Music therapist Mike Mahoney, MA, MT-BC, offers up instruments from his cart: maracas, a drum, a keyboard. The children at the Alex Scott Day Hospital are eager to sing and play music.

Sedation is common before procedures and scans such as an MRI, and as a child life specialist in Radiology’s Sedation Unit, Melanie Hoynoski is there to prepare kids on what to expect.

When leaders at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia wanted more insight into the patient experience and how it could be improved, they sought out experts: The kids themselves.

In the latest report from CHOP’s Division of General, Thoracic and Fetal Surgery, we highlight some of the ways our clinicians — with the help of philanthropic partners — are breaking new ground in pediatric and fetal surgery.

Read a case study about a previously healthy 12-year-old boy presented to CHOP Urgent Care with fever and nonproductive cough.

Read a case study about a 14-year-old boy presented to Urgent Care for a skin lesion on his right foot, which had been present for 3 weeks.

Ninety percent of children and adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) went into remission after receiving an investigational therapy, CTL019.

Thanks to the support of our donor community, the 2014 Four Seasons Parkway Run & Walk raised $1,275,000 for pediatric cancer research and care at CHOP. Watch the video of this year's event.

Now that school is back in session, it is very important to continue to eat renal-friendly foods when away from home.

Read a case study from the Diabetes Center about a 14-year-old female and her eventual diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma.