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A New Office Empowers Employee-inventors
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The Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (OEI) at CHOP teamed up with Michele Davey, RN, and her colleagues to improve patients' IV protectors. They created the See-IV, a protective cover with a clear window that allows a quick, unobtrusive check of an IV site.
A Day in the Life of a Pet Therapy Dog
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Tarot, an 18-month-old Rhodesian Ridgeback, is one of the 53 dogs in the Gerald B. Shreiber Pet Therapy Program. This is a day in his life.
CHOP Patients Ponder Outer Space
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CHOP patients enjoyed a week of camp activities with a space theme that included a session on decorating rocket ships then “launching” them on a track. We got some of the kids’ thoughts about outer space.
Getting a Grasp on Gluten
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A strict gluten-free diet is the only treatment for those who have celiac disease. However, a nutrition expert cautions healthy individuals against adopting a gluten-free diet without speaking with their physicians first.
Daisy Days Attracts Well-wishers from across the Globe
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People from nearly 70 countries sent messages of inspiration to our patients during CHOP’s Daisy Days campaign in May. The campaign raised more than $1 million to fund groundbreaking research and lifesaving treatments.
Accelerating the Search for Customized Treatments
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Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have made extraordinary advances in the field of personalized medicine over the past decade, and the Roberts Collaborative for Genetics and Individualized Medicine will usher in a new era of genetic medicine.
CHOP’s Gardens - A Bright Spot for Healing and Renewal
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With the help of philanthropy, volunteers and staff, CHOP has created five distinctive gardens that function as colorful, fragrant and living extensions of CHOP’s mission to help all children reach their potential.
Partnering with Philadelphia to Improve Health and Literacy
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In South Philadelphia, you can go to the library while waiting to see a CHOP physician and play on the playground afterward -- all at the same location.
A Bank that Nourishes
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The recently opened Mothers’ Milk Bank at CHOP allows mothers to contribute, in an important way, to the health of other babies in the N/IICU whose mothers cannot produce enough milk.
Measuring Up
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CHOP patient families team up with the Trisomy 21 Program and the Down Syndrome Growing Up Study led by researchers at CHOP to measure the growth of patients with Down syndrome over a four-year period. Their findings will help provide answers to parents concerned about their children's growth.