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GOSH appoints medical director

29 May 2019, 1:26 p.m.

Sanjiv Sharma has been appointed on a permanent basis to the role of Medical Director at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).

International Clinical Trials Day – Meet Matei

20 May 2019, 9:59 a.m.

To mark International Clinical Trials Day this May, we took a visit to the Clinical Research Facility (CRF) to meet with GOSH mum Flavia, whose son Matei has been on a clinical trial at the hospital for the last couple of years.

New NHS treatment available for first time for patients with a rare neuromuscular disorder

15 May 2019, 12:08 p.m.

Patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and across the country are to benefit from a new drug on the NHS that targets the underlying cause of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).

Mental Health Awareness Week at GOSH

13 May 2019, 5:03 p.m.

If you’re visiting Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) between 13 – 19 May, you’ll notice the hospital looking a little different than usual. That’s because we’re lighting up some of our buildings with green light, as part of our support for Mental Health

First use of pioneering phage virus therapy to treat patient with cystic fibrosis

10 May 2019, 1:38 p.m.

A new treatment that uses a cocktail of naturally-occurring viruses to infect and destroy bacteria has been used for the first time to treat a fifteen year old patient at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).