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This first-of-its-kind report highlights how research is transforming outcomes for children and adolescents with cancer.

AACR Releases Inaugural Pediatric Cancer Progress Report

American Association for Cancer Research

More than 30 new drugs have been approved for pediatric cancer in the past 10 years, but progress has not benefited all patients

The study represents a major step forward in the field of genetic testing and personalized medicine.

Texas Children’s Researchers Create Groundbreaking Tool to Improve Accuracy of Genetic Testing

Today's Clinical Lab

The work applies a method called local ancestry inference (LAI), which provides more accurate insights into genetic differences

The journal publication was simultaneously highlighted at the annual Family Heart Foundation Global Summit in Atlanta, in which the findings were shared with medical experts, policy makers, and industry leaders from around the world.

Experts Recommend Testing Children for Underdiagnosed Genetic Heart Condition

Family Heart Foundation

Recommendations by multidisciplinary panel published in the Journal of Pediatrics leverage evidence-based approaches to accelerate diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolemia

A single error in the genetic code of the ACTA2 gene, which encodes the smooth muscle actin protein, is the most common cause of MSMDS.

Customized Gene-Editing Technology Shows Potential to Treat Lethal Pediatric Disease

Mass General Brigham

In preclinical models, the CRISPR-Cas9 gene therapy precisely repaired the genetic error that causes a rare vascular disease

Vaccination remains the best prevention against life-threatening complications like influenza-associated acute necrotizing encephalopathy.

Rapid Treatment Improves Outcomes in Children with Rare Flu Brain Complication

Today's Clinical Lab

Study highlights the critical need for early intensive care in influenza-associated acute necrotizing encephalopathy, a severe brain swelling condition

Researchers have long known that standard urine drug screening can sometimes trigger false positives, or erroneous results that indicate the presence of a drug when there isn’t one.

Standard Drug Screening Fails to Identify Some Children Who Have Been Exposed to Substances in Unsafe Home Environments

Association for Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine

The study highlights an adjustment that clinical labs can make to improve the accuracy of results

The younger patients, especially those between the ages of five and eight, responded best to the treatment.

Gene Therapy Restored Hearing in Deaf Patients

Karolinska Institutet

New gene therapy well-tolerated and improves hearing in all 10 patients with congenital deafness or severe hearing impairment

The technology has the potential to further our understanding of other childhood diseases, according to a new study.

New Software Tool Could Help Better Understand Childhood Cancer

Murdoch Children's Research Institute

New cutting-edge software can help uncover how the most common heart tumor in children forms and changes

While gliomas are the major cause of cancer-related death in adolescents and young adults, there are distinct differences between gliomas that occur in children versus older adults, and treatment can vary depending on someone’s age at diagnosis.

Molecular Testing Unveils New Insights into Adolescent and Young Adult Brain Cancer

The Hospital for Sick Children

Specialized molecular testing helps shape potential treatments for patients with glioma

With an eye toward improving care, researchers have developed new automated lab procedures for detecting opioids in tiny amounts of blood.

New Opioid Testing Techniques Could Lead to Better Therapies

Brown University

New diagnostic tools for detecting opioids in adults and infants could help health workers more effectively treat opioid-related conditions