2020 Archive

Clinical

Music therapy program goes digital to reach quarantined patients

Gary Bridgman

Read how this music therapist continues to help pediatric cancer patients with music therapy sessions even during quarantine.

Clinical

A toolkit for guiding your family through uncertainty

Niki Jurbergs, PhD

Read how these St. Jude psychologists recommended ways for families to get through the uncertainty of COVID-19.

Research

Collaborating on SARS-CoV-2 and pediatric cancer

Miguela Caniza, MD, MPH

This collaboration on infection prevention pivoted early in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and did this global pediatric cancer community.

Clinical

Frontline clinicians: How to navigate difficult conversations with your children about COVID-19

Kristin Canavera, PhD

It’s difficult enough as a frontline clinician to care for patients during a pandemic. But what about your children? Here’s how to have that conversation.

Research

A vaccine to prevent ear infections? Here’s the latest.

Mary Powers

Almost everyone gets ear infections. This vaccine may change that.

Investigator Insights

Legendary flu hunter offers tips to stay healthy during a pandemic

Mary Powers

This researcher's recommendations on coronavirus are based on 65 years of infectious diseases and viral research.

Research

A global resource to learn more about pediatric cancer patients and COVID-19

Nickhill Bhakta, MD, MPH

Little is known about childhood cancer patients who are diagnosed with COVID-19, but a new registry is the first step to finding out.

Investigator Insights

A neuroscientist finds a niche at St. Jude

Mary Powers

A neuroscientist studying the brain’s fight-or-flight response is learning more about developing brains and this about pediatric brain tumors.

Clinical

Working with parents to better understand how hope and realism coexist

Erica Kaye, MD, MPH

Read how a new model of hope and realism are seen as life-affirming instead of death-denying, strengthening the doctor-patient family relationship.

Research

Researchers take the fight to drug resistance up an octave

Robert J. Autry and William E. Evans, PharmD

Drug resistance is a major reason for treatment failure in children with leukemia, but recent research may have an answer.