A new outreach clinic providing specialist echocardiographs for children with heart conditions is helping deliver vital care closer to home, sparing regional families hundreds of kilometres in travel.
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Freddie might only be three years old, but he has already made history as the first person ever recorded with his extremely rare genetic condition.
A new viral vector manufacturing facility being built in the Westmead precinct is set to change the treatment landscape for patients with genetic diseases, cancers and viral infections, enabling gene therapies to be trialled and delivered sooner.
NSW Premier, Chris Minns, announced the statewide roll out of the virtualKIDS Urgent Care Service, with the program already helping almost 1,000 families since the formal expansion last month.
13-year-old Riley was over the moon to become the first patient at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead (CHW) to receive a life-changing new treatment for achondroplasia.
Three boys in NSW have become the youngest in the world to receive therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in a world-first trial.
When 18-year-old Niamh was diagnosed with a rare life-threatening form of invasive fungal sinusitis, she faced a future filled with surgeries and long stays in hospital, but a new model of care has helped to change that.
Patients with difficult-to-treat bacterial infections across NSW will soon have better access to limb and life-saving therapy known as phage therapy, thanks to a $3.5 million funding boost announced by the NSW Government.
It’s the definition of preparing for the worst and hoping for the best – Australia's very first biocontainment centre, designed to safely contain and treat patients with the most infectious and dangerous diseases.
On National Sorry Day, SCHN unveiled a permanent plaque at the site of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in Camperdown, formally apologising for the role the hospital played in removal of Aboriginal children and the legacy of trauma and grief caused.