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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles researchers develop app to predict if children with acute liver failure will need an urgent liver transplant or can recover on their own.

Study finds that T-cells expressing PD-1 may help predict recovery in children with acute liver failure.

CHLA-led study shows reducing disparities in assigning livers for transplant improved outcomes for patients with pediatric acute liver failure.

A CHLA study finds that racial and socioeconomic disparities contribute to delayed care and treatment for babies with craniosynostosis.

A CHLA study finds that children with HMO insurance face an average delay of nearly two months to receive authorization for gait analysis.

CHLA study finds that youth from lower-income families reported better mental health during the pandemic than adolescents from wealthier families

A statistical analysis of the largest study cohort to date sheds light on improvements—and gaps—in post-relapse treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles dedicates annual research symposium events to childhood obesity as a driver of chronic lifetime health issues including diabetes, heart disease and liver disease.

Jacqueline Szmuszkovicz, MD, described the overlapping clinical features of post-COVID syndrome MIS-C, and another rare illness, Kawasaki disease