October 2013

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has announced that its Formulary — the list of medications approved for use — will no longer include most dietary supplements.

Two recent state awards to Children’s Hospital researchers show the incredible breadth of research being conducted at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute every day.

Co-director of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s PolicyLab David Rubin, MD, MSCE, was recently appointed to a government commission tasked with working to end child abuse and neglect-related deaths. Dr.

A recent grant from the Department of Defense (DoD) to The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia will fund a new study of advanced transplantation techniques.

Phyllis A. Dennery, MD, FAAP, an internationally prominent neonatologist and researcher at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, has been elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM).

An international collaboration will delve into why patients with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome have an elevated risk of schizophrenia and other psychiatric illnesses.

Biomedical researchers often confront large quantities of information that may be amassed in many forms: vital signs, blood cell counts, lengthy DNA sequences, bar graphs, MRIs, patient demographics, and so much more. How do researchers assemble, access and analyze all that data without having to become specialized database technicians themselves?

In an example of CHOP Research’s commitment to educating the next generation of scientists, a recent workshop held at the Institute introduced young investigators to the principles of translational research.