Pediatric Research

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Resisting Pediatric Research and Missing Chances for Cures


In Colorado, a scientist places a needle in a developing embryo. He removes the cells and melts them to isolate pure DNA. Then he experiments on that DNA. This is the earliest research we can perform on a human. They select a child free of the perils of breast cancer and then implant that child into her mother. After the medical meddling, she becomes pregnant.

A thousand miles away, in rural Mississippi, an HIV positive mother gives birth. This mother couldn’t be more different from the one in Colorado. She’s received none of the benefits of prenatal care, none of the drugs that might possibly spare her newborn from a lifetime of HIV. Desperate, her doctors do something they…

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 Resisting Pediatric Research and Missing Chances for Cures

Is it riskier to give children experimental treatments, or not to?

7 Great Achievements in Pediatric Research

From developing groundbreaking treatments for deadly chronic diseases to saving babies who are born premature, pediatric researchers have increased the ability of children to live full and fulfilling lives that only a few decades before would have been tragically cut short.

Action Medical Research

We are the leading UK charity funding vital research to help defeat the diseases that devastate the lives of sick and disabled babies, children and young people

Society for Pediatric Research

The Pediatric Research Foundation is a support foundation (501(c)3) which has been established by the American Pediatric Society and Society for Pediatric Research to help secure the future of the societies. Through the Foundation, we have established a goal of raising a two million dollar endowment.

Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation

The Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation identifies and invests in leading edge research that demonstrates the best hope for a cure to childhood cancer.

Pediatric Research in Office Settings

Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS), founded in 1986, is the practice-based research network of the AAP. Its mission is to improve the health of children and enhance primary care practice by conducting and fostering national collaborative practice-based research.​

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

St. Jude is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

Child Neurology Foundation

The Child Neurology Foundation is the outreach and philanthropic arm of the Child Neurology Society, providing information, educational opportunities, and advocacy for child neurologists and other medical professionals and for patients, parents, and member groups dealing with an array of neurologic conditions.

Children's Leukemia Research Association

Each year, CLRA's Medical Advisory Committee reviews submitted research proposals from doctors nationwide. Using your dollars from contributions, we fund research grants for doctors who are conducting the most promising research into leukemia, in the hopes of isolating the causes, and finding a cure for this dread disease.

American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine

We are a multidisciplinary scientific society devoted to the study of cerebral palsy and other childhood onset disabilities, to promoting professional education for the treatment and management of these conditions, and to improving the quality of life for people with these disabilities.

Leukemia Research Foundation

The LRF expanded its mission to include blood cancers other than leukemia - we provide research and help those with lymphoma, and myelodysplastic syndromes as well.

Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation

The Foundation's mission is to improve the quality of life for people affected by OI through research to find treatments and a cure, education, awareness, and mutual support.

United Leukodystrophy Foundation

The ULF is committed to the identification, treatment and cure of all leukodystrophies through programs of education, advocacy, research and service.

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