CHOP pediatrician offers tips about how best to protect your teens and youth from accidental or intentional injury due to firearms in the home.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is pleased to announce that Lisa R. Young, MD, Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, received the 2021 Norman J. Siegel Outstanding Science Award for her considerable contributions to pediatric science. The award was presented on May 3, 2021 during the PAS Presidential Plenary at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2021 Virtual Meeting.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is pleased to announce that Susan Furth, MD, PhD, Chief of the Division of Nephrology, has received The Society for Pediatric Research (SPR) annual Maureen Andrew Mentor Award, which recognizes pediatricians with outstanding records of mentor leadership. The award was presented to Dr. Furth on May 4, 2021 during the SPR Plenary Session at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2021 Virtual Meeting.

Nearly 400 people joined the 2021 Walk for Hope, a week-long virtual event to raise funds to support inflammatory bowel disease research and care at CHOP.

When applying new terminology to existing data through computational methods, researchers increased the number of descriptive terms five-fold, improving diagnostic capabilities.

Breaking Through with Madeline Bell’s “Pioneered at CHOP” series highlights stories about some of CHOP’s amazing breakthroughs, told by the people who made them.

Why the COVID-19 vaccine is safe and why children and teenagers need it now.

CHOP researchers discovered a new condition, which they named PU.MA, and treated a patient with a bone marrow donation from the patient’s older brother.

Many toddlers on the boundary of a diagnosis may fall in or out of an autism classification, suggesting more individualized evaluations are needed.

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