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.

First example of a heritable abnormality affecting semantic cognition found

20 Jun 2012, 12:52 p.m.

Four generations of a single family have been found to possess an abnormality within a specific brain region which appears to affect their ability to recall verbal material, a new study by researchers at the University of Bristol and University College Lo

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BBC2 Great Ormond Street – part six

19 Jun 2012, 6:27 p.m.

The final part of the series following the patients, families, and clinical teams of Great Ormond Street Hospital aired on Tuesday 19 June at 9pm on BBC2.

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London 2012 chairman Lord Coe opens Great Ormond Street Hospital’s new Morgan Stanley Clinical Building with budding athletes

14 Jun 2012, 12:52 p.m.

First part of Mittal Children’s Medical Centre benefitting patients.

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World renowned illustrators help hospital and Amnesty International showcase human rights

12 Jun 2012, 4:41 p.m.

Amnesty International UK and Great Ormond Street Hospital have unveiled the new art exhibition ‘We Are All Born Free’ at the hospital to help children explore the theme of human rights.

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Great Ormond Street continues on BBC2

12 Jun 2012, 8:31 a.m.

The fifth part of the series following the patients, families, and clinical teams of Great Ormond Street Hospital continued on Tuesday 12 June at 9pm on BBC2.

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