Clinical Futures at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is ushering in the fall with a call for applications to its Pilot Grant Program. The program aims to support CHOP investigators who are interested in conducting studies designed to gather evidence about novel strategies that could shift current research or a clinical practice paradigm.
Research at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia reaches all corners of the world. This week's In the News takes us on the road with new teen driving safety research findings. Next, we visit school cafeterias for National School Lunch Week. And then we're off to Dubai for a symposium on special education. Keep going to read more research news on
The Pennsylvania Pediatric Medical Device Consortium (PPDC) provides know-how and seed funding to help innovators translate concepts into commercial medical devices for use in children. In the PPDC’s latest round of awards, two companies out of 27 applicants received grants of $50,000 each.
Kidney specialists across the country agree that the incidence of kidney stones is rising among children, but clinicians are unsettled on which imaging technology to choose first when diagnosing the condition, despite current guidelines that recommend ultrasound as the initial imaging study.
A new, safe, state-of-the-art technique called HR-pQCT (high resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography) can be used to measure bone health in children and adults.
