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12.11.2009 - One NorthEast
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.
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05.10.2009 - News & Star
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 a life-saving operation to switch her main...
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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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01.10.2009 - Journal Live
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 Cancer Care (NCCC) at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital.
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29.09.2009 - Journal Live
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 at an uplifting wartime...
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26.09.2009 - Journal Live
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 Bernardelli is a slight woman in her early 40s.
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29.08.2009 - Journal Live
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 instructor that only a new heart would save her.
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11.08.2009 - Journal Live
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.
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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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24.06.2009 - Journal Live
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.
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30.05.2009 - Chronicle Live
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.
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21.04.2009 - The Sun
BUBBLY brother and sister Stephen and Rachael Moffat are a picture of health after BOTH undergoing heart transplants.
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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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27.02.2009 - Journal Live
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.
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23.01.2009 - Mirror.co.uk
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.
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21.01.2009 - BBC News England
Internationally-renowned artist Damien Hirst has leant his support to Sir Bobby Robson's cancer charity.
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15.01.2009 - Yorkshire Post
SITTING an exam on your 21st birthday wouldn't be most people's idea of fun.
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14.01.2009 - This is Hull and East Riding.co.uk
, 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.
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08.01.2009 - Chronicle Live
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 May 2-3.
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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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07.01.2009 - Chronicle Live
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.
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27.12.2008 - Journal Live
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.
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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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05.12.2008 - 24Dash.com
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.
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02.12.2008 - News & Star
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 brother Ian Morrison one of her kidneys after he...
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09.11.2008 - Mirror.co.uk
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 Post
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.
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15.09.2008 - BBC News Tees
A Teesside woman has given her husband a very special 10th wedding anniversary gift - one of her kidneys.
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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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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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14.08.2008 - The Standard
A single injection to cure rheumatoid arthritis could be available within five years. The treatment, being developed by British scientists, works like a vaccine.
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13.08.2008 - Telegraph
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.
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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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29.07.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
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.
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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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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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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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19.06.2008 - Daily Record
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.
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18.06.2008 - Northern Echo
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 Newcastle.
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11.06.2008 - Hartlepool Mail
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.
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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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03.06.2008 - Newcastle University
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.
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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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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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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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23.05.2008 - Sheffield Star
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.
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11.05.2008 - Mail on Sunday
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.
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10.05.2008 - Shetland Times
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.
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25.04.2008 - Sunderland Echo
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.
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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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21.04.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
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14.04.2008 - BBC News Tyne
Sir Bobby Robson has hit the halfway mark in his quest to raise £500,000 for his cancer charity.
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14.04.2008 - Newcastle United FC
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.
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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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02.04.2008 - BBC
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.
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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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27.03.2008 - Northeast Journal
Sir Bobby Robson has launched a à  à £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 legendà ¢à  à  s cancer research centre.
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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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26.03.2008 - The Times
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.
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25.03.2008 - BBC
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.
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25.03.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
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 à ¢à  à  plumbed inà ¢à  à  back to front.
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25.03.2008 - Daily Express
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.
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24.03.2008 - Northern Echo
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 the UK to have a successful heart transplant.
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22.03.2008 - Sheffield Star
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.
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22.03.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
by Helen Rae, Evening Chronicle ACTOR Greg Wise is backing our Maggieà ¢à  à  s Cancer Caring Centre Campaign. We teamed up with charity Maggieà ¢à  à  s to give a massive boost to cancer patients in the North East.
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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 - Sunderland Echo
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.
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18.03.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
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 patientsà ¢à  à  lives.
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15.03.2008 - Gazette Live
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.
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14.03.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
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 Hospital.
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14.03.2008 - Northern Echo
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.
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13.03.2008 - Edinburgh Evening News
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.
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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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29.02.2008 - Telegraph
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.
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28.02.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
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.
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22.02.2008 - icnewcastle.icnetwork
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.
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18.02.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
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 could hardly be sweeter right now, thanks to a tiny machine which..
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16.02.2008 - BBC
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.
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15.02.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
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 putting others first and plans to fundraise on behalf of fellow sufferers.
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15.02.2008 - Gazette Live
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.
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12.02.2008 - IC North East
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 with Type 1 diabetes.
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08.02.2008 - Gazette Live.co.uk
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.
