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  • 07.07.2008 - Journal Live

    The Children's Champions

    We take a look at one of the best loved and busiest departments at the RVI: Maternity.

  • 23.06.2008 - News and Star

    Medics praised as 'miracle' baby goes from strength to strength

    Doctors feared the worst for baby Cameron Armstrong and gave him a mere 50 per cent chance of survival when he arrived 14 weeks early. Weighing just 2lb 1oz, the tot survived thanks to the dedication of medical staff at Carlisleâ s Cumberland Infirmary and the Royal Victoria Hospital in Newcastle.

  • 20.05.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle

    Baby tips the scales at more than 12lb

    BUMBER baby Charlie Robert Fenwick bounced into the world at a staggering 12lb 1oz. He became one of the biggest babies ever born in the North East and at just seven weeks is already the size of a three-month-old.

  • 21.04.2008 - Northeast Journal

    Premature Paige wins fight for life

    THIS weekend Tracy Ridley should have been giving birth to her second child. But instead her daughter Paige is three months old, having been born prematurely on January 17.

  • 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 patientsà ¢à  à  lives.

  • 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.

  • 23.01.2008 - Mail on Sunday

    Miracle baby makes medical history after she is saved by mechanical heart

    Abigail Hall was born with just one heart chamber - a normal healthy heart has two - and was put onto the transplant waiting list. But when a potential donor fell through and the three-year-old's condition deteriorated rapidly, her parents feared the worst.

  • 13.01.2008 - Article Attic Article Directory

    10th Anniversary Midwife of the Year winner announced

    online marketing Ten regional finalists, Mums, babies and guests had been invited to attend the award ceremony where the mother who has nominated the Midwife of the Year will receive 1000 and a further 1000 top up for their child's trust fund generously donated by the Royal Bank of Scotland.

  • 02.01.2008 - The Journal

    Today's News: A nappy New Year!

    AS the New Year celebrations were in full swing, some families were having an extra special start to 2008. Just minutes after the bells had sounded, the first baby born in the region in 2008 arrived and others followed just hours later.

  • 04.12.2007 - Mail on Sunday

    Lesbian couple celebrate first birthdays of their IVF quadruplets

    Quads Markus, Lucas, Harrison and Lara Miller-Snee will all turn one and their parents Emma Miller and Melanie Snee admit it's been a busy 12 months. The couple, from Houghton le Spring, County Durham, who have been together for more than a decade, were helped in their quest for a family with fertility...

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