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Tineke Dixon celebrated the 25th anniversary of her heart-and-lung transplant by revisiting the hospital which carried out the procedure in 1988.

The hospital arranged for Tineke to meet with some of the original transplant team

Press releases

New virus found to cause dangerous brain infectionA newly recognised virus, which shows similarities to viruses found in bats, mink, and sheep, may be the cause of a severe brain infection in children whose immune systems are low, discovers a team at Great Ormond Street Hospital. 08/01/2015
GOSH named as key centre in 100,000 Genome ProjectGreat Ormond Street Hospital is set to play a lead role in a project which will help researchers and clinicians better understand, and ultimately treat, rare and inherited diseases and common cancers. 22/12/2014
Cannabis-based medicine to be tested as child epilepsy therapyChildren with severe epilepsy could be helped by a new treatment derived from the cannabis plant. Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital and other UK centres have been given the go-ahead to test the medicine, which does not contain the ingredient that produces the high associated with recreational cannabis use. 17/12/2014

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