Division of General Pediatrics News & Announcements

The landmark study paves the way for researchers to customize the technology and treat other individual patients with genetic diseases caused by ultra-rare “N-of-1” variants.

Researchers are creating a platform to help fast-track personalized gene-editing therapies for patients with urea cycle disorders.

Congratulations to five CHOP physicians on their election to the American Pediatric Society. This and more in this edition of In The News.

CHOP’s Global Health Center is leading the charge to improve the health and well-being of children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries.

The questionnaire has been successfully adapted across pediatric primary care and increased discussion about drug use and sexual health.

Dr. Christopher Forrest works to establish a National Pediatric LHS Embedded Scientist Training and Research Center.

Novel pediatric community health worker intervention aims to address social needs of hospitalized children with medically complex conditions.

A new pediatric Patient Safety Learning Laboratory looks for new ways to navigate clinician-to-clinician communication.

Dr. Furth joins a legacy of influential scientific professionals who are shaping health research, practice, and policy.

NAM Recognizes Christopher Forrest, MD, PhD, for advancing large-scale pediatric research networks.

CHOP researchers have identified an ionizable LNP that can deliver mRNA base editing tools to the brain to mitigate CNS disease in perinatal mouse models.

Research from the Minds Matter Concussion Program at CHOP influenced new, international guidelines for the diagnosis, management, and prevention of concussion in sport.

Take a multimedia look at our scientific research aimed at addressing gun violence and prevention. This is part one of two.

In this week’s news roundup, CHOP’s Department of Pediatrics ranked No 1. in U.S. News & World Report’s ‘Best Pediatrics Programs’ for medical schools.

Denise Adams, MD, participated in an FDA-hosted panel discussion about improving young medical professionals’ understanding of rare diseases.

Decades-long research from CHOP informed the implementation of the Virtual Driving Assessment program in CHOP’s Care Network.

The Ninth Annual CRC RE@CH Awards celebrated all clinical research staff at CHOP for their contributions to the research community with a spotlight on two honorees.

CHOP researchers examine specific health effects faced by parents and siblings of very sick children and adolescents.

CHOP researchers found depression and suicidality increased among adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic.

CHOP researchers identify potential vaccine approach against nontypeable Haemophilus Influenzae (NTHi) — the most common cause of bacterial respiratory tract infection.

Researchers focused on two proteins that help the bacteria adhere to respiratory cells and are conserved across strains of the organism.

Dorene Balmer, PhD, director of research on pediatric education at CHOP, discusses qualitative research for medical education.

Learn about the research projects supported by Clinical Futures/PolicyLab Pilot Grants and how they seek to drive change in policy and practice.

This week’s roundup features projections of the spread of COVID-19 and novel findings on gene therapy to treat the whole brain. This and more In The News.

Study shows deep decline in number of pediatric patients visiting the emergency department for asthma treatment during first month of COVID-19 pandemic. This and more In the News.

Study by CHOP researchers has implications for those seeking to understand the drivers of asthma exacerbations.

A physician specializing in immigrant health discusses the value of posttraumatic stress disorder treatment for resettled refugee adults.

This week’s roundup features new findings on early microbiome development, genetic variations in IBD, quality of life in ASD, and more.

Parents and researchers partner to ensure the Pediatric Research Consortium pursues studies that are meaningful and on target to improve pediatric care.

When it comes to bedside alarms for conditions like low oxygen saturation, tachycardia, or cardiac arrhythmias, four main factors contribute to faster nurse response times.

If you're eager to learn and a creator of change - which pretty much covers everyone here at the Research Institute - then you'll want to know about what's happening at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting (PAS), the largest international meeting…

If you ever have visited a hospitalized patient, you probably heard a symphony of blips, chirps, and buzzes emanating from a variety of patient monitors.

A cost-benefit analysis performed by a research team at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia describes one winning combination that can improve safety of hospitalized children, while at the same time achieving financial savings.

Chén Kenyon, MD wanted to find out if asthma patients treated safely and effectively with CAA in the non-ICU, inpatient setting, which may free up limited ICU beds for other high acuity patients and offer significant cost-savings.

A team of clinician-researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has created and validated the first set of standardized vital sign curves for heart rates and respiratory rates in hospitalized children.