Research Blog
Published on September 19, 2015
Researchers at Children’s
Hospital Los Angeles have received an $8.4 million grant from the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct research to improve HIV care and
prevention in a study focusing on Black, Latino and multiracial gay and
bisexual young men – a group at the... Read More
Published on September 4, 2015
CHLA researcher Elizabeth
Sowell, PhD, was featured on NPR’s Marketplace Morning Report on Thursday,
September 3 for her research study finding an association between socioeconomic
status and brain development. Check out her interview here as well as our own post below from... Read More
Published on August 26, 2015
Cross-section of mouse
gastrocnemius muscle, courtesy of Lily Chao, MD, Children’s Hospital, Los
AngelesImportant for quick leg movements like running and jumping,
the gastrocnemius muscle is connected to the Achilles tendon and spans the back
of the lower leg. Researchers at... Read More
Published on August 25, 2015
Seeing the arm ripped off of one’s favorite SpongeBob
SquarePants plush pillow can be heartbreaking for a child. But rather than
grieve its loss, a young Michael Quintero got out his mother’s sewing kit and
slowly stitched SpongeBob back together. While too young to truly... Read More
Published on August 20, 2015
In a word? Data.Left: The Great
Library of Alexandria, O. Von Corven, 1st Century, Public DomainRight: Big Data Image,
Courtesy of Shutterstock
“The library of Alexandria was a great data
repository,” began Randall
Wetzel, MD, during a presentation at Children’s... Read More
Published on August 17, 2015
Researchers demonstrate better outcomes using immune therapy drug called alemtuzumab in transplant patients with non-malignant genetic diseases of blood cellsComputer modeling of the monoclonal antibody alemtuzumab, which CHLA researchers have shown helps reduce graft rejections... Read More
Published on August 7, 2015
When life gives you
lemons, make some lemonade.Alexandra “Alex” Scott gave new meaning to the saying when,
at the age of four, she began selling lemonade to fund pediatric cancer
research. She had been diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a pediatric cancer of the
sympathetic nervous... Read More
Published on August 5, 2015
Researchers at Children’s
Hospital Los Angeles, led by principal investigator and acting division head
of Neurology
Wendy Mitchell, MD, have been at the forefront of studying treatment and
outcome Opsoclonus-Myoclonus
Syndrome or OMS (also known as the “dancing eyes” syndrome or... Read More
Published on August 3, 2015
How should we approach and study Johanson-Blizzard Syndrome?Though incredibly rare, Johanson-Blizzard Syndrome (JBS) requires intervention from multiple medical fields. Complications this syndrome presents in many areas of the body can necessitate treatment over the course of... Read More
Published on July 29, 2015
Difference aids in childbearing, but likely imparts a greater susceptibility for scoliosis and osteoporosis in females Looking at measurements of the vertebrae – the series of small
bones that make up the spinal column – in newborn children, investigators at
Children’s... Read More
Published on July 27, 2015
According to a recent article in The
New York Times, a study published in the journal Circulation
found that consumption of sugary drinks results in some 184,000 deaths
worldwide each year. The study’s researchers further estimate that sweetened
drinks cause 133,000 deaths from... Read More
Published on July 24, 2015
Researchers in the Division of Hematology, Oncology and
Blood & Marrow Transplantation at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles have
shown greatly improved outcomes in using stem cell transplantation to treat
patients with a serious but very rare form of chronic blood cancer... Read More
Published on July 22, 2015
Johanna Olson, MD, and her colleagues at Children’s Hospital
Los Angeles, provide care for the largest number of transyouth in the U.S. and
have enrolled 101 patients in a study to determine the safety and efficacy of
treatment that helps patients bring their bodies into closer... Read More
Published on July 20, 2015
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressively lethal lung disease, with few effective treatment options. Researchers at The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles have found that a biomarker commonly associated with cell injury called Annexin V may... Read More
Published on July 17, 2015
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_wM5IS1y6KGekhZQ3NSYmxvZFE/edit?pli=1When colitis flares, there is an inflammatory process that kills both bacteria and colon cells mistakenly identified as pathogenic. The body mounts a counterforce, seeking to repair the intestinal lining.... Read More
Published on July 15, 2015
Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the
University of Southern California found that children with autism spectrum
disorder, as well as typically developing children, experience less stress in a
sensory-adapted environment than in a regular dental clinic.A trip to... Read More
Published on July 13, 2015
This video is a fly-through of the colon. Much of the lining has been destroyed by a severe bout of colitis. Each frame depicts a progressively deeper layer of the colon with stem cells (shown in red) working to repair the organ.Image: mouse colonVideo credit: Cambrian Liu, PhD... Read More
Published on July 10, 2015
Retinoblastoma (or RB) is a childhood retinal tumor usually affecting children 1 to 2 years of age. Although rare, it is the most common malignant tumor of the eye in children.A common sign of this cancer is a white glow or glint in the pupil of one or both eyes. Parents may... Read More
Published on July 8, 2015
Two minutes, Frank Ing, MD, tells a visitor, with all the best intentions. He flashes a pair of fingers as reinforcement. “Two minutes.”Then he’s off on what he might call a mission of eminence, seeing Children’s Hospital Los Angeles through the final moments of a year-long... Read More
