Epilepsy and Teens: Counseling Advice on Managing Epilepsy as an Adolescent
According to the CDC, approximately 0.6% of children aged 0-17 have active epilepsy, so in a school of 1,000 students, this means 6 of them…
Media Type: Podcast
Explore the Cores: Illuminating Discoveries With CHOP’s Flow Cytometry Core
In the second part of our Explore the Cores series, Florin Tuluc, MD, PhD, Director of the Flow Cytometry Core Laboratory at CHOP Research Institute,…
Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease
Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that often causes debilitating pain and life-threatening complications. Many patients with the disease make dozens of ER…
Advocacy Curriculum in Pediatric Residency Education
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) advocacy curriculum has a rich history of teaching pediatric residents how to incorporate being an advocate into their career…
Firearm Safety: A Rehab Clinician’s Perspective
James Alfano, PT, DPT, PCS joins the Rehab Roundtable as a Board Certified Pediatric Clinical Specialist in physical therapy, working in an outpatient sports medicine…
Sickle Cell Gene Therapy
New research has led to the approval of sickle cell gene therapy and CHOP has played a big role in both the research and implementation…
Explore the Cores: CHOP Biorepository Houses Specimens & Hope for Pediatric Breakthroughs
Have you ever wondered how, and where, biospecimen samples go after a patient gives consent for its use in research? The latest guest of our…
An Antiracist Approach in Primary Care
A recent publication in Pediatrics by George Dalembert, MD, MSHP and Aditi Vasan, MD, MSHP helps us learn more about how to use an antiracist…
Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): HIV Prevention for Adolescents
As of 2020, 20% of new HIV diagnoses were among young people aged 13-24 years. Primary care pediatricians can play an important role in the…
Mental Health Is Health: Caring for the Whole Child
The team at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) believes that mental health is just as important as physical health – and they’re working together to…