Case Study: When Spinal Surgery Can Improve Mobility for Children with Spastic Diplegic Cerebral Palsy
Read this case study to learn how spinal surgery can help improve mobility for children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy.
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Headache Case Study: When to Worry, When to Treat
This case study discusses when primary care professionals should refer their patients to a specialist.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine Receives Up to $10 Million ARPA-H Award to Create Tool for Sharing Data on Cancer and Rare Diseases
Oct 18, 2017
This award will help research, validate and implement a new model for sharing and integrating data at a national level.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers Use AI-Powered Method to Identify Genetic Epilepsies Much Earlier than Current Genetic Diagnosis
Jul 31, 2024
New method, bolstered by a study of 89 million points of data, could help patients receive precision care months or years earlier
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers Find Some Patients with Aicardi Goutières Syndrome Have Normal IQ
Jun 24, 2024
While unable to speak, patients can understand parents and caregivers, paving the way for future clinical trial design
Researchers Develop New Tool for Better Classification of Inherited Disease-Causing Variants
May 21, 2024
Tool is freely available for researchers and conforms to evolving research guidelines
CHOP Researchers Develop New Strategy for Assessing Natural History of Leukodystrophies
Apr 22, 2024
The methodology developed in this study could help guide clinical trial design for many rare diseases
CHOP Researchers Use Human Stem Cells to Model a Severe Epilepsy Syndrome and Identify a Potential Targeted Treatment
Nov 21, 2023
An experimental compound might be further developed as an effective treatment approach for affected patients.
CHOP Researchers Show Epilepsy and Autism Symptoms in Dravet Syndrome May Be Caused by Separate Mechanisms
Aug 22, 2023
Dravet syndrome is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder defined by treatment-resistant epilepsy and features related to autism spectrum disorder.
Interdisciplinary Fetal/Neuro Approach to ACC
Aug 22, 2023
Agenesis of the corpus callosum (ACC) is one of the most common referrals seen in the prenatal period at the Richard D. Wood Jr. Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment (CFDT) at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).