Unit highlights - archive
November 2006: PGD team wins Hospital Doctor award for innovation
The PGD team won the Innovation Team of the Year in the 2006 awards.
The Hospital Doctor award is a national event open to all NHS Trusts to recognise and reward the excellent work carried out. Teams are assessed for their innovation, teamwork, quality and effective use of resources.
For more information, see the Hospital Doctor awards press release |on the Guy's and St Thomas' website.
November 2006: Arrival of the UK's first PGH and 100th PGD babies
Guy's and St Thomas' announced the birth of the UK's first babies to be born using the pioneering preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) technique called PGH (preimplantation genetic haplotyping). The twins were also the 100th to be born on the Trust's leading PGD programme.
Like many of the couples helped by our team, the Greenstreet family already have one child with a serious genetic condition - cystic fibrosis. PGH was used to identify embryos unaffected by cystic fibrosis, for which both partners carry the gene.
For more information, see the 100th PGD babies press release |on the Guy's and St Thomas' website.
June 2006: launch of preimplantation genetic haplotyping (PGH)
Guy's and St Thomas' launched the revolutionary new technology PGH, which allowed more conditions to be diagnosed, more acurately, so couples would be able to benefit from preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD).
For more information, see the PGH press release |on the Guy's and St Thomas' website.
Press coverage:
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The Times
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The Independent - front page
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The Guardian - front page
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The Sun
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The Daily Mail - front page
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The Express
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The Telegraph
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Financial Times
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Reuters
Broadcast - interviews with Alison Lashwood, Peter Braude, Pam Renwick or Caroline Ogilvie
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BBC News - 1 O'clock News (interview with Alison and Peter)
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ITN News - 12.30pm News, top story (interview with Peter)
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Sky News - all day, top story (interviews with Alison and Caroline)
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Channel 4 News - 12 noon, top story (interviews with Peter and Caroline)
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Channel 4 News - 7pm (interview with Caroline)
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Channel 5 News - evening news (interview with Alison)
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BBC News 24 - all day (interview with Alison)
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BBC Breakfast News, top story (interview with Alison)
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BBC Radio 4 Today programme (interview with Peter)
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BBC Radio Scotland (interview with Alison)
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BBC Radio Wales (interview with Alison)
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Radio 5 Live (interview with Alison)
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BBC World Service - lunchtime (interview with Pam in Prague)
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