2020 Archive

A toolkit for guiding your family through uncertainty
A toolkit for guiding your family through uncertainty
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.

Collaborating on SARS-CoV-2 and pediatric cancer
Collaborating on SARS-CoV-2 and pediatric cancer
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.

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

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

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

Mary Powers

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

Legendary flu hunter offers tips to stay healthy during a pandemic
Legendary flu hunter offers tips to stay healthy during a pandemic
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.

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

A neuroscientist finds a niche at a cancer research hospital
A neuroscientist finds a niche at a cancer research hospital
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.

Working with parents to better understand how hope and realism coexist
Working with parents to better understand how hope and realism coexist
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.

Researchers take the fight to drug resistance up an octave
Researchers take the fight to drug resistance up an octave
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.

Learning more about T cells through studying behavior in Type 1 diabetes
Learning more about T cells through studying behavior in Type 1 diabetes
Research

Learning more about T cells through studying behavior in Type 1 diabetes

Ben Youngblood, PhD

Learning more about how the body attacks itself in Type 1 diabetes offers insights into how to harness the power of T cells to treat cancer.