“When you’re told your baby daughter, who hasn’t yet had her first birthday, has a rare liver disease and will one day need a liver transplant, your whole world changes.” In this blog RCH parent Kerrie shares her times of heartache and joy through her daughter’s journey to liver transplant.
The Lort Smith Pet Therapy program at the RCH brings normality to children in an abnormal, difficult and sometimes stressful situation. Read this blog from coordinator of the RCH Visiting Volunteer Program Brenda Kittelty to find out more.
In this blog, RCH paediatrician and infant sleep specialist Dr Harriet Hiscock takes you through some realistic evidence-based strategies to help manage your baby’s sleep patterns.
Standards Australia today launched an Australian Standard at The Royal Children’s Hospital, which will assist in protecting children with disabilities and medical conditions in motor vehicles.
Recently, the RCH experienced a disappointing incident – a patient remained in the Emergency department for more than 24 hours.
Maxi is a patient at The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH). He is just two years old and has a mystery illness. Maxi’s team of doctors at the RCH are working tirelessly to find a diagnosis, a search that’s now gone global. This is a moving letter of thanks from Maxi to his doctors.
Of all vaccine preventable diseases, influenza is the leading cause of hospitalisation among Australian children under five years of age.
Professor Frank Oberklaid believes the call from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians to scrap the legal defence for physically disciplining children is a timely one.
The RCH has squeezed its well known artwork, including 14 metre tall sculpture ‘Creature’, into a compact iPad app.
MasterChef judges George Calombaris and Gary Mehigan show RCH patients how food gets from garden to plate.
