CHOP’s Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment and Fetal Heart Program, performs fourth successful fetal heart surgery to remove life-threatening tumor.

After nearly a year at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), conjoined twins Amari and Javar Ruffin were successfully separated by CHOP surgeons on August 21, 2024.

The literature reports that one-third of 600 000 children in the United States who are dependent on medical technology are NICU graduates. 

It’s an exciting time for research in the bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) population here at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). 

Antibiotic use in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) decreased substantially over the past decade, according to CHOP researchers.

Lindsay Zajac Adams, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), was the November 2022 recipient of the monthly POPPIES Award.

CHOP has a core team that performs immediate stabilization and resuscitation of high-risk infants during the time immediately after birth.

CHOP researchers have led an international group of experts in developing new guidelines for neonatal resuscitation research.

CHOP researchers have found that before the wide availability of vaccines, newborns were infected with SARS-CoV-2 at variable rates and without apparent short-term effects.

More than 14 years after opening the Garbose Family Special Delivery Unit, the world’s first birth facility exclusively for mothers carrying babies with known birth defects, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia celebrates its 5,000th delivery.