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. 

Bereaved parent mentors help fellow St. Jude parents and also guide the clinical teams to help provide the best quality of life for patients
Bereaved parent mentors help fellow St. Jude parents and also guide the clinical teams to help provide the best quality of life for patients

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.

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

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.

Childhood obesity: the side effect of therapy we don’t consider
Childhood obesity: the side effect of therapy we don’t consider

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.

Managing pain without enabling opioid addiction
Managing pain without enabling opioid addiction

Managing pain without enabling opioid addiction

 Doralina Anghelescu, MD

How do physicians manage their patients’ pain in the context of the current opioid crises? Read how this physician helped a patient.

Chronic Pain in Survivors of Childhood Cancer
Chronic Pain in Survivors of Childhood Cancer

Chronic pain in survivors: How we can better understand an under-studied problem

 Nicole Alberts, PhD

A new model explains key factors in chronic pain development, and future pain research designed to answer overlooked questions

You can help prevent suicide
You can help prevent suicide

You can help prevent suicide

 Jennifer Harman, PhD

Suicidal thoughts or actions are not the end – don’t believe these myths associated with suicide.

Precision medicine has a role in the cures of the future
Precision medicine has a role in the cures of the future

Precision medicine has a role in the cures of the future

 Charles Mullighan, MBBS (Hons), MSc, MD

Is precision medicine the next frontier of discovery for cancer cures? This scientist says, for some patients, it may be.

Postural balance is an issue with pediatric leukemia survivors
Postural balance is an issue with pediatric leukemia survivors

Postural balance is an issue with pediatric leukemia survivors

 Mitra Varedi

Think balance is simply staying upright? It’s much more complicated than that, especially if you’re a survivor.

Pediatric otolaryngology: Taking care of ears, noses and throats
Pediatric otolaryngology: Taking care of ears, noses and throats

Pediatric otolaryngology: Taking care of ears, noses and throats

 Elizabeth Jane Walker

Pediatric cancers cause many problems above the neck. Pediatric otolaryngology seeks to repair cancer’s damage to children’s ears, noses and throats.

For some childhood cancer survivors, new hardships await
For some childhood cancer survivors, new hardships await

For some childhood cancer survivors, new hardships await

 I-Chan Huang, PhD

Overcoming childhood cancer is only the beginning of the journey – a whole new set of problems await.