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Providing care with heart

20 Nov 2018, 10:16 a.m.

Yaseer has been a patient at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for most of his life. Since his first open heart surgery when he was five years old, he has been touched by the care and expertise of those who have looked after him.

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First UK surgery in the womb for baby with spina bifida

24 Oct 2018, 12:01 a.m.

A team from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and University College London Hospitals (UCLH) have carried out the first two operations on the damaged spinal cords of babies in the womb, in what are the first surgeries of their kind in the UK.

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Surviving a cardiac arrest

17 Oct 2018, 10:15 a.m.

On the night of 23 February 2013, Violet, a healthy, seven-year-old girl suffered a cardiac arrest. Up until that point, her parents never had cause for any concern.

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Restart a Heart Day 2018

16 Oct 2018, 3:38 p.m.

For the third year running, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) was pleased to work with the Resuscitation Council UK and London Ambulance Service to invite school children from the local community to be trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skil

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GOSH team reveals the world’s first functional tissue engineered oesophagus

16 Oct 2018, 3:18 p.m.

Researchers have grown the world’s first oesophagus engineered from stem cells and successfully transplanted them into mice, in a pioneering new study led by Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (IC

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