2019 Archive

Clinical

Bereaved parent mentors use their past to assist patients, parents and clinical team

Chris Pennington

Read how surviving parents are working with St. Jude to help guide health care and quality of life for future St. Jude patients.

Clinical

Sleep is the third pillar of health — stop overlooking its importance

Valerie Crabtree, PhD

Read how parents and officials are neglecting one of the most important aspects of teenage health – and it happens almost every day.

Clinical

Obesity: the side effect of therapy we don’t consider

Emily Browne, DNP

Cancer drugs can make pediatric cancer patients gain weight. Read how researchers found the key to helping ensure children-survivors live healthier lives.

Outreach

HPV vaccination begins with family health care providers

Melissa Hudson, MD

HPV cancer prevention begins with you.

Research

Medulloblastoma therapy may get better thanks to ‘key’ technology

Martine F. Roussel, PhD

In testing a new treatment for a deadly brain tumor, read what these researchers did to figure out how to make exact duplicates of the cancer.

Investigator Insights

‘There’s no bad weather, only bad clothes’

Keith Crabtree, PhD

It wasn’t that big of a culture shock to come from Sweden to Memphis, and then she experienced the heat and humidity and reconsidered everything.

Research

Innate immunity: the body’s first line of defense against a dangerous fungus

Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, PhD

Innate immunity is your body’s first line of defense. What happens when it’s weakened? Researchers are using this common fungus to find out how to help.

Research

Medulloblastoma and microirradiation: Tiny treatments for the most common malignant pediatric brain tumor

Martine F. Roussel, PhD

Medulloblastoma may soon be treated by a microirradiator - a machine the size of two refrigerators that beams radiation down to half the width of a credit card.

Outreach

A global alliance to take the care of St. Jude to the world

Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, MD

Danny Thomas’ believed no child should die in the dawn of life – that means no child, anywhere in the world.

Research

Translational research: Finding the connection between what we do and who we help

Himy Muniz-Talavera, PhD

It's a rare day you get to see translational research benefit others—I've spoken to cancer patients and seen first-hand how research saves children's lives.