Champions for Children: Meet Elyse Passmore

Dr Elyse Passmore is a biomedical engineer working in the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute at the Royal Children’s Hospital. The Good Friday Appeal proudly supports her research into artificial intelligence (AI). To recognise her work in the lead up to the appeal, we spoke to Elyse about how AI is making waves in the world of healthcare.

Ayla on road to health after nine-hour brain surgery

It took nine months of riding a merry-go-round of recurrent sickness and visits to doctors before the sinister ­secret growing at the back of Ayla’s brain was ­finally revealed. Click here to read her story.

Aliyana is a blooming marvel

Almost a year after being diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, Aliyana hopes to start ticking things off her ever-growing “after cancer to-do list”. Click here to read her story.

Harry’s happy rebound – Health system kicks into gear to save bub

The blood test results defied what doctors saw in front of them. On paper, Harry Warnock should be critically ill with such a low blood count. But as fast as the rare condition took hold of the then four-month-old’s kidneys, he recovered just as quickly thanks to a life-saving drug and top-class medical system.