St. Jude Research

Clinical

Find out how research at St. Jude underlies clinical progress in the care and treatment of cancer, blood disorders, neurological disease and more. 

Music therapy program goes digital to reach quarantined patients
Music therapy program goes digital to reach quarantined patients

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Clinical research: Understanding the importance of nursing in precision medicine
Clinical research: Understanding the importance of nursing in precision medicine

Clinical research: Understanding the importance of nursing in precision medicine

 Kerry Hillis Goff

Clinical research and precision medicine are changing health care, and nursing as a profession can play this critical role with patients and families.

Prehistoric discovery shines spotlight on histiocytosis
Prehistoric discovery shines spotlight on histiocytosis

The mission to make a rare disease extinct

 Kim E. Nichols, MD

A newly found fossil may help us learn more about histiocytosis, a rare disorder of the immune system. Read how scientists are collaborating on new therapies.

Cancer predisposition: early conversations set expectations for future findings
Cancer predisposition: early conversations set expectations for future findings

Cancer predisposition: early conversations set expectations for future findings

 Liza-Marie Johnson, MD, MPH, MSB

Understanding more about childhood cancer raises ethical issues related to cancer predisposition not just for current patients, but for generations after.

Teens and twenties: St. Jude aims to improve psychosocial well-being of adolescents and young adults with cancer
Teens and twenties: St. Jude aims to improve psychosocial well-being of adolescents and young adults with cancer

Teens and Twenties: St. Jude aims to improve psychosocial well-being of adolescents and young adults with cancer

 Sarah Daniels

Teens have unique psychosocial needs: Read how clinicians and support staff are meeting those needs for teens and young adults who have cancer.

Sailing uncharted waters: Patient navigator helps patients transition to St. Jude affiliates
Sailing uncharted waters: Patient navigator helps patients transition to St. Jude affiliates

Sailing uncharted waters: Patient navigator helps patients transition to St. Jude affiliates

 Kathy Cox

Patient navigators help ease the transition from the familiar hospital to an unfamiliar hospital close to home.

Ending the HIV epidemic: A national plan to reduce HIV infections
Ending the HIV epidemic: A national plan to reduce HIV infections

Ending the HIV epidemic: A national plan to reduce HIV infections

 Michael Sheffield

Ending the HIV Epidemic is a bold plan to reduce HIV infections by 90 percent nationally. On a local level, St. Jude aims to have no new HIV cases by 2030.