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August 17, 2019

Charity Launched to Support Separation of Conjoined Twins Following Landmark Surgery in London

Gemini Untwined will fund treatment and further our understanding of craniopagus conjoined children around the world Launch follows successful separation of previously conjoined twins in...

July 8, 2019

Children from Deprived Areas Six Times More Exposed to Tobacco Retail

Children from the most income deprived areas experienced similar exposure to tobacco retailing in one day as children from the least deprived areas experienced in...

June 11, 2019

New Evidence Questions Use of Saline Fluids to Resuscitate Critically Ill Children with sepsis

Doctors have urged hospitals around the world to reconsider the type of fluids used to treat children gravely ill with sepsis. In a new study,...

June 10, 2019

Rainbow Badges across the NHS

Last year, the Evelina London Children's Hospital, part of Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital Trust, became the first hospital in the UK to offer staff...

April 10, 2019

New UEA research shows impact of poverty on children’s brain activity

Children born into poverty show key differences in early brain function – according to new research from the University of East Anglia. Researchers studied the...

March 28, 2019

Children develop PTSD when they ‘overthink’ their trauma

Children are more likely to suffer Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) if they think their reaction to traumatic events is not ‘normal’ – according to...

March 28, 2019

OUH welcomes research on preserving boys’ fertility

Dr Sheila Lane, Paediatric Oncology Consultant at the Oxford Children’s Hospital welcomed today’s news, originally published in the journal Science, about the successful use of...

March 20, 2019

Administering Medication in Schools

It is vital that medication is only administered by staff appropriately trained and competent to give it, that it is always given according to written...

March 18, 2019

Aluminium in infant formula

We reported previously that some widely-used infant formulas are heavily contaminated with the known neurotoxin, aluminium. Infant formulas are the only form of nutrition for...

February 14, 2019

What makes a man? Testosterone only half the story, scientists say

Scientists have identified for the first time the details of an ‘alternative’ biological process required to develop male genitals in an unborn baby. The findings...