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BBC Two’s ‘Great Ormond Street’ concludes tonight

28 Jul 2015, 10:45 a.m.

The final episode in the third series of BBC Two’s BAFTA-nominated documentary, Great Ormond Street, airs tonight.

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Pre-teen body dissatisfaction predicts adolescent eating disorder behaviours

22 Jul 2015, 11:32 p.m.

Children as young as eight have body dissatisfaction that can trigger eating disorder behaviours in adolescence finds a study led by the UCL Institute of Child Health, the research partner of Great Ormond Street Hospital.

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Gene variation identified for teen binge eating

20 Jul 2015, 4:15 p.m.

A variation of a gene that can lead teenagers to binge eat has been identified by a team from the UCL Institute of Child Health, the research partner of Great Ormond Street Hospital.

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Non-white children face ‘needle in a haystack’ search for bone marrow matches because of donor shortage, warn Great Ormond Street doctors

13 Jul 2015, 12:44 p.m.

A national shortage of black, Asian and mixed race donors is putting desperately ill children of mixed-race backgrounds at a significant disadvantage, experts at Great Ormond Street Hospital have warned.

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Less intensive chemotherapy avoids irreversible side effects in some childhood cancers

8 Jul 2015, 6:19 p.m.

Children with a rare type of cancer called Wilms’ tumour who are at low risk of relapsing can now be given less intensive treatment, avoiding a type of chemotherapy that can cause irreversible heart problems in later life, reports a team led by researcher

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