specialty Care Center in a new development on North Gulph Road in King of Prussia, Pa.
May 1, 2013CHOP, Penn HIV Study Finds Better Outcomes for Children
First large-scale study to compare treatments for HIV-infected children finds that the less-used regimen is more effective for children in low-resource settings. The results of the study of more than 800 children are published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
April 30, 2013CHOP in the Media
CBS Sunday Morning Features CHOP Cancer Research
The Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation has helped pay for nearly 300 cancer studies, some of them at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Now ten years after Alex's death, the oncologist who treated her at CHOP is making breakthroughs in the treatment of a specific kind of childhood cancer.
June 2, 2013
HLNTV Highlights CHOP’s “Day of Beauty”
Children with craniofacial conditions treated by the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery had a day of pampering, and a special visitor.
May 22, 2013Philadelphia Inquirer Highlights Fetal Surgery Patient
Medical breakthroughs like fetal surgery for spina bifida wouldn’t be possible without the courage of families who led the way.
March 12, 2013FOX Features Patient of Fetal Surgery to Remove Lung Mass
Elijah Leffingwell made his first trip to CHOP before he was born to undergo fetal surgery at the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment.
March 3, 2013ABC World News Tonight Celebrates HLHS Patient’s Milestone
Prenatally diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), Stosh Frydlewicz underwent an in utero procedure at CHOP that saved his life.
December 22, 2012