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CHOP Omics Initiative News

Omics helps us get closer to more precise treatments for every patient. Learn what omics means and how we’re revolutionizing the future of pediatric medicine. 

Why Parents Need Self-Compassion

Apr 21, 2022

Practicing self-compassion during troubling times can help parents and their children to become kinder and stronger.

How can we protect teens from vaping?

Mar 31, 2020

Louis Bell, MD, Chief of the Division of General Pediatrics, shares the latest in medical thinking on an important topic: e-cigarettes.

An Hour Changes a Life

Mar 31, 2020

New treatments put the brakes on an often-fatal degenerative muscle disease.

A Day in the Life of a PICU Nurse

Mar 31, 2020

Laura Douglas, RN, BSN, is one of more than 300 PICU nurses who combine rigorous training with innate compassion to care for patients whose lives hang in the balance. This is a day in her life.

Proud to Have Known Alex

Mar 31, 2020

The incredible little girl who founded Alex’s Lemonade Stand was a patient at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Alex Scott was diagnosed with a rare cancer called neuroblastoma at CHOP just before she turned 1. CHOP doctors and nurses fought alongside Alex and her family as they went through the turmoil of pediatric cancer.

New Hope for a Complex Birth Defect

Mar 31, 2020

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a complex and life-threatening birth defect usually discovered at an 18-week ultrasound visit. The CDH Program was recently designated as one of the hospital’s Frontier Programs, a trailblazing group of initiatives pioneering new advances in children’s health.

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