New cases of type 2 diabetes, when the body can’t use or make enough insulin, soared in kids during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn the signs and how CHOP can help!

The importance of intervening early is highlighted by the novel techniques available to prevent or delay hip dislocation in patients with cerebral palsy.

Meet three new division chiefs and more news and updates from CHOP.

Meet Kathleen J. Maguire, MD, an attending pediatric orthopaedic surgeon in the Division of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine and Performance Center at CHOP.

CHOP researchers have found that Enterococcus – an antibiotic-resistant, opportunistic pathogen – works together with C. difficile, reshaping and enhancing the metabolic environment in the gut so that C. difficile can thrive.

CHOP researchers found that a series of “liquid biopsies” could less invasively and more accurately identify tumor changes in patients with high-risk neuroblastoma.

Study found the impact was most significant on low-income adolescents, but the effect was also seen across incomes, highlighting financial stress as a youth mental health risk factor—

Meet Eric Chien-Wei Liao, MD, PhD, founding Director of the Center for Craniofacial Innovation at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) found disparities in the completion of follow-up concussion care which will help inform future research at CHOP funded by a CDC grant that specifically aims to address such disparities.

Members of the Cardiac Center’s Family Advisory Council share their main takeaways after attending Cardiology 2022.