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CHOP Is a Founding Member of New NIH-Funded Research Consortium to Test New Cancer Treatments for Children
Building on its decades-long investigations in the biology and treatment of neuroblastoma, CHOP will lead the consortium’s neuroblastoma research program.
Children’s Hospitals Are Shifting Away from CT Use to Other Imaging Tools
Hospitalized children are less likely to receive CT scans for common diagnoses, and more likely to receive MRIs and ultrasound--which don’t use ionizing radiation.
World’s First Child to Receive a Bilateral Hand Transplant Returns Home from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Zion Harvey, the world’s first child to receive a bilateral hand transplant earlier this summer, was discharged from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) earlier today.
Genetic Overlapping in Multiple Autoimmune Diseases May Suggest Common Therapies
Scientists who analyzed the genes involved in 10 autoimmune diseases that begin in childhood have discovered 22 genome-wide signals shared by two or more diseases
World’s first bilateral hand transplant on a child performed at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Surgeons at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia joined with colleagues from Penn Medicine recently to complete the world’s first bilateral hand transplant on a child.
Technically Speaking: Screening Patients for Contraindications and Precautions to Vaccination
Before giving any doses of vaccines, clinicians should make sure patients and parents are carefully questioned about contraindications or precautions to vaccination. Find out about resources available to help clinicians ensure these details are not overlooked
Novel Treatments Emerging for Human Mitochondrial Diseases
Using lithium and other drugs in cell and animal models, CHOP researchers may have broken a logjam in devising effective treatments for mitochondrial diseases.
CEO of Nation’s First Children’s Hospital Documents History of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, authored by the Hospital’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Madeline Bell, contains more than 200 never-before-published vintage photographs and stories.
Pinpointing Mutations in a Relapsed Cancer May Lead to Better Treatments
CHOP neuroblastoma researchers have detailed how cancer-driving mutations evolve during chemotherapy, and they aim to exploit this knowledge to design better treatments for children.
Technically Speaking: Suggestions About Finding Old Immunization Records
Find information on how doctor offices can help their patients track down missing immunization records so the child won’t need to repeat doses or be completely revaccinated.