Indepenema, a tool developed at CHOP, is a handheld device that allows patients with bowel incontinence to independently administer a cone enema, improving the process.

Urology, General Surgery and Gastroenterology (GI) at CHOP have teamed up to provide a better approach to care for patients with pediatric bladder and bowel dysfunction.

Two years ago, the Division of Urology established one of the country’s first percutaneous posterior tibial nerve stimulation pathways for pediatric bladder dysfunction.

Doctors from CHOP’s Division of Urology helped plan and present at the 2024 Joint Annual Fall Congress, the largest conference in the world dedicated to pediatric urology.

An experimental gene therapy, studied in a preclinical model of Batten disease, was found to slow symptoms and extend lifespan

Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania unlocked important new insights in how the immune system selects the right signals to alert T cells, a vital step in the prevention and treatment of serious illness. The findings were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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Watch as Dr. Handy discusses which adults might benefit from an additional dose of polio vaccine.

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In this piece, Dr. Adzick reflects on the impact the center he helped establish 30 years ago has had on the field and on families.