With a new grant from the National Institutes of Health, researchers are investigating racial disparities in children with co-occurring sleep disorders.
Welcome back to our regular roundup of research news from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia! Research at CHOP helps children wherever they are, whether in a primary care doctor's office, in the hospital, in the community, or at home. This week's stories cover all the bases.
When children are in the hospital, their mental health status can affect their physical recovery -
Whether children are under the steady hand of surgeon and anesthesiologist, or medical and research trainees are under the guidance of an experienced mentor, knowledge makes all the difference. This much is clear from the top stories in our weekly roundup of research news at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania recently published a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that shows differences in how breast cancer patients present at diagnosis are more responsible for racial disparities in 5-year survival than treatment disparities. Jeffrey H. Silber, MD, PhD, professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology and Critical Care
