Rounding out a week of soaring temperatures and some exciting research at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, we bring you this week's headline highlights, including last Friday's fun-filled Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation kickoff event, a series of CHOP experts featured in mainstream media articles, breakthroughs in helping to reduce children's pain in the emergency department, and more.
This week in the news, summertime lemonade stands and a trip to Disney World have more in common than just the whimsy of childhood: They are just a few of the places where you'll find members of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia community sharing knowledge to improve pediatric research and treatments. Read on to see the different ways we made
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.
As part of its mission to find "a cure for all children with cancer," Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation recently announced more than $7 million in new grants to researchers around the country, including four at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Children's Hospital investigators Garrett Brodeur, MD, Michael Hogarty, MD, Richard Aplenc, MD, and Robert Schnepp, MD, PhD, all received grants from the organization, for a total of $800,000 in cancer research funding.
