News about... Freeman Hospital
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09.11.2008 - The Mirror
A woman is flying 4,000 miles to give the gift of a lifetime to her brother for Christmas. Fiona Wood jets in from the US today to donate one of her kidneys to Ian Morrison - whose own have packed up.
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01.11.2008 - Daily Mail
Sir Bobby Robson last night hailed his efforts to raise £1million for cancer research as a bigger achievement than reaching the World Cup semi-finals with England.
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24.10.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
NEW figures show cases of the hospital superbug Clostridium diff-icile have fallen in the region in the last six months. But despite the overall drop, Northumberland NHS Foundation Trust saw a rise â with 115 cases compared to 96.
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21.10.2008 - Mail Online UK
Every year, around 10,000 Britons go deaf in one ear as a result of nerve damage. Conventional hearing aids, which amplify sound, cannot help. Christopher Burn, 61, a parking enforcement officer from Gateshead, underwent a new procedure, as he tells Thea Jordan.
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20.10.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
SCORES did the run of their lives to raise more than £27,000 for our Maggieâ s Centre Campaign. More than 100 people - including a team from Newcastle Building Society - donned their running shoes to take part in the Great North Run earlier this month.
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20.10.2008 - Yorkshire Today
EARLIER this year 29-year-old Louise Taylor was facing up to the reality that she might only live for another year.
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27.09.2008 - Sunderland Echo
The Sunderland University student, pictured, was forced to give up his studies, spending most of his days attached to a dialysis machine as he waited for a suitable kidney donor to be found.
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23.09.2008 - BBC
Philip Green's new kidney is working 'fantastically'A Teesside man who received a new kidney from his wife on their 10th wedding anniversary is making a fantastic recovery.
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20.09.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
THEY share a bond that nobody can break. Andy Brown proved to his wife that he would be with her in sickness and in health when he made the ultimate sacrifice and risked his life to save hers.
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17.09.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
TWICE as many swap-ops are set to be carried out on Tyneside, making it Europeâ s transplant capital. Newcastleâ s Freeman Hospital will become a world leader if designs for a £26m Institute of Transplantation are given the go-ahead this month.
