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Nurses Continue to Make Waves in a New Era of Health Care
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Clínica Alemana de Santiago in Chile celebrated an outstanding 22 years of institutional relationship and professional development.
Safely Avoiding Lumbar Puncture in the Evaluation of Infants with Fever
By identifying babies at low risk of serious bacterial infection, a quality improvement team at CHOP safely reduced the use of lumbar puncture in infants being evaluated for fever.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s 22nd Annual Parkway Run & Walk presented by Citadel Credit Union Raises More than $1.95 Million to Bolster Pediatric Cancer Research and Care
On a September Sunday on the Ben Franklin Parkway, nearly 8,000 supports – comprising of more than 275 teams – participated in CHOP Cancer Center’s largest fundraiser, the Parkway Run & Walk, presented by Citadel Credit Union.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine Receives Up to $10 Million ARPA-H Award to Create Tool for Sharing Data on Cancer and Rare Diseases
This award will help research, validate and implement a new model for sharing and integrating data at a national level.
CHOP Named 2024 Leading Disability Employer by the National Organization on Disability
We are honored to announce that CHOP has been given the NOD Leading Disability Employer Seal for 2024 by the National Organization on Disability (NOD) for the fourth time.
$14M NIH grant funds gene-editing research for rare metabolic diseases at Penn and CHOP
Researchers aim to develop personalized therapies for urea cycle disorders and other genetic conditions using advanced CRISPR technology.
Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Create mRNA Vaccine to Prevent and Treat C. difficile
The vaccine is the first mRNA vaccine against C. difficile and would be the first vaccine in general to successfully ward off the bacterial infection.
Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Highlight Role of Alternative Splicing in Chemotherapy Resistance
Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have elucidated the significant role that alternative splicing – a process whereby a single gene produces multiple proteins by rearranging its messenger RNA segments in different combinations – plays in resistance to chemotherapy in relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL). The study published today in the journal Cancer Research.
Brighten up the season
This year, many children will spend the holidays in the hospital. Brighten the season for them and their families by creating a virtual toy drive—a fun and easy way to raise funds to buy gifts for kids in CHOP this holiday season.
CHOP, Penn Researchers Show Strong Connection Between Handheld Cellphone Use and Risky Behavior Among Teen Drivers
Cell phone use was recorded in more than one-third of trips taken by teens in the study sample