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10.11.2009 - Daily Express
THE DIAGNOSIS of a critical illness for a son or daughter is every parent s worst nightmare. Any serious health condition can mean separation from siblings and absences from school. Then there s the treatment, which can be painful or have unpleasant side effects.
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02.10.2009 - BBC News Tyne
Work is due to begin on a dedicated transplant centre in Tyneside, described as the first of its kind in the UK.
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02.10.2009 - Sunderland Echo
Inspirational Grace Jones has defied the doctors after undergoing a major operation to correct a curvature in her spine.
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30.07.2009 - BBC News West Yorkshire
A baby who was given only months to live unless she received a new heart has returned home after a transplant.
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01.07.2009 - Journal Live
GREAT North Run founder Brendan Foster has announced a special partnership between the North East’s biggest sporting event and a new children’s hospital in the region.
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20.04.2009 - News & Star
The family and friends of brave young brain tumour victim Ethan Tweedie rallied to his support in a sponsored 12-hour tennis game. Ethan with parents Amanda and Andrew at Chatsworth Tennis Club The six-year-old Carlisle youngster was rushed to hospital for lifesaving surgery in January.
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13.03.2009 - BBC News
Two sick babies have received new hearts within minutes of each other at the same Tyneside Hospital. Ellen Walsh, 10 months, and Patrick Skinner, two, both of North Tyneside, are recovering after the operations at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital on Monday.
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03.03.2009 - Chronicle Live
A LITTLE boy who was born with an extra half-vertebrae is set to have a major operation to correct his spine. Jack Sundin, two, of Whitley Bay, could not have had a more difficult start to life.
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26.02.2009 - Gazette Live.co.uk
A BUG-FREE bubble will be brave tot Henry Valks' survival pod after a last-ditch bone marrow transplant to save his life. The three-year-old suffering from leukaemia will be cocooned safe in a sterile world behind a glass screen.
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12.01.2009 - Barnsley Today
A DONCASTER family is back together for the first time in five months after their baby was allowed to bid farewell to her bubble.
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08.01.2009 - The Whitehaven News
IT was both the best and worst of Christmases for one Whitehaven family. View more pictures... Katelyn McAleavy plays at home at Woodhouse with mum Amy and dad Gareth and her little brother Emmerson.
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29.12.2008 - Journal Live
A BOY given a new tongue in pioneering surgery at a North hospital has been nominated for a prestigious bravery award. Four-year-old Daniel Sewell has been nominated for a Little Star award, which is backed by F1 champion Lewis Hamilton, Dr Who actor David Tennant and Arsenal football star Cesc Fabregas.
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26.12.2008 - Hartlepool Today
A YOUNGSTER is having the best Christmas ever after getting a new kidney in a life-saving operation.
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20.12.2008 - Sunday Sun
YOUNG mum Michelle Beynon has seen her Christmas wish come true . . . she can finally give her fragile tot a tender kiss. It’s only natural for a mum to give her child a peck on the cheek, but Michelle has had to resist the simple gesture for months because any intimate physical contact could have proved...
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17.12.2008 - Chronicle Live
FESTIVE wishes came true for these poorly youngsters. All hope to be back home for the arrival of Father Christmas, but a surprise visit by their favourite Toon stars had them beaming.
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11.12.2008 - Chronicle Live
THE family of heart-swap toddler Martha Andersen have an extra reason to celebrate. A charity set up in honour of the youngster has been picked as the Blaydon Race’s chosen beneficiary.
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08.12.2008 - Daily Mail
A child's first words are memorable for any parent. But when Daniel Sewell said 'mama' for the first time, his parents had more reason than most to rejoice.
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24.11.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
THEY may only be small but each one has won a huge fight for life. And staff from the special baby care unit, who helped them, were reunited with the children and their families at the Tiny Lives Christmas celebration yesterday.
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20.11.2008 - Sunday Sun
THESE exclusive pictures provide the first glimpse inside the new £100m Great North Children’s Hospital. Sunday Sun readers are the first to take this visual tour of the site at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary.
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15.11.2008 - Journal Live
IT is a memorable moment in any mother’s life when her child utters their first word. But when Daniel Sewell said “Mam” for the first time it was an extra special for his mum Alison.
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09.11.2008 - Sunday Sun
1 2 next » THESE pictures show just how far burns victim Abbie Beattie has come in the past seven years. Her happy, smiling face is a tribute both to her own bravery and to the amazing work of plastic surgeons and other medical staff at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary.
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02.11.2008 - Sunday Sun
THESE amazing pictures offer a glimpse of a world-class hospital for children to be built in the North . . . with your help. The £100m Great North Children’s Hospital — due to welcome its first patients next year — is currently under construction next to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.
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22.10.2008 - The Shields Gazette
BEAMING for the camera – these proud parents are cradling the baby they thought they'd never see. Little fighter Jessie Temple weighed just 1lb 12oz when she was delivered nine weeks early on July 14, after she'd stopped growing in her mum's womb.
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01.10.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
HE has spent his short life coping with a debilitating muscle-wasting disease. But there is a glimmer of hope for youngster Lee Armstrong as he has become one of the first youngsters in the world to take part in a new drug trial to try to combat his illness.
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15.09.2008 - Shields Gazette
A BOY born with the arteries on the wrong side of his heart is celebrating his first week at school after getting a clean bill of health. Will Heslop was just eight days old when he had open heart surgery to correct the condition, which affects one in 30,000 babies.
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05.09.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
SMILING through his meningitis anguish, Robbie Jones is home. The 23-month-old had both of his legs and the tips of his fingers on his left hand amputated after contracting a strain of the virus.
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04.09.2008 - West Cumberland Times and Star
IT HAS been a huge week for six-year-old Chloe Lambert â⠬â she started back at school, her dadâ⠬⠢s local pub raised over à £1,600 for charity and she was given the all-clear after a battle with leukaemia.
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01.09.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
Young people with cleft lips and palates proudly showed off a film they made to help others on Tyneside with the condition. Health Reporter HELEN RAE takes a look at their experiences SCORES of people born with cleft lips and palates took part in a fun event at a North East hospital to highlight the...
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30.08.2008 - Yorkshire Post
A TODDLER has reached the birthday his parents never thought he would see after medics used a pioneering treatment to save him from whooping cough.
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27.08.2008 - Sunderland Echo
BRAVE Sam Turnbull is fighting fit after battling against a heart condition which threatened his life. The nine-year-old has already undergone three major surgeries â  the first when he was just a day old â  to correct a heart defect and doctors expect to perform more as he gets older.
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16.08.2008 - News and Star
WHEN Kasabian rock out Carlisleâ⠬⠢s Sands Centre tonight the sound will be especially sweet for two Cumbrian teenagers. Fans Niall Ritchie and Emily Richardson have been given tickets for the sell-out gig as a reward for the way they have both bravely battled cancer.
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15.08.2008 - Sunderland Echo
Two years ago Kenzi Quinn was on an operating table at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary, having a life-saving kidney transplant.Now the six-year-old is going from strength to strength, winning two gold medals and one silver at her first British Transplant Games.
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11.08.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
A childrenâ s charity has given a grant to a Tyneside doctor for research into identical twins. AILSA MACMILLAN examines how the medical study has helped further child healthcare today.
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05.08.2008 - BBC
Theo only has half a heart and has had five operationsA baby born with half-a-heart is on his way home only two months after he was given just weeks to live.
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05.08.2008 - Times Online
A newborn baby was saved from kidney failure after a paediatrician built a dialysis machine for her in his garage. Millie Kelly was given little chance of surviving her first weeks when she suffered kidney failure after a lifesaving operation.
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29.07.2008 - Sunderland Echo
The nine-year-old spent five months unconscious in a hospital bed after the road smash and doctors did not expect him to survive.Week after week, his devastated family prayed by his bedside for any sign of life.
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29.07.2008 - Sunderland Echo
A baby girl born with a hole in her tiny heart has been given the all-clear by doctors. Emma Davies underwent hours of gruelling surgery after she was diagnosed with the life-threatening condition just hours after her birth.
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23.07.2008 - News & Star
JUST three weeks ago the parents of little Theo Giles Davies were watching their baby fight for his life, knowing that if he didn’t get a new heart he would not survive.
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18.07.2008 - Garstang Courier
Her parents call it a miracle ... battling baby Jessica Atherton has amazed doctors by rallying after they were forced to take her off life support. The Wigan toddler is still seriously ill and may yet need a heart transplant, but medics at the specialist Freeman Hospital in Newcastle have been surprised and.
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17.07.2008 - News Guardian
Nine-year-old Chloe Allan from Queens Crescent is involved in the project, which uses tailor-made computer games and is being piloted at the Cerebral Palsy Research and Therapy Centre, with ten other children from the north east.
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13.07.2008 - Sunday Sun
“ANGELS on earth” is how the staff on Newcastle General Hospital’s Ward 24 were described by their nominator. Consultant Juliet Hale proudly picked up the award on behalf of her team that treats children and teenagers with cancer, in particular those suffering from brain tumours.
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10.07.2008 - BBC
A seven-year-old boy with a rare genetic illness is returning home almost nine months after a life-saving bone marrow transplant.Rhys Harris of Newbridge, south Wales, was diagnosed with an incurable genetic disease called Nemo when aged three.
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09.07.2008 - Northeast Journal
CHILDREN with cerebral palsy are being encouraged to play computer games in a pioneering way to help treat the condition. Ten North East families are taking part in the therapy trials using specially-written software and hi-tech Nintendo Wii remote controls.
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09.07.2008 - News Guardian
A PURPOSE-built cinema is being installed in the heart of a new development at a Tyneside hospital. Patients at the Royal Victoria Infirmary will soon benefit from the big screen thanks to the hospital joining forces with the Newcastle Healthcare Charity and MediCentre, a national charity supported by the...
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09.07.2008 - BBC
Theo only has half a heart and has had five operations A baby given weeks to live unless a heart donor is found has amazed doctors by coming off his life support machine.
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07.07.2008 - Northeast Journal
THE family of a little girl who suffers from a rare genetic disorder has launched a fundraising campaign in a bid to find a cure for her condition. Toddler Emily Kate Jackson is playful and adventurous, but just weeks ago she was airlifted to intensive care battling through a two hour epileptic seizure.
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07.07.2008 - Northeast Journal
WE have a great history of providing dedicated healthcare for children in the North East with the Sanderson and Fleming Childrenâ s Hospitals built in the 19th century.
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05.07.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
THE announcement of his name brought beaming smiles to their young faces. But Kevin Keegan was visiting Newcastleâ s Royal Victoria Infirmary to announce a special name himself.
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03.07.2008 - Berwick Advertiser
The 245-bed state-of-the-art complex is expected to be fully completed by 2010, bringing together services currently offered at three different sites within the city.
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01.07.2008 - BBC
The surgeon of a baby boy given just weeks to live has backed an appeal to help find a heart donor. Theo Davis has a condition called hyperplastic left heart syndrome, which means he was born with half a heart.
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27.06.2008 - Lancaster Guardian
Two months ago Jessica Atherton appeared to be a perfectly healthy tot. Dad Roy, a 36-year-old software engineer, said they first noticed a change in mid-April when Jessica's lips kept going blue.
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26.06.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
Plans for region's first hospital cinema unveiled by , Evening Chronicle PLANS for the regions first hospital cinema, offering bedridden patients the chance to enjoy the silver screen, have been launched.
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23.06.2008 - News and Star
A teenager has won the battle with cancer her father lost when she was a little girl â⠬â and received a magical reward for her bravery. Images: more photos of the circus day Emily Richardson, of Great Corby near Carlisle, spent almost a year in hospital after she was diagnosed with the bone cancer...
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17.06.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
A North East student nurse has shared her transplant experiences with US youngsters. Health Reporter HELEN RAE finds out more A NURSING student who underwent a successful kidney transplant as a child proved she was an inspiration for young transplant patients all over the world.
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11.06.2008 - Northern Echo
A MIRACLE baby airlifted to hospital for open heart surgery when she was only hours old is back home in the arms of her parents. Evie McVeigh was less than a day old and was fighting for her life when she was taken by helicopter from The James Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough, to the Freeman...
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05.06.2008 - BBC News Wales
Doctors treating a seven-year-old boy with a rare genetic illness say they are pleased with his progress.
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04.06.2008 - Gazette Live
WHEN Emily Curtis fought off a rare cancer her family breathed a huge sigh of relief. The germ cell cancer was not known for coming back. But on April 16 barely a week after celebrating her seventh birthday Emilyâ s family received the devastating news that the disease had returned.
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04.06.2008 - Sky News
A seven-year-old boy who has spent two months in an airtight 'bubble' is going home at last. Rhys Harris: A changed boy Rhys Harris has been suffering from a rare killer illness called Nauclear Encoding Essential Modulator - or Nemo for short.
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03.06.2008 - Mail on Sunday
Young Rhys Harris is the first child in Britain to be cured of a rare illness that should have killed him - thanks to space-age medical technology. The brave seven-year-old suffered from the rare genetic disease called Nemo which crippled his immune system and left him dying.
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02.06.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
A special charity appeal that will help scores of sick children in the region is halfway to reaching its £470,000 target. Health Reporter HELEN RAE takes a look JUST weeks ago football hero Alan Shearer pledged his support to help transform the lives of children needing treatment at Newcastleâ s Royal...
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02.06.2008 - Northeast Journal
TODAY sees the launch of a Journal-backed campaign to raise funds for a world-class childhood respiratory unit in the North East. Led by Dr David Spencer, a Newcastle-based specialist in childrenâ s breathing problems, the Puffin Appeal is aiming to raise £2m to improve the lives of children with...
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02.06.2008 - Sunderland Echo
But what makes this little battler extra special is her story of courage after she was born two months premature with a quadruple heart defect which left her fighting for her life.
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01.06.2008 - Sunday People
'My little boy screamed in agony..he couldn't even bear me to cuddle him. It was a mum's nightmare' BRAVEST of the BRAVE MAN OF THE PEOPLE FUND BACKS THE CHARITIES WHO SUPPORT FAMILIES OF INSPIRATIONAL KIDSBy Bethany UsherDesperately ill tot Harry Callaghan was in such agony he could not even bear his doting.
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28.05.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
PROUDLY wearing his white martial arts outfit, Nathaniel Smith is a fighter in more ways than one. Two years ago he was in intensive care after a fire ripped through his home on the Springwell Estate, Gateshead, leaving him with burns to two-thirds of his body.
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28.05.2008 - Northampton Evening Telegraph
Jack Vellam, who will be two on July 5, returned to his former home in Pitsford on August 30 last year after a heart transplant.Only months earlier he was put on a Berlin heart, an artificial heart machine that kept him alive.
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27.05.2008 - Gazette Live
A TEENAGER has been left with horrific burns after suffering a huge electric shock. The 13-year-old was rushed to hospital with 50% burns on Saturday night.
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26.05.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
by Tom Mullen, Evening Chronicle HIS tiny life was saved once before now it looks as though the skills of the surgeons are needed again. Alec Hutchinson, three, was born with a condition which meant the blood vessels in his heart were plumbed in back to front.
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20.05.2008 - Sunderland Echo
A toddler who became the youngest person to beat cancer with chemotherapy has been celebrating a special day. Not only has this little star been enjoying his third birthday, he has also helped raise 50,000 to support other sick children.
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14.05.2008 - Sunderland Echo
Rebecca Redman was moved to organise the night at the Londonderry pub in Sunderland after hearing about the plight of little Martha Anderson.The tot was just nine months old when she started to have breathing difficulties and was taken into hospital.
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10.05.2008 - Sunderland Echo
For most of his life, he has been battling a killer condition, from which his parents feared he might never recover.Now, after three-and-a-half years of chemotherapy, the little star has finally been told he is cancer-free.
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25.04.2008 - Northeast Journal
A NEW star was crowned last night as thousands of pounds was raised to help young cancer sufferers across the region. Teenager Karen Harding wowed the judges in the final of the Music Means Life concert, in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust.
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24.04.2008 - Gazette Live
TINY baby Rachael Walsh had the damaged heart of an 80-year-old and was struggling hard to survive. At five months old, she had only weeks to live and was put on the transplant list.
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22.04.2008 - Metro Radio
Get a move on and become part of the Run This yearâ s Greggâ s Childrenâ s Cancer Run will take place at Gosforth Park on Sunday, 11th May and Metro Radio and Magic 1152 are pleased to be supporting the event.
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22.04.2008 - Telegraph
A boy who suffers from a rare genetic condition that affects his immune system has been given a life saving bone marrow transplant by his eight-year-old sister.
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21.04.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
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21.04.2008 - Sunderland Echo
Liam Seymour planted a well-deserved kiss on the cheek of sister Stephanie after she gave him the gift of life.
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14.04.2008 - BBC
Jordon Thompson died in September 2007A cancer charity is being launched at the home of Newcastle United in memory of a talented 15-year-old footballer who died last September.
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12.04.2008 - Sunderland Echo
HE looks like any normal eight-month-old baby - but little Bailey Cooper is battling through his first bout of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer.
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10.04.2008 - Chronicle Live
:: To read Jack's online diary click here IT’S the day Jack Close has been waiting for. After spending six weeks in isolation following a bone marrow transplant, he has now been allowed to step outside.
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08.04.2008 - BBC
Alice waited four years for a kidney transplantA seven-year-old Teesside girl who waited four years for a life-saving kidney transplant is out of intensive care, her father has said.
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07.04.2008 - News Guardian
FOOTBALL legend Paul Bracewell has become the first person registered to take part in this year's Gregg's Children's Cancer Run. The former Newcastle United and Sunderland midfielder will be joined by more than 10,000 runners at Gosforth Park on Sunday, May 11, in an effort to raise funds for the North of...
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07.04.2008 - Chronicle Live
Health reporter HELEN RAE speaks to the mum of the youngest child to have a cochlear implant in the North East SMILING for the camera little Faith Usher-Curry looks like any child her age as she excitedly reads a book with her mum.
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05.04.2008 - Hartlepool Today
BRAVE Alice Skinner's four-year wait for a kidney finally ended last night after she underwent a five-hour transplant operation.
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03.04.2008 - BBC
Zoe suffered six cardiac arrests while waiting for a new heartA little girl who suffered six cardiac arrests and spent 100 days on an artificial heart is making a good recovery after a transplant.
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02.04.2008 - Hartlepool Mail
LITTLE Kai Branthwaite battled back from a rare condition which left him needing open-heart surgery at just four weeks old. Kai is now just like any mischievous toddler.
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01.04.2008 - Sunderland Echo
But behind his smile lies a different story - battling back from open heart surgery at only four weeks old.Kai was born with a condition called transposition of the great arteries, leaving worried mum Natalie Dugdale and dad Steven Branthwaite fearing he might not even survive birth.
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29.03.2008 - Sunderland Echo
A battling 10-year-old who suffered kidney failure has been given a new lease of life. Wearside youngster Kyle McLaughlin was on the donor register for four years after a virus caused renal failure and left him needing a transplant.
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26.03.2008 - Telegraph
By Nigel Bunyan A three-year-old boy has undergone pioneering surgery to correct a condition that meant his heart pumped blood the wrong way around his body.
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23.03.2008 - Morpeth Herald
John and Andrew Templey, who live in Hepscott, will do the 126-mile Coast to Coast ride from Workington to Tynemouth in four days between Good Friday and Easter Monday to raise money for North East Children's Cancer Research, based at the RVI in Newcastle.
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22.03.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
KIERAN Jennings is five years old but this week he is hearing sounds for the first time. The plucky youngster was born deaf and relied on sign language to communicate with others.
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19.03.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
by Amy Hunt, Evening Chronicle BACK from the brink, Jack Close grins after being told his swap op was a success. Doctors told the eight-year-old his bone marrow transplant went well.
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19.03.2008 - Campaign Series
THE father of little Rhys Harris, recovering from a pioneering bone marrow transplant to save his life, sets off on a 340-mile sponsored bike ride today.
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11.03.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
by Jane Picken, Evening Chronicle ITS been exactly one year since heart-swap toddler Martha Andersen was given another chance of life. And the bright two-year-old is getting stronger by the day, delighting medics at Newcastles Freeman Hospital who have been monitoring her progress since the transplant...
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11.03.2008 - News Guardian
MEMBERS of a local sporting group are planning their annual tournament in aid of charity. The Delaval Arms Golf Society has announced the date for its fifth annual charity day to raise money for the new Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT) Unit at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.
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11.03.2008 - Hartlepool Today
A LITTLE girl who was born without any kidneys has celebrated her birthday. Hartlepool youngster Alice Skinner turned seven last Wednesday and for her proud dad George Skinner and mum Nicola Andrews it was a truly magical moment.
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08.03.2008 - Chronicle Live
A unit for teenagers battling cancer is about to reopen on Tyneside after being given state-of-the-art new premises. Health reporter Jane Picken talks to the youngsters who have already benefited from its care.
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04.03.2008 - Northeast Journal
A CHILDRENS cancer unit consultant is urging youngsters to get involved in a charity event to raise money for a new hospital unit in Newcastle. Dr Kevin Windebank, a consultant at the Royal Victoria Infirmarys teenage cancer unit, is hoping families will help by buying tickets for an X-factor-style Music...
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03.03.2008 - The Bolton News
Bubble baby Logan's Mother's Day delight SPENDING Mother's Day together at home was the best thing Logan Wilkieson's family could have wished for. Logan, aged 11 months, is back at home after spending 16 weeks living in hospital in a 'bubble' of clean air to help him overcome a deadly disease.
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02.03.2008 - icnewcastle.icnetwork
A LEADING doctor is to review the case of a seriously ill brother and sister in a bid to keep them alive. Newcastle-based Professor Andrew Cant, pictured below, will put the young siblings through a series of intensive tests and biopsies to determine if and when they will undergo a bone marrow transplant.
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29.02.2008 - Northern Echo
A free event to raise awareness of stem cell research will be held in the region later this month. Health Editor Barry Nelson reports that stem cell therapy is already being used and discovers that the North-East is leading the way internationally FEW people realise that stem cell therapies are not science...
