Make the Diagnosis: Fall 2023
Dec 5, 2023
Can you solve this medical mystery? Review the baby’s presentation and make the diagnosis.
The multidisciplinary team at the Technology Dependence Center includes physicians, advanced practice nurses, nutritionists and social workers who can help coordinate equipment and home nursing needs and communicate frequently with your primary physician and other consulting doctors.
Dec 5, 2023
Can you solve this medical mystery? Review the baby’s presentation and make the diagnosis.
Dec 5, 2023
Stay up to date on the latest research and staff news from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Dec 5, 2023
Pediatric Reflections: Is Your Nearest ED Prepared to Treat Children?
Dec 5, 2023
A child’s ability to walk improved because of a partnership between CHOP’s Advanced Tone Management Clinic and Neurosurgery.
Dec 5, 2023
Were episodes of a baby suddenly lifting her arms above her head and crying out benign neonatal movements or seizures? How to make the diagnosis.
Dec 8, 2023
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved CASGEVY™ (exagamglogene autotemcel) and LYFGENIA™ (lovotibeglogene autotemcel), the first two gene therapies for the treatment of sickle cell disease in patients 12 years and older with recurrent vaso-occlusive crises (VOCs).
Dec 7, 2023
Find out about Mrs. Carter’s impact on vaccines in the U.S. Check out a study on influenza disease and vaccine in kids. And find out about the Polio Network, a national and international resource for individuals and families affected by polio.
Dec 7, 2023
Find out about different viruses that cause symptoms similar to influenza and what distinguishes these “common colds” from “the flu.”
Dec 7, 2023
Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is a disease characterized by the growth of noncancerous tumors around the vocal cords caused by HPV infection. Find out more about RRP and the work of the Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis Foundation.
Nov 27, 2023
In 2016, our 8-year-old son Justin was airlifted to CHOP for emergency brain surgery. It hit us out of nowhere. When his sister and brother visited, Child Life came in with things like Legos and Play-Doh to distract them from his scary head wrap and get them to just play together. It took the fear out of the room.