Rare Disease Day takes place annually on the last day of February and is a global opportunity to increase awareness and advocate for those living with rare conditions.
Incredible images showcase moments of discovery at GOSH
28 Feb 2025, 9:02 a.m.
A surprising floral image helping researchers study Hirschsprung disease, a rare bowel disease in children, has been crowned the winner of the annual National Institute for Health and Care Research Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Cent
GOSH Professor appointed to co-chair national children and young people cancer task force
14 Feb 2025, 9 a.m.
We are delighted to congratulate Prof. Darren Hargrave and Dame Caroline Dinenage on their appointments as co-chairs of the Children and Young People Cancer Task force.
Revolutionary eye gene therapy gives children life-changing improvements
21 Feb 2025, 10:31 a.m.
Four children have gained life-changing improvements in their sight following pioneering eye gene therapy at Great Ormond Street Hospital for a rare genetic blindness.
First-of-its-kind study will assess psychological impact of sudden cardiac death on children
3 Mar 2025, 9:36 a.m.
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and University College London (UCL) will lead a pioneering study with the hope of revealing more about how best to help children who have experienced an unexpected and often traumatic loss in the family.
Surgeons mark 40 years since first conjoined twins separation
3 Mar 2025, 7 p.m.
Two surgeons who led the first ever separation of conjoined twins at Great Ormond Street Hospital forty years ago have been reunited with their patient.
Rare Disease Day is an international event which takes place annually on the last day of February. The date is chosen because in leap years it is February 29, the rarest date!
The DAISY Award is an international recognition programme that honours and celebrates the incredible work of nurses and midwives. You can nominate a registered nurse for three different categories - here's how.
First patient treated with groundbreaking gene therapy trial
21 Mar 2025, 9:51 a.m.
A baby boy born with a rare condition has become the first in the world to be treated with a new, potentially lifechanging, investigational gene therapy on a clinical trial at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).
A new study led by researchers at University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health has found that women have a higher proportion of key immune cells between puberty and menopause.
Cutting-edge genomic technology saves girl from rare brain infection
30 Apr 2025, 8:14 a.m.
Great Ormond Street Hospital has launched the UK’s first accredited ‘metagenomics’ testing service, that allows clinicians to identify infections that are otherwise undetectable.
