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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles researchers develop app to predict if children with acute liver failure will need an urgent liver transplant or can recover on their own.

CHLA-led study shows reducing disparities in assigning livers for transplant improved outcomes for patients with pediatric acute liver failure.

Study finds that T-cells expressing PD-1 may help predict recovery in children with acute liver failure.

A CHLA study finds that racial and socioeconomic disparities contribute to delayed care and treatment for babies with craniosynostosis.

A CHLA study finds that children with HMO insurance face an average delay of nearly two months to receive authorization for gait analysis.

CHLA study finds that youth from lower-income families reported better mental health during the pandemic than adolescents from wealthier families

Receiving a liver transplant means also living with the possibility of rejection. Transplant rejection occurs when the body’s immune system attacks the new organ. This risk is highest in the first

A new class of drugs can relieve itching for cholestatic childhood liver disease and potentially lengthen time until a liver transplant is necessary.

CHLA researchers use imaging mass cytometry analysis of biopsies to find potential biomarkers that can predict transplant rejection.