A Day in the Life: Petra Molnar, PhD
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As a research trainee in infectious diseases, Dr. Molnar studies metabolic regulators to develop promising antimalarial therapies. Follow a day in her life.
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Mental Health: It Takes a Village
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A Q&A with Tami Benton, MD, who has led the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences since 2010.
The Power of Nutrition
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CHOP’s Culinary Medicine program develops recipes that can help ease physical symptoms or otherwise improve children’s health.
Planting the Seeds of a Healthy Diet
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The innovative Food as Medicine program bring food and nutrition education to families facing food instability.
Why I Give: Karyn Wire
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In 2016, our 8-year-old son Justin was airlifted to CHOP for emergency brain surgery. It hit us out of nowhere. When his sister and brother visited, Child Life came in with things like Legos and Play-Doh to distract them from his scary head wrap and get them to just play together. It took the fear out of the room.
Giving Through Gratitude: Gigi’s Story
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The Hess family nearly lost their daughter to a deadly virus. Since then, they’ve given back by partnering with CHOP to help foster kids.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Receives Multi-Million Dollar Gift from Holveck Family to Support Groundbreaking Osteosarcoma Research
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has received a $6.4 million gift from the family of Connor Boyle, a Central Bucks East High School graduate who died at age 18 from osteosarcoma. This three-year gift, named The Connor Initiative: Precision Therapeutics for Osteosarcoma & Rare Cancers, will support cutting-edge research in osteosarcoma and other rare cancers.
Congenital Hyperinsulinism Center Frontier Program Highlights
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CHOP’s HI Center, a Frontier Program, continues to set the standard for caring for children with congenital hyperinsulinism.
CHOP’s Buddy Walk & Family Fun Day Raises $260,000+ for Trisomy 21 Program
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On Sunday, October 8, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) hosted its annual Buddy Walk & Family Fun Day benefiting the hospital’s Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) Program, which supports healthier futures for patients and helps to improve the lives of individuals with Down syndrome.