Twelve-year-old Ezara-Mai comes to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for treatment for juvenile dermatomyositis, a rare condition that affects her muscles and skin. She is also an ambassador for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity, helping to increase awareness of GOSH and the charity and fundraising to help other patients like her.
Below are some of the types of rare diseases that scientists and clinicians are likely to be working on in the new Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Former and current Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) patients and representatives of the UK’s leading youth charities joined Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) employees in the first global RBC Trade for the Kids fundraising event.
Families, schools, patients and fun runners from across London took part in the RBC Race for the Kids, raising vital funds for Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).
Play Specialist Lynsey helped nine-year-old Myla cope with her fear of needles and feel ready for her big operation to get a new kidney.
Every day our play specialists help over 130 children understand anything from transplants to chemotherapy. We can only do this with your help. Please give today.
The Channel 4 Dispatches report of 11 August contained allegations of poor practice among some telephone fundraising agencies, including NTT Fundraising campaigning on behalf of the charity. As soon as we became aware of the report we stopped all fundraising calls with NTT and commissioned an independent investigation, with NTT’s full cooperation.
When April caught a cold at five months old, it triggered a heart attack – which revealed an undiagnosed heart condition. After surgery and spending time on a ventilator, April needed the help of the expert dieticians at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) to overcome a challenging aversion to food.
In many ways Taylor’s room is just like the bedroom of any seven-year-old boy. There is Lego everywhere and a school report is pinned above his bed, but his bed isn’t in his room at home in Leigh, near Manchester. Instead, it’s surrounded by medical equipment in Rainforest Ward at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).
The possibility of using animal parts to overcome human organ shortages moves one step closer following the successful transplant of rabbit skeletal muscle tissue into rats, by a team led by the UCL Institute of Child Health.
It’s not just some of the top doctors in the world who are helping to treat eight-year-old Rowan for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Great Ormond Street Hospital’s (GOSH) specialist physiotherapists and advanced nurse practitioners are supporting him too.
Grahame Chilton, Chief Executive of Arthur J. Gallagher, visited Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) to celebrate raising £10 million towards a brand new surgery centre at the hospital.
On Tuesday 11 December, over 700 guests attended the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity Christmas Carol Concert at the beautiful Victorian setting of St Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge.
During our Give to GOSH appeal, we introduced you to two-year-old Elliott, who had waited the longest period of time in the hospital's history before being able to start using an artificial heart.
