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GOSH Charity Launches Families Appeal

22 Feb 2021, 9:34 a.m.

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSH Charity) has recently launched the Families Appeal - a new campaign to support children and families that come to GOSH every day.

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DCD Heart Transplant: GOSH Patients share why the new technique is important

21 Feb 2021, 9:32 a.m.

Using a technique that ‘reanimates’ the heart outside of the body, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), Royal Papworth Hospital (RPH) and NHS Blood & Transplant expand the donor pool and perform six paediatric heart transplants in 2020.

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World-first paediatric heart transplant technique boosts number of life-saving operations for children in the UK

21 Feb 2021, 9 a.m.

Using a technique that ‘reanimates’ the heart outside of the body, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Royal Papworth Hospital and NHS Blood & Transplant expand the donor pool and perform six paediatric heart transplants in 2020

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GOSH research facilities to play key role in world's first coronavirus Human Challenge study

19 Feb 2021, 5:20 p.m.

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) is playing a key role in the world’s first COVID-19 human challenge study, which will get underway shortly following approval from the UK’s clinical trials ethics body.

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Uninherited mutations cause spina bifida

19 Feb 2021, 4:53 p.m.

Scientists at the UCL GOS Institute of Child Health reveal that new genetic mutations which occur during embryonic development can cause the severe birth defect spina bifida. Many genes have been implicated in spina bifida, and mutations which are n…

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