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Pedigrees are diagrams showing how inherited diseases occur in a family. The CBMi’s new app lets genetic counselors draw pedigrees with a few finger taps during a patient encounter.
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Officials from CHOP and AtlantiCare announced a new partnership that delivers CHOP newborn and pediatric care to the southeastern New Jersey communities AtlantiCare serves.
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Diane Spatz, PhD, RN, shares best practices for breastfeeding sick babies and how to adapt to Southeast Asia hospitals at meeting in Thailand.
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In its latest survey of U.S. medical schools, U.S. News & World Report ranked The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Department of Pediatrics as no. 1 in the nation.
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CHOP genetic research shows that higher body mass index (BMI) causes harmful effects on the risk of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and inflammation.
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Donations from Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance and the Hamilton and Finneran Families helps launch Penn Medicine/CHOP Center to improve research and care for Friedreich's Ataxia, a rare, degenerative disease.
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CHOP offers one of the nation’s premier programs to treated the severe allergy eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE).
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The increase in centers performing fetal surgery for spina bifida — which was spearheaded at CHOP — led to the creation of a national task force to develop standards for care.
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Oksana Jackson, MD, collaborated with physicians in Hungary and Ukraine to operate on children with complex cases of cleft lip and palate.
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A CHOP researcher co-led a large study that found 11 new genetic signals linked to blood pressure levels. Ten of these signals encode proteins that appear to be likely drug targets.