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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Receives Top Marks for LGBTQ-Inclusive Policies and Practices for Third Consecutive Year

Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) has been awarded the LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leader designation from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation for the third straight year, an indicator of the organization’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. The Human Rights...

Investigator at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Awarded $3.4M to Study Rotavirus Vaccine

Worldwide disparities in vaccine effectiveness can be life-threatening for children Los Angeles (September 21, 2020) — Rotavirus (RV) is an extremely contagious viral infection and the most common cause of diarrhea in infants and children worldwide. The World Health...

How Racial Discrimination Impacts Child Health

Study finds that mental and behavioral issues may be the first effects to surface in children. Los Angeles (October 8, 2020) — Many studies have shown that racial discrimination is harmful to children’s health. But what exactly is that link between racism and health in...

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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is U.S. site for $7M study of household transmission of COVID-19

The NIH-funded study extends a larger investigation into influenza. Los Angeles (September 14, 2020) — One of the mysteries about severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19, is how it is spread within households, including why...

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