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Professor David Rowitch, Head of the Department of Paediatrics at the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine in the USA.

Whole genome sequencing has improved clinical care of some children with cancer in England by informing individual patient care. Research published today supports the efforts to provide genome sequencing to all children with cancer and shows how it can improve the management of care in real-time, providing more benefits than all current tests combined.

¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ Children’s Hospital, which will be the first specialist children’s hospital for the East of England, has been given the green light to proceed to the final stage of its business case development. This means that pre-construction works can begin on the site of the new hospital, opposite the Rosie Maternity Hospital on Robinson Way, early next year.

As many as a half of all drinkers underestimated how drunk they were, judging themselves still safe to drive despite having exceeded the legal driving limit, in new research published today.

¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ scientists are among the new Fellows announced today by the Royal Society.

Scientists have tracked the very early stages of human foetal gut development in incredible detail, and found specific cell functions that appear to be reactivated in the gut of children with Crohn’s Disease. 

The world’s first licensed, downloadable artificial pancreas app for people with type 1 diabetes launches today, based on over a decade of research by Professor Roman Hovorka at the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ and ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, has announced up to £100 million of public capital for an innovative children’s hospital for the east of England. This will be a new facility that is purpose-built to meet the needs of the region’s youngest patients, integrating mental and physical health and combining the highest quality services with world class science and research.

Our brains begin to form in the womb but continue to take shape into adolescence. In a series of articles, we look at how the latest research could help us support children’s development, helping them overcome learning disorders and build resilience against future mental health problems.

Welcome to our new ‘Spotlight on children’, a focus on research taking place at the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ relating to children and childhood – from health to education, language to literacy, parents to playtime, risk to resilience.