Sickle cell disease and COVID-19: What we’re telling patients
COVID-19 infections can create additional health issues for sickle cell disease patients. Here’s what we’re telling our patients and their families.
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Category: Clinical Care
Clinical hypnosis: the mind’s suggestion box
Through clinical hypnosis, psychologists bring cancer patients into a mental state of increased concentration and suggestibility in which they can learn to manage discomfort and anxiety associated with cancer treatment.
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The enhanced role of an infectious disease specialist
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical role – and deficit of – infectious disease specialists.
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It’s time for patient guidelines for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia
The new NCCN Guidelines for Patients: Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia is the first patient resource from the NCCN focused primarily on children.
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St. Jude families provide valuable insights to staff through virtual adviser community
This parent-driven adviser community helps many different clinical and quality of life departments deliver the best care to patients.
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T-Cell therapy may bridge treatment gap for pediatric acute myeloid leukemia
This clinical trial may inform future treatments for pediatric acute myeloid leukemia patients needing a bone marrow transplant.
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Let people with sickle cell disease inform clinical trial communication
There are communication and ethical barriers to increased awareness of therapies for sickle cell disease. This group formed to take on those barriers and help those suffering from sickle cell disease to find treatments and sign up for clinical trials.
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Surviving the edge of life: My journey with ICU recovery
After recovering from being in the ICU after complications from a surgery, this psychologist learned about the importance of addressing the comprehensive needs of critically ill patients during and after ICU hospitalization.
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BRAVE program helps ICU patients get moving sooner
This program gets ICU patients moving early to help decrease time in the ICU and time on ventilators and return to normal activities more quickly.
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Infection prevention and control: Planning patient protection during a pandemic
As the pandemic began to emerge in the United States, the Occupational Health and Infection Prevention and Control departments at St. Jude worked to implement infection prevention plans to protect staff and patients.
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Self-care: The No. 1 thing you can do for your child
Taking care of yourself first is this psychologist’s advice for parents and caregivers addressing infant and toddler mental health.
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New screening process helps clinicians identify educational and mental health problems in children with hemophilia
This new screening tool improves the chances that pediatric hemophilia patients will have mental health issues identified early to allow for early educational and psychosocial services.
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