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  • 12.11.2009 - One NorthEast

    Consumer giant stays cool with new R&D support

    Proctor & Gamble (P&G) will develop the next generation of more environmentally-friendly detergents at its Tyneside base as part of its ongoing global commitment to sustainable development. The company is carrying out a multi million pound research pro

  • 05.10.2009 - News & Star

    Baby heart surgery pioneer is now 18!

    A MARYPORT girl had more than one reason to celebrate her 18th birthday on Saturday. Title Author Copyright Description When Stephanie Easterbook, of Ellenfoot Drive, was only a few weeks old doctors told her mother Anita that she would not live unless she had

  • 02.10.2009 - BBC News Tyne

    Work begins on transplant centre

    Work is due to begin on a dedicated transplant centre in Tyneside, described as the first of its kind in the UK.

  • 02.10.2009 - Sunderland Echo

    Amazing Grace doing well after surgery

    Inspirational Grace Jones has defied the doctors after undergoing a major operation to correct a curvature in her spine.

  • 02.10.2009 - Journal Live

    Charlie Bear for Cancer Care spent up to £1m in past five years

    ONE of the region?s best-loved charities, which is supported by The Journal, has spent up to ?1m in the last five years to help people with cancer. Charlie Bear for Cancer Care has used its funds to purchase equipment for the Northern Centre for C

  • 30.09.2009 - Journal Live

    Charlie Bear is still raising cash

    The Journal is backing the Charlie Bear for Cancer Care charity, which has raised millions for those suffering the condition. Former reporter Avril Deane has played a pivotal role in the charity and she takes a fond look back at her time with the charity IN June this year a

  • 26.09.2009 - Journal Live

    The Journal launches NHS organ donor campaign

    Today The Journal launches a campaign to get people to sign up to the NHS organ donor list. HANNAH DAVIES speaks to a mother-of-three on what a transplant will mean for her Click here to register as an NHS organ donor online or telephone (0300) 123 23 23 ANGELA

  • 29.08.2009 - Journal Live

    Brother and sister tell of life-saving heart transplants

    A BROTHER and sister suffering the same heart condition have both had life-saving heart transplants. Claire Crozier, 33, was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy three years ago and doctors at Newcastle?s Freeman Hospital told the former fitness i

  • 11.08.2009 - Journal Live

    Heart swap op man's medals haul at UK Transplant Games

    SWAP op miracle man Kez Greenwood clutches his athletics medals ?- just a few months after being told he had 48 hours to live. Kez won both the shot put and discus events at the UK Transplant Games. He had suffered from cardiomyopathy ? a disease of the h

  • 31.07.2009 - BBC News West Yorkshire

    Heart transplant baby goes home

    A baby who was given only months to live unless she received a new heart has returned home after a transplant.

  • 24.06.2009 - Journal Live

    Brave Sarah recovers from second heart swap op

    The Journal MUSICAL theatre lover and double heart transplant patient Sarah Barton got a surprise curtain call at her hospital bed. The brave 12-year-old is recovering from a second heart swap operation at Newcastle?s Freeman Hospital. The teenager

  • 30.05.2009 - Chronicle Live

    Heart op youngsters meet

    Heart op youngsters Ellen, one, and Patrick, two-and-a-half, have met at home for the first time after undergoing lifesaving surgery. The pair live just a few streets apart in Whitley Bay and had their transplants within hours of each other in Newcastle's Freeman Hospital.

  • 21.04.2009 - The Sun

    One family... THREE heart transplants

    BUBBLY brother and sister Stephen and Rachael Moffat are a picture of health — after BOTH undergoing heart transplants.

  • 20.04.2009 - News & Star

    Tennis marathon for Carlisle brain tumour boy

    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

  • 13.03.2009 - BBC News

    Heart transplants for two babies

    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. Leukaemia s

  • 03.03.2009 - Chronicle Live

    Brave two-year-old faces hours of spinal surgery

    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. He was born with a range of serious health problems, including

  • 27.02.2009 - Journal Live

    Inspired by Sir Bobby to volunteer for trials

    1 2 next ? A MOTHER suffering from breast cancer is set to start clinical trials at Sir Bobby Robson?s new centre for research into the disease ? inspired by the former Newcastle manager. Sally Ann Fenwick, of Hexham, Northumberland, was diagnosed with th

  • 23.01.2009 - Mirror.co.uk

    I was dying before my transplant ..Mirror's campaign saves lives

    EXCLUSIVE LOUISE'S FRESH APPEAL AFTER DOUBLE LUNG OP Louise Lawrence had just about given up hope. After a year waiting for the double lung transplant she needed to save her life, her health was fading fast. Hooked up to an oxygen supply,

  • 21.01.2009 - BBC News England

    Hirst boosts Sir Bobby's charity

    Internationally-renowned artist Damien Hirst has leant his support to Sir Bobby Robson's cancer charity.

  • 15.01.2009 - Yorkshire Post

    Transplant survivor Hannah's all heart

    SITTING an exam on your 21st birthday wouldn't be most people's idea of fun.

  • 14.01.2009 - Hull and East Riding

    Heart transplant girl reaches 21st

    , 06:30 Comment on this story Brave heart transplant survivor Hannah Pudsey is marking another happy milestone by celebrating her 21st birthday today. As a 13-year-old, Hannah was given just six months to live without the life-saving surgery. Hannah, of Naff

  • 08.01.2009 - Chronicle Live

    Sir Chris Hoy backs Chronicle Maggie's appeal

    OLYMPIC cycling hero Sir Chris Hoy is backing an endurance event for Maggie?s Cancer Caring Centres. The three-times gold medallist at the Beijing Olympics said people should take up the challenge of the Monster Bike and Hike event, which takes place from M

  • 08.01.2009 - The Whitehaven News

    New lease of life for brave Katelyn

    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. The worst ? because Katelyn McAleavy had to undergo a third life-s

  • 07.01.2009 - Chronicle Live

    Dad undergoes kidney transplant to save daughter

    DAD Matty Irving is to save his daughter with the gift of life. Alison Brown, 26, needs a transplant after her kidneys were damaged following a series of undetected urine infections when she was a child. At the age of 13 she was found to have scarring on bot

  • 27.12.2008 - Journal Live

    Sir Bobby to reach goal as centre opens up

    IT MAY look like another building site ? but an empty shell on the outskirts of Newcastle is a sign of hope for thousands of families across the North East. Within weeks, patients will start walking through the doors of the new cancer trials research centre at the Fre

  • 17.12.2008 - Chronicle Live

    Newcastle United players visit kids in hospital

    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. Newcastle United players, including Mark Viduka, Nicky Butt, Obafemi

  • 11.12.2008 - Chronicle Live

    Heart transplant toddler's family celebrating

    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. Just last year, Martha?s family was told she had only a few hours lef

  • 05.12.2008 - 24Dash.com

    Top national award for Newcastle hospital building

    Top national award for Newcastle hospital building A new ?80 million world class centre for cancer care and renal services has won a prestigious national design award ? even before it has fully opened its doors to patients. The Northern Centre for Ca

  • 02.12.2008 - News & Star

    Brother and sister are well after transplant

    THE Cumbrian brother and sister who took part in a kidney transplant are both doing well. Taking each day as it come: Ian Morrison with his sister Fiona Wood before they went in to hospital Fiona Wood flew 4,000 miles from her new home in America to give her brot

  • 09.11.2008 - Mirror.co.uk

    Donor flies 4,000 miles to give kidney to brother for Christmas

    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. Great-grandad Ian, 62, who has been ill for 30 y

  • 02.11.2008 - Mail Online

    Hitting the £1million mark is one of my greatest achievements

    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. Sir Bobby, currently fighting cancer for the fifth time, was joined by Sir Al

  • 24.10.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle

    Hospitals winning fight against deadly superbug

    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 ??? with 115 cases compared to 96. County Durham and Darli

  • 21.10.2008 - Mail Online UK

    I've got a tiny satellite dish behind my ear to help me hear

    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 tel

  • 20.10.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle

    Maggie's Appeal News: Great North Run boosts Maggie's Centre appeal

    SCORES did the run of their lives to raise more than ??27,000 for our Maggie???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 earli

  • 20.10.2008 - Yorkshire Post

    Lung transplant has given me a second chance

    EARLIER this year 29-year-old Louise Taylor was facing up to the reality that she might only live for another year.

  • 27.09.2008 - Sunderland Echo

    Transplant joy for Micah after three years

    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.But today he told how his life is back on track, declaring: 'This operation

  • 24.09.2008 - BBC

    Kidney swap husband to come home

    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.Philip Green, 33, from Redcar, has had kidney problems for years and was in need of a life-saving tra

  • 20.09.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle

    Husband saved wife by giving her his kidney

    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. Andy and Kirsty discovered they were the right match, in more ways than one, wh

  • 17.09.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle

    Today's Chronicle: New transplant unit to save thousands of lives

    TWICE as many swap-ops are set to be carried out on Tyneside, making it Europe???s transplant capital. Newcastle???s Freeman Hospital will become a world leader if designs for a ??26m Institute of Transplantation are given the go-ahead t

  • 16.09.2008 - BBC News Tees

    Couple in anniversary kidney swap

    A Teesside woman has given her husband a very special 10th wedding anniversary gift - one of her kidneys.

  • 15.09.2008 - Shields Gazette

    Heart-op Will's joy at starting school

    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. Surgeo

  • 30.08.2008 - Yorkshire Post

    Leon enjoys first birthday – his life saved by machine

    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.

  • 27.08.2008 - Sunderland Echo

    Heart op Sam is living life to the full

    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 ?????? the first when he was just a day old ?????? to correct a heart defect and doctors expect to perfo

  • 15.08.2008 - The Standard

    Arthritis cure hope in a single shot

    A single injection to cure rheumatoid arthritis could be available within five years. The treatment, being developed by British scientists, works like a vaccine. Cells are taken from the body, altered, and then injected back into the affected joint. A team at Newcastle University will test the vacci

  • 13.08.2008 - Telegraph

    One injection cure for arthritis within five years

    Rheumatoid arthritis is difficult to treat because it is caused by a malfunctioning immune system Photo: PAUL GROVER The treatment works like a vaccine and could be available within five years. Cells would be taken from the body, altered, and injected ba

  • 06.08.2008 - BBC

    Heart baby due to leave hospital

    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. Theo Davis from Cumbria, who has hypoplastic left heart syndrome, had five operations to keep him alive while he waited fo

  • 29.07.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle

    Cancer nurse takes on special role in Newcastle

    Macmillan Cancer Support has funded a new head and neck cancer nurse specialist. Health Reporter HELEN RAE finds out more. A NURSE has been appointed to offer expertise to those living with cancer in the region. Macmillan Cancer Support has employed new head

  • 29.07.2008 - Sunderland Echo

    Emma now 'just like any other little girl'

    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.Now, the anxious parents of the 15-month

  • 23.07.2008 - News & Star

    ‘Miracle’ recovery for heart op baby

    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. Theo Giles Davies But the tiny youngster, who turned one last week, has battled hard to stay alive an

  • 18.07.2008 - Garstang Courier

    Poorly Jessica fights back

    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 Newca

  • 09.07.2008 - BBC

    Baby surviving off life support

    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.Theo Davis, from Keswick, Cumbria, has hyperplastic left heart syndrome, which means he was born with half a

  • 01.07.2008 - BBC

    Surgeon backs heart donor appeal

    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. The one-year-old from Keswick has undergone five operations and is

  • 27.06.2008 - Lancaster Guardian

    Plea to find Wigan tot a heart

    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. ' We took her to see a doctor and he said she had got a chest infection that had got in

  • 19.06.2008 - Daily Record

    I Was Planning My Funeral ..now I Have Got A New Life

    Donor Card Campaigner Shelley Enjoys A Makeover After Transplant Proves A Success FOR Shelley White it's more than just a makeover-it's a perfect celebration of her new life. The 25-year-old Scot was treated to a shopping spree and luxury pampering s

  • 18.06.2008 - Northern Echo

    friends get new hearts only days apart

    TWO heart patients from the same North-East town have undergone live-saving transplants within two days of each other. Simon Ripley, 24, from Lowther Drive, Darlington, met Natasha Whitfield, 21, from Pierremont Road, Darlington at the Freeman hospital, in Newca

  • 11.06.2008 - Hartlepool Mail

    A breath of fresh air

    BY the time the average person is 70, they will have taken at least 600 million breaths. But what happens when your breathing goes wrong? Who is there to help? A newly formed group in Hartlepool called Breathe Easy is one answer. CHRIS CORDNER met the team. A FLEDGLING group is fast becomin

  • 11.06.2008 - Northern Echo

    Little fighter comes home

    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

  • 03.06.2008 - Newcastle University

    Newcastle Rheumatologist Receives Award for Services to Patients

    Professor John Isaacs of Newcastle University and consultant rheumatologist at the Freeman Hospital is being honoured for his work with patients living with Rheumatoid Arthritis. John Isaacs, will today be presented with a Healthcar

  • 02.06.2008 - Northeast Journal

    Help give the children a bit of breathing space

    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 children???s breathing problems, the Puffin Appeal is aiming to raise

  • 02.06.2008 - Sunderland Echo

    Little fighter who beat the odds

    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.Bethany was born on June 21, 1998, weighing just 3lb 5oz by emergency Caesarean section after a t

  • 28.05.2008 - Northampton Evening Telegraph

    Heart op Jack will be parents' pageboy

    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.Now his parents, Terry Vellam and Danielle Has

  • 26.05.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle

    Pacemaker will save three-year-old Alec's life

    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. T

  • 23.05.2008 - Sheffield Star

    GIFT OF LIFE: Andy leads life to the full after transplant

    ANDY Trevaskus holds open his front door with a big, beaming smile. He looks much younger, fitter, healthier and slimmer than when we first met four months ago.Back in January, the dad-of-three, from Wath-on-Dearne, was in a terrible situation - ma

  • 11.05.2008 - Mail on Sunday

    The 18-year-old girl who has had three hearts

    But she is also a medical miracle, and lucky to be alive. In her short life Leanne has had no fewer than three hearts - the one she was born with and not one, but two transplanted hearts. Scroll down for more... Looking to the future: Leanne Nicholson, with her Pomera

  • 11.05.2008 - Shetland Times

    New lease of life and all set

    Marion Wiseman prepares for her marathon cycle. Photo: Keith MorrisonA WOMAN who was at death's door six months ago is cycling a marathon distance later this month.Marion Wiseman, 47, from Tingwall, is celebrating being alive after having a double lung transplant in November

  • 25.04.2008 - Sunderland Echo

    Heart-swap Kaylee's birthday milestone

    A big party will be held tomorrow to celebrate the 21st birthday of Kaylee Davidson, who became Britain's youngest heart transplant patient at the age of just five months. The Northern Transplant Charity Ball will be held two days before Kaylee's actual birthday.

  • 24.04.2008 - Gazette Live

    Life is blossoming for Ingleby Barwick girl who had a heart of an 80-year-old

    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. Instead of pumping away strongly, her heart was flu

  • 21.04.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle

    Your Health: Meet the true heroes of our health service

    : 4:18pm Visit our other sites: // linkTargets new linkTargets[0] linkTargets[1] linkTargets[2] linkTargets[3] linkTargets[4] linkTargets[5] // Get involved... RSS for you Meet the true heroes of our health service by Jane Picken, Evening Chro

  • 14.04.2008 - BBC News Tyne

    Sir Bobby charity raises £250,000

    Sir Bobby Robson has hit the halfway mark in his quest to raise £500,000 for his cancer charity.

  • 14.04.2008 - Newcastle United FC

    Sir Bobby Charity Dinner @ SJP

    SIR Bobby Robson will be at St.James' Park next month for a special charity dinner in aid of his cancer foundation. The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation was set up in March and has already raised more than half of the 500,000 target set by the former Newcastle United manager. And fundr

  • 07.04.2008 - Chronicle Live

    I was focused on what I could do to help my daughter hear

    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. But up until May last y

  • 02.04.2008 - BBC

    Sir Bobby joy at charity support

    More fundraising events are plannedFormer England manager Sir Bobby Robson says he has been 'overwhelmed' with the level of donations flooding into a new cancer charity. More than 150,000 was given to the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation in the first week after its launch. The 7

  • 02.04.2008 - Hartlepool Mail

    'Miracle op' saved our Kai

    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. But it was a different story 18 months ago, when he was born with the arteries in his heart the wrong way around. T

  • 01.04.2008 - Sunderland Echo

    Big day for heart op tot Kai

    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 bi

  • 27.03.2008 - Northeast Journal

    Proud to have Sir Bobby on her team

    Sir Bobby Robson has launched a ????????500,000 cancer fundraising mission in thanks to Newcastle doctor Ruth Plummer for saving his life. Chief reporter Paul James meets the future director of the football legend????????????s cancer research centre. EIGHTEEN years

  • 26.03.2008 - Telegraph

    Boy whose blood flowed the wrong way

    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. Alec Hutchinson, of Dipton, County Durham, was born with the rare condition that limited the supply of oxygen to

  • 26.03.2008 - The Times

    North East unites behind Robson

    there was a knock at Sir Bobby Robson's door. A stranger was standing outside his Co Durham house clutching a brown envelope. My first thought: football agent, he said, with a familiar chuckle yesterday, and the package in question did, indeed, contain money. In used notes a

  • 25.03.2008 - BBC

    Surgery joy for heart reverse boy

    The condition meant Alec had little chance of survivalA three-year-old County Durham boy born with a 'back to front' heart has made a full recovery after undergoing a complex eight-hour operation. Alec Hutchison suffered from congenitally corrected transposition, wh

  • 25.03.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle

    Boy with a backward heart saved by major op

    HEART surgeons have carried out an operation for the first time to save a boy of three. Alec Hutchinson was born with a condition which meant the blood vessels in his heart were ????????????plumbed in???????????? back to front. The abnormality, congenitally corr

  • 25.03.2008 - Express.co.uk

    SIR BOBBY TO TACKLE CANCER CARE

    Sir Bobby Robson has got the better of many football opponents during his distinguished career and now he has set himself a major new goal - to fight cancer. Currently battling with the disease himself for a fifth time, the 75-year-old former England and Newcastle United FC

  • 24.03.2008 - Northern Echo

    Heart transplant girl reveals birthday wish

    A NORTH-EAST girl who made medical history is urging people to make her 21st birthday a fundraising bonanza for transplant charities. Kaylee Davidson, from Houghton-le-Spring, Wearside, made the headlines two decades ago when she become the first child in t

  • 22.03.2008 - Sheffield Star

    Transplant Dad's relief

    A DESPERATELY ill South Yorkshire dad who would have died without a transplant has received the gift of life - just weeks after a Star campaign highlighted his plight. Father-of-three Andy Trevaskus, aged 45, of Wath-on-Dearne, was told in May he had just a year to live unless he rec

  • 22.03.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle

    Actor backs our cancer centre campaign

    by Helen Rae, Evening Chronicle ACTOR Greg Wise is backing our Maggie????????????s Cancer Caring Centre Campaign. We teamed up with charity Maggie????????????s to give a massive boost to cancer patients in the North East. We are appealing to readers to help raise ?

  • 22.03.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle

    Implant ends five years of silence for boy

    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. But now a special implant has been put into his ear so he can join his brothers and sister a

  • 19.03.2008 - Sunderland Echo

    Fund-raising ball to celebrate milestone

    April 26, - two days before her birthday.Kaylee became an inspiration for all transplant patients when she made medical history at the age of five months by becoming Britain's youngest successful heart transplant baby.Now one of the longest-surviving heart tr

  • 18.03.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle

    Weird science

    by Jane Picken, Evening Chronicle From cowskin and horse blood to Viagra and yoghurt, medics on Tyneside are using weird and wonderful things to save patients???????????? lives. Health reporter Jane Picken finds out more. AS A severely premature baby clinging on to life, little Lewis Good

  • 15.03.2008 - Gazette Live

    Heart op James aims to be Boro mascot

    ALMOST nine years after undergoing a lifesaving operation to mend his broken heart, James Wilkes is fighting fit. The schoolboy was born with transposition of the greater vessels, which means his large heart arteries were the wrong way round. It is a congenital malform

  • 14.03.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle

    Sports champ gives prize cash to medics

    GRASSROOTS sports champion Norman Close is thanking the specialist medics who saved his life and wife Elsies heart. The boxing coach and official, from Gosforth, Newcastle, is donating prize money from a recent award to the heart surgery team at Newcastles Freeman

  • 14.03.2008 - Northern Echo

    The hearts on wheels that are saving lives

    A North-East hospital is pioneering the use of a portable artificial heart. Health Editor Barry Nelson reports IMAGINE lugging your own beating heart around with you on what looks like a small suitcase on wheels. Sounds frightening, like something out of science

  • 13.03.2008 - Edinburgh Evening News

    Gill fronts TV organ-donor drive to save lives

    WHEN Gill Hollis went to see a consultant four years ago she told him she didn't think she would see another Christmas. The investment banker had gone from being sporty and adventurous to virtually housebound because of a lung disease. But ? after a lifesavin

  • 11.03.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle

    Little fighters getting stronger by the minute

    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 be

  • 29.02.2008 - Telegraph

    Girl's second heart swap in five years

    A teenage girl is recovering after undergoing her second heart transplant in just over five years. Leanne Nicholson, 18, was left fighting for her life in the intensive care unit at Newcastle Freeman Hospital after her first transplanted heart failed last month. But

  • 28.02.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle

    My life's been saved twice

    WONDER girl Leanne Nicholson is on the mend after her second heart swap-op. For the second time in just over five years, surgeons performed the major operation after her first transplant heart failed last month. The 18-year-old was left fighting for life in Newcastle Freeman Hos

  • 22.02.2008 - icnewcastle.icnetwork

    Young heart patient is an inspiration

    TO LOOK at smiling Demi Barber it is hard to believe she has a debilitating heart condition. But the simple task of walking a few hundred metres or playing with her friends gets the three-year-old out of breath and in need of a rest. Demi, of Heaton Terrace, North Shie

  • 18.02.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle

    Your Health: Life is sweet thanks to a new diabetes treatment

    Diabetes is a debilitating and often dangerous condition, but thanks to a new treatment the risk of low blood sugar is being minimised. Health reporter JANE PICKEN spoke to one Tyneside patient about its benefits MUM-of-two Tracy Halpins life c

  • 16.02.2008 - BBC

    Sir Bobby in cancer cash pledge

    Sir Bobby has been treated for cancer four timesFootball legend Sir Bobby Robson has pledged to devote his time to helping in the fight against cancer. The former Newcastle and England manager, who was first diagnosed with the disease in 1991, plans to raise 500,000 for the ne

  • 15.02.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle

    Newcastle United News: I want to do something for future sufferers like myself

    by John Gibson, Evening Chronicle FIVE times Bobby Robson has confronted the gnawing fear of cancer - and five times he has beaten it. And today, as this remarkable man prepares to celebrate his 75th birthday, he reveals how he is

  • 15.02.2008 - Gazette Live

    Award for "one in a million" girl

    Award for "one in a million" girl Posted by Julie - Administrator on December 12, 2006 10:50 AM TEESSIDE'S "one in a million" girl Yasmin Senior has been honoured for her determination and bravery. The 12-year-old has endured years of operations and artificial limbs after b

  • 12.02.2008 - IC North East

    Diabetics given hope

    PATIENTS in the North East could be at the forefront of a new treatment offering hope for hundreds of diabetes sufferers. Six centres around the country, including the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, will receive NHS funding to develop the ground-breaking technique for people wit

  • 08.02.2008 - Gazette Live

    Little Tees heart op girl’s amazing story

    THERE are no words to describe the feeling of holding your child for the first time. So spare a thought for Julie and Neil McCutcheon, who had to face up to the fact that their new-born baby was seriously ill with a heart defect. Little Maisie Mai was born with the tw

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