The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) has won a top public healthcare award for pioneering a home fingerprick blood test for children undergoing warfarin therapy.

18 November 2011.

The Royal Children’s Hospital has won a top Victorian public healthcare award for developing an educational DVD helping clinicians improve screening for developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) in children.

18 November 2011.

The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) has won a top Victorian public healthcare award for its specialist Eating Disorder Program.

18 November 2011.

Royal Children’s Hospital patient Jesse Rotzer has severe scoliosis and underwent major surgery to straighten his spine.

17 November 2011.

Researchers at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) have made a medical breakthrough into Kawasaki disease.

16 November 2011.

Natasha Tripp has spent most of her life in and out of the Royal Children’s Hospital with cystic fibrosis. This week she sat her final year 12 exam at the RCH.

14 November 2011.

A selection of children and their parents were given special access to the new RCH today to test the exciting new wayfinding system.

8 November 2011.

Five-year old Dane Stanley has cerebral palsy and recently underwent major surgery in the hope that he will one day walk unaided.

7 November 2011.

After more than seven years of planning and construction, the new Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) was officially opened this morning by Her Majesty The Queen.

26 October 2011.

Seven-year-old Matthew Brown has scoliosis and is too young to have spinal fusion surgery that would permanently correct the bend in his back. But his scoliosis places pressure on his heart, which is also compromised by a genetic disorder of his connective tissue known as Marfan syndrome. In September 2011, Matthew was one of the … Continued

24 October 2011.