February 2015

A team of investigators from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s PolicyLab recently received nearly $600,000 from the William T. Grant Foundation to lead an innovative study examining antipsychotic prescribing practices.

While influenza vaccination is important for all children, it is critical that pediatric patients with cancer get a flu shot because their weakened immune systems leave them especially vulnerable to severe infections.

Saying precision medicine — in which patients receive highly personalized treatments — offers “one of the greatest opportunities for new medical breakthroughs that we have ever seen,” President Obama recently announced the launch of the Precisio

What causes preterm birth and how to prevent it remains a perplexing riddle in medical science. One in nine babies in the U.S. is born prematurely, according to the March of Dimes, and this rate has barely budged despite years of investigation.

Many of us take for granted our ability to control our bodies and muscles. We type on keyboards and stretch at our desks without much thought.

According to a team of radiologists and psychologists led by a CHOP expert, children born with a DNA abnormality on chromosome 16 already linked to neurodevelopmental problems show measurable delays in processing sound and language.

A new report from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s PolicyLab and the advocacy organization First Focus found poverty, food insecurity, and housing instability are more prevalent than they were before the Great Recession.

ECRI Institute selected an innovative study conducted by patient safety researchers at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia who aimed to objectively measure alarm fatigue as a finalist for its

The Philadelphia Pediatric Medical Device Consortium (PPDC) announced that it will provide seed grants of $25,000 each to three companies to transform their innovative ideas into commercial devices that benefit young patients.