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Welcome to Cornerstone!
Welcome to Cornerstone, the new blog of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute. We’re really excited to be launching this blog, where we’ll regularly be sharing news, interviews...
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A Year in Review
The holiday season is once again upon us! While it’s a time for family and friends to gather, indulge in traditions, and celebrate this season of giving, it’s also hard to believe another year has...
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! Here’s to ringing in the new year! We are wishing you and yours a 2013 filled with happiness, good health and prosperity! We have a lot of exciting things to share with you in the new...
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Groundbreaking Leukemia Research Featured at ASH Annual Meeting
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s groundbreaking leukemia research was on display at the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting. Held in New Orleans, the ASH Annual Meeting...
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Amino Acids Relieve Sleep Problems Following Traumatic Brain Injury
Every year in the U.S., an estimated 2 million people suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI), accounting for a major cause of disability across all age groups. Although 75 percent of reported TBI cases...
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Happy New Year!
2013 was a big year for The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute, with CHOP being named the best children’s hospital in the country by U.S. News & World Report, and with studies...
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Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Grant Supports CHOP Childhood Cancer...
One in every 691 babies in the U.S. is born with Down syndrome, according to the National Down Syndrome Society, and have a predisposition for a certain kind of cancer. A Children’s Hospital...
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Investigators Explore Safety of Rotavirus Vaccine in NICU
Clinicians in neonatal intensive care units across the country are uncertain about when to administer rotavirus vaccination to infants whose medical conditions require prolonged hospital stays, so...
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Office Visits May Be Too Short to Detect Autism Risk
Identifying autism spectrum disorder (ASD) risk early is imperative, because the earlier autism is detected the earlier clinicians will be able to intervene. In general, the younger the patient, the...
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Babies’ BMI May Predict Childhood Obesity
A new study from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia shows body mass index (BMI) during infancy may help to predict if a child will be obese by age four. In work focused on the infant BMI-childhood...
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Precision Medicine Using Genomic Data Challenging in Pediatric Cancer
Advances in genomic sequencing hold enormous opportunities for more precise diagnosis of pediatric cancer and then targeting therapies toward the genetic alterations that are driving individuals’...
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Expanding Clinical Teams’ Communication Skills When Sharing Care Plans
It can be incredibly distressing for a family dealing with a serious or life-threatening illness to receive mixed messages from the clinical team about their child’s prognosis or care plan. The roots...
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eMERGE Network Looks at How to Provide DNA Test Results, Improve Care
Sometimes the tiniest shift inherited in your DNA code can have tremendous ripple effects on your health and treatment choices. A new $3.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s...
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Flu Infection Reveals Many Paths to Immune Response
We’re officially into autumn, which means flu season is just around the corner. Having a vaccine each year helps stave off the flu, but much is still to be learned about the virus. Laurence C....
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From all of us here at CHOP Research, we wish you a bright and happy 2016!
In the New Year on Cornerstone, be on the lookout for guest blogs, new blog formats, more images and infographics, and multimedia. We’ll also be asking in a reader survey for your thoughts on how...
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