Driving

This week, AACR names CHOP physician-scientists as grant recipients, and CIRP researchers publish new findings on driving and mood disorders.

This week’s In the News highlights studies about autism and driving, WAGR Syndrome, cleft palate and lip, and invasive candidiasis.

This week’s news round-up highlights the CCMT’s state-of-the-art Clinical Manufacturing Facility

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.

CHOP Hosts Yearly Alex's

Today on The Huffington Post, CHOP injury prevention expert Flaura K. Winston, MD, PhD, writes about how distracted driving — like texting — can rob drivers of an all-important “time cushion” to avoid crashes. “Driving experts know it takes only three seconds of attentive driving to turn ‘It happened so fast; there was nothing I could do’ into ‘I saw it coming,’” Dr. Winston notes.

There is convincing evidence that individuals‚ including teens‚ with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at heightened risk for unsafe driving behaviors. Despite a "perfect storm" of inexperience, adolescence, and ADHD that increases crash risk, only emerging research about potential interventions exists for these teens with ADHD.