Being the parent or sibling of a child with a life-threatening condition can take a mental and physical toll on other members of the family. A new study from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is one of the first ...
Dec 20, 2021
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A collaborative study from the Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP) and the Center for Autism Research (CAR) at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) found that only 8% of pediatric healthcare and behavioral ...
Dec 16, 2021
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A study led by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has implicated several genes involved in a variety of bodily functions associated with the hypothalamus, a notoriously difficult-to-study region of ...
Nov 19, 2021
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A novel gene therapy for hemophilia A led to sustained expression of the clotting factor those patients lack, resulting in a reduction—or in some cases complete elimination—of painful and potentially life-threatening ...
Nov 17, 2021
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Patients with a rare immunodeficiency disorder who are treated with lifelong immunoglobulin replacement therapy (IRT) have a lower risk of premature death than patients treated with a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT), ...
Nov 15, 2021
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In a breakthrough for the treatment of aggressive solid cancers, researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a novel cancer therapy that targets proteins inside cancer cells that are essential ...
Nov 3, 2021
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Healthy full-term infants born during the COVID-19 pandemic had substantially shorter hospital stays than those born before the pandemic, with no change in hospital readmissions after discharge, according to a new study led ...
Oct 12, 2021
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A research team led by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has analyzed the birth volume and geographic distribution of obstetric hospitals across the United States and found that a plurality of those hospitals delivers ...
Oct 8, 2021
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Stringent lockdown measures imposed in the spring of 2020 led to a dramatic drop in vaccinations among both children and adults, according to a new study led by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). The study, which ...
Oct 7, 2021
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Aplastic anemia (AA) is a life-threatening bone marrow disorder caused by the autoimmune destruction of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs). Currently, the condition is a diagnosis of exclusion, as there are no ...
Sep 20, 2021
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