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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
Rear Seat Design a Priority for Child Passenger Safety
A research report released today from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) provides specific recommendations for optimizing the rear seat of passenger vehicles to better protect its most common occupants — children and adolescents.
April 29, 2013Scripts Help Novice Instructors Teach Pediatric CPR
New, low-tech teaching techniques used by novice instructors may improve training for healthcare providers in performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on children who suffer cardiac arrest.
April 24, 2013Gene Therapy for Blindness at CHOP Named in Research List
A groundbreaking clinical trial of gene therapy for a form of congenital blindness, sponsored by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in collaboration with Penn Medicine, was recognized with the Distinguished Clinical Research Achievement Award.
April 23, 2013
CHOP Oncologist Leads First Pediatric Dream Team
A physician-researcher from CHOP will lead the first-ever pediatric “Dream Team” solely focused on creating new treatments for the most challenging childhood cancers. $14.5 million grant from St. Baldrick's and Stand Up To Cancer combines immunotherapy and genomics research.
April 7, 2013Cast Your Vote for Ian Krantz and Nancy Spinner for Time 100
Drs. Krantz and Spinner are leaders of a research grant to explore how families can best learn about and use results about their children's genes.
April 5, 2013CHOP and Pfizer Collaborate to Speed Pediatric Research
CHOP is announcing its participation in the Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) network, a novel collaboration model built by Pfizer that brings academic researchers together with Pfizer scientists to expedite the pace of innovation.
April 3, 2013Gene Pathways Suggest Drugs for Children's Brain Tumors
Genomic, molecular findings by CHOP researchers will help inform personalized medicine
March 29, 2013
T-Cell Therapy Kills an Aggressive Leukemia in Two Children
Two children with an aggressive form of childhood leukemia show no evidence of cancer cells in their bodies after treatment with a novel cell therapy that reprogrammed their immune cells to rapidly multiply and destroy leukemia cells.
March 25, 2013Atypical Brain Circuits May Cause Slower Gaze Shifting
Results indicate a precursor to “sticky attention” problems seen in older children with autism
March 20, 2013
GSK Foundation Gift to Help Cancer Patients and Families
CHOP is proud to announce a $500,000 gift from the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Foundation which will greatly enhance the GlaxoSmithKline Hope for Families Fund. The fund provides assistance to eligible families that need help paying for travel and living expenses while their child is enrolled in an investigational treatment at the Cancer Center.
March 18, 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