While mitochondrial function recovered in the lungs, function did not recover in the heart and other organs, leading to long-term damage and a possible explanation for detrimental effects of “long COVID”.

Nettle, a 2-year-old yellow Labrador Retriever, has joined Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) as the organization’s second facility dog.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia announced it has received a $1 million gift from The GIANT Company to fund the expansion of its Food Pharmacy program to the Nicholas and Athena Karabots Primary Care Center in Norristown, PA and deliver much-needed services to families.

Employees from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) volunteered in the first annual Millbourne Community Clean-up Day, a partnership between CHOP’s new Services & Logistics Center (SLC) and the Millbourne Borough.

We are proud to announce that Jeanette Trella, PharmD, BCPPS, Senior Director of the Center for Public Health Readiness and Response at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has been named a Bloomberg Fellow, a unique program and diverse network of change agents.

A new study by researchers at CHOP and Penn has identified an important role for a non-classical MHC molecule that engages with a cryptic viral peptide derived from influenza A virus.

Martha A.Q. Curley, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Ruth M. Colket Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, was recently named a “Living Legend” by the American Academy of Nursing.

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Listen to Dr. Handy as she describes why pneumococcus can be a problem for some adults and find out more about the vaccines, including recent changes to vaccine recommendations.

Find info about pneumococcal vaccine options for adults; see why pneumococcal disease can be severe in adults, and learn about recent updates to vaccine recommendations.