Last night the second episode of the BBC documentary series “Great Ormond Street” aired on BBC2. Called “A chance at life”, it focused on General Surgery and featured ten-year-old Eliana, who had a 3kg tumour in her abdomen.

In 2009, Eliana, at age eight, did not appear to be growing, was not eating properly and felt tired all the time so concerned parents Tara and Paul took her to see a paediatrician who ordered a scan. They thought she might have tonsillitis and were certainly not expecting the news that she had an enormous lump in her abdomen. Fearing it might be malignant, Eliana was immediately referred to Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Children with drug-resistant epilepsy across England will benefit from a major expansion of specialist brain surgery and assessment, the NHS has announced today.

At the beginning of May a brand new Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity advert started to air across UK TV channels, featuring patients and parents at Great Ormond Street Hospital. But who are these patients? And why are they in hospital? We spoke to the families of three of the patients to find out.

Calling all budding poets! Have a look at our little poem and give us your extra lines in the comments below! Get those creative juices going and don’t forget to sign up for RBC Race for the Kids here.

On Tuesday 8 May a new series of “Great Ormond Street” started on BBC2 with remarkable access to clinical teams at the hospital, featuring some of their most difficult and complex cases. ‘A Difficult Line’ observed doctors and parents grappling with the dilemma faced when a treatment for cancer in children can have a detrimental [...]

Calling all fast ones, slow ones and “don’t-run-that-much”-es… Join in the fun this summer with the RBC Race for the Kids. Please click “share” to help us get as many runners as possible so we can help even more Great Ormond Street Hospital patients and families.

Last year, when he was just four years old, my son Mason became the smallest person to undergo a lung transplant in the UK.

This week Channel 4 aired a documentary called “Turtle Boy”, showing the story of a young boy in Columbia being treated for an extreme case of congenital melanocytic nevus (CMN) by Mr Neil Bulstrode from Great Ormond Street Hospital. The boy’s birthmark which was so big it amassed to approximately 40% of his bodyweight.

On 1st April 2012, the UK Newborn Screening Programme Centre (UKNSPC) at Great Ormond Street Hospital celebrated its 10th anniversary. The programme identifies babies with rare conditions enabling early treatment.

GOSHCC Professor of Developmental Biology and Genetics, Jane Sowden, is part of a research team who have shown for the first time that transplanting light-sensitive photoreceptors into the eyes of visually impaired mice can restore their vision.