Latest press releases

The latest Great Ormond Street Hospital press releases are collected here. For our general news and feature pieces, please access our news area.

Paralympic table tennis player Will Bayley opens the Children’s Hospital School’s redeveloped garden

21 Nov 2012, 2:34 p.m.

Paralympic table tennis player, Will Bayley, returned to school to open the Children’s Hospital School’s redeveloped outdoor space at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

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Funding boost for research into spinal muscular atrophy

21 Nov 2012, 10:33 a.m.

The Spinal Muscular Atrophy Trust (SMA Trust) has announced its £300,000 grant to fund research into this incurable neuromuscular condition.

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New cause of thyroid hormone deficiency discovered

14 Nov 2012, 9:54 a.m.

International researchers, including a team at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the UCL Institute of Child Health, have discovered a new cause for thyroid hormone deficiency, or hypothyroidism.

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Europe’s first research centre to tackle birth defects

25 Oct 2012, 4:05 p.m.

Better ways to tackle birth defects will be investigated at the Newlife Birth Defects Research Centre (BDRC) which officially opened on Thursday 25 October 2012.

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Study highlights success of 50 years of modern medical interventions for babies with heart defects

22 Oct 2012, 10:29 a.m.

A study published in this month’s Archives of Diseases in Childhood shows a marked increase in survival rates for babies born with congenital heart defects (CHDs) during the last 50 years.

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