Novel Genes Found in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Under Age 5
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CHOP researchers have found new gene variants involved in an often-severe type of inflammatory bowel disease found in children under age 5.
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CHOP Is a Founding Member of New NIH-Funded Research Consortium to Test New Cancer Treatments for Children
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Building on its decades-long investigations in the biology and treatment of neuroblastoma, CHOP will lead the consortium’s neuroblastoma research program.
Minutes Count in Using Epinephrine in Children with Cardiac Arrest
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Two CHOP Critical Care physicians co-authored a national study showing how timing is crucial when using epinephrine in hospitalized children with cardiac arrest.
Hyundai Hope On Wheels Awards CHOP $400k for Childhood Cancer Research
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The $400,000 Hyundai Scholar Hope Grant will fund childhood cancer research led by Drs. Alix Seif and Robert Schnepp.
Children’s Hospitals Are Shifting Away from CT Use to Other Imaging Tools
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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
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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
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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
Seizures Are Common but Often Not Apparent in Newborns after Heart Surgery
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Newborns who have cardiac surgery for heart disease have a significant risk of potentially severe seizures, which may not be apparent in routine bedside clinical assessments. Pediatric researchers who followed current professional guidelines that recommend continuous encephalographic (EEG) monitoring reported that infants who experienced postsurgical seizures had a higher mortality rate than those without seizures.
CHOP Expert Talks About Keeping Kids Safe on the Playground
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CHOP injury prevention expert and pediatrician shares tips for keeping kids safe on the playground in this Healthy Kids blog post on philly.com.
World’s First Bilateral Hand Transplant on a Child Performed at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
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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.