A recent review in Pediatric Cardiology provides insights into CHOP’s FORWARD program, a multidisciplinary model of care for patients with a Fontan circulation.

The algorithm could lead to better clinical trials and more targeted treatment.

Dr. Marueen Josephson was featured on 6abc to discuss her team’s participation in CHOP’s 31-Day Challenge and raising funds for the patients they care for.

CHOP researchers have identified genes involved in skull development and created an “atlas” that describes how cell types participate in that process.

Juvenile fibromyalgia (FM) syndrome is a painful, debilitating type of amplified musculoskeletal pain syndrome that results in nearly total body pain, fatigue, and dizziness, among several other possible symptoms. 

TD is a 25-month-old female who presented to clinic with a complaint of bowed legs. Mom reports that throughout infancy, both legs were bowed, but the right one straightened out while the left appears to have worsened. 

We all learned some simple patterns for diseases of the immune system when we were in training: immunodeficiency is “too little immune system,” autoimmunity is “too much immune system,” atopy is a “allergic immune system,” and lymphoproliferation is “a rapidly expanding immune system.”

Ava, a 21-month-old female, presented to her primary care provider’s office with 4 days of fever and a macular rash that started yesterday. 

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia awarded its Gold Medal to Katherine High, MD, a gene therapy pioneer and one of the lead developers of the first in vivo gene therapy approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 

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