News about... Care for Younger People
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15.11.2008 - Journal Live
IT is a memorable moment in any mothers 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 Newcastles 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 Childrens 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 - 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 Today
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.
