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24.12.2009 - Chronicle Live
BEHIND little Jack Sundin?s cheeky smile lies a tale of Christmas courage.
The youngster is excitedly looking forward to Santa?s presents after battling through life-saving surgery on his spine.
He had a hole in the heart and defective valves ? and a rare de
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24.12.2009 - Chronicle Live
CHRISTMAS angels Patrick Skinner and Ellen Walsh are the only presents their parents want after they defied the odds to be here.
And as they shake their Christmas presents under the tree, it's hard to believe they were battling for life after undergoing heart tra
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23.12.2009 - Yahoo! News UK & Ireland
The mother of a seriously ill three-year-old has made an impassioned appeal for her son to get the heart transplant he so desperately needs.
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13.12.2009 - Sunday Sun
A DAY at a time heart-transplant baby Ted Parks takes tiny steps towards recovery.
The tough youngster, nicknamed Super Ted after battling back from a stopped heart three times, received his life-saving transplant last week.
His stunned parents said they
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07.12.2009 - Journal Live
THIS time two years ago it looked as if Victoria Moore would never celebrate Christmas again.
She and her family were left grief-stricken when the mother-of-five was diagnosed with a deadly heart virus and told by doctors to say her goodbyes to loved on
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06.11.2009 - The Shields Gazette
A BRAVE mum who faces an agonising wait for a heart transplant dreams of seeing her son grow up.
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28.10.2009 - The Whitehaven News
BORN with a serious heart condition, Connor Mason had to undergo lifesaving open heart surgery at just 11 days old.
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12.10.2009 - News & Star
A CANCER survivor who lost an eye and had to have a heart transplant will today meet the doctors who saved his life.
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05.10.2009 - News & Star
A MARYPORT girl had more than one reason to celebrate her 18th birthday on Saturday.
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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
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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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28.09.2009 - Journal Live
As a world-leading centre for cancer patients opens in the North East, health correspondent Helen Rae gets an exclusive look around.
FROM the outside its impressive entrance looks more like a exclusive hotel than a life-saving centre.
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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
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15.09.2009 - Gazette Live
HEART transplant survivor Susie Wood has completed a challenging six-day trek across Iceland five years after her lifesaving surgery.
Susie took on 42 miles of difficult terrain to raise more than ?2,700 for The Freeman Heart and Lung Tr
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08.09.2009 - Yorkshire Post
Gabrysia Filarowski is full of energy and back home in Leeds – but still faces a wait to see if her latest treatment is working.
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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 i
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23.08.2009 - Sunday Sun
MIRACLE man Graeme Appleby was told by doctors he only had two weeks to live . . . yet today he?s a fighting fit sporting hero.
The former agricultural engineer, 51, has returned from the British Transplant Games clutching a bronze medal in the team volleyball ev
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12.08.2009 - Yorkshire Post
Fifteen years ago, Lynda Morrison under went a heart transplant when she was seven. Without the transplant she would have died from cardiomyopathy.
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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.
He had suffered from cardiomyopathy ? a disease of the h
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31.07.2009 - 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
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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
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11.06.2009 - The Shields Gazette
JAMIE Hall is back in the saddle and looking to the future after a life-saving heart transplant.
Just six weeks ago, the 21-year-old was given the new heart in a major operation ? but he's already back home and living life to the full.
"I feel much better," said Jamie. "I st
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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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19.05.2009 - BBC News
A baby who may only have months to live unless she gets a new heart has been put top of Britain's transplant list in Newcastle
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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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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.
He was born with a range of serious health problems, including
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26.02.2009 - Gazette Live
A BUG-FREE bubble will be brave tot Henry Valks' survival pod after a last-ditch bone marrow transplant to save his life.
The three-year-old suffering from leukaemia will be cocooned safe in a sterile world behind a glass screen.
He could stay there for six w
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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.
Hooked up to an oxygen supply,
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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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19.01.2009 - Journal Live
A SINGER whose family has been stuck twice by cancer is belting out support for Sir Bobby Robson?s fundraising drive.
Andrew Kerry?s mother Norah died from cancer of the oesophagus eight years ago and since then he and his family have raised nearly ?30,000 to he
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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 - Hull and East Riding
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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
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08.01.2009 - The Whitehaven News
IT was both the best and worst of Christmases for one Whitehaven family.
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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
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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.
At the age of 13 she was found to have scarring on bot
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26.12.2008 - Hartlepool Today
A YOUNGSTER is having the best Christmas ever after getting a new kidney in a life-saving operation.
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20.12.2008 - Sunday Sun
YOUNG mum Michelle Beynon has seen her Christmas wish come true . . . she can finally give her fragile tot a tender kiss.
It?s only natural for a mum to give her child a peck on the cheek, but Michelle has had to resist the simple gesture for months because any intimate physical
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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.
Just last year, Martha?s family was told she had only a few hours lef
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10.12.2008 - Journal Live
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ANDREW Gilmore would spend 20 hours a day in bed as Parkinson?s tore his life apart ? today his amazing recovery gives hope to all sufferers.
The businessman is back on his feet and back in charge of his central heating firm, three years after feari
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09.12.2008 - Mail Online
A child's first words are memorable for any parent. But when Daniel Sewell said 'mama' for the first time, his parents had more reason than most to rejoice.
Just 12 weeks earlier, their then 19-month-old son had undergone pioneering surg
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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 brot
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15.11.2008 - Journal Live
IT is a memorable moment in any mother?s 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.
For Daniel was given a ?new? tongue during pioneering surgery for mouth cancer at Newcastle?
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15.11.2008 - The Sun
BATTLING Chloe Wilson is dwarfed by her cuddly toy after being born at TWENTY-THREE weeks. The 1lb 2oz miracle whose tragic twin Ellie died came into the world just days older than the youngest-ever surviving premature baby. Medics held out little hope after mum Michelle gave b
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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.
Great-grandad Ian, 62, who has been ill for 30 y
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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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15.10.2008 - Sunderland Echo
A heart patient who was given a transplant after being told he had just two weeks to live has urged others to join the donor list. The family of Stephen Cranson ?????? who was born with a hole in his heart ?????? prepared for the worst when doctors broke the news in June la
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TWENTY one years ago, she made medical history as the first baby to survive a heart transplant. Today Kaylee Davidson knows just how special she is, not only to her family, but to the thousands of other transplant youngsters across the world she has given h
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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.But today he told how his life is back on track, declaring: 'This operation
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24.09.2008 - 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.Philip Green, 33, from Redcar, has had kidney problems for years and was in need of a life-saving tra
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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. Andy and Kirsty discovered they were the right match, in more ways than one, wh
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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 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
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16.09.2008 - 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. Surgeo
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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 hospita
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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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28.08.2008 - The Northern Echo
A LEADING eye specialist has praised health bosses for investment that means North- East patients have been the first in the country to get sight-saving treatment.
This week, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) rec
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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 ?????? the first when he was just a day old ?????? to correct a heart defect and doctors expect to perfo
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15.08.2008 - Sunderland Echo
Two years ago Kenzi Quinn was on an operating table at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary, having a life-saving kidney transplant.Now the six-year-old is going from strength to strength, winning two gold medals and one silver at her first British Transplant Games.Mum
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06.08.2008 - 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. Theo Davis from Cumbria, who has hypoplastic left heart syndrome, had five operations to keep him alive while he waited fo
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05.08.2008 - Times Online
A newborn baby was saved from kidney failure after a paediatrician built a dialysis machine for her in his garage.
Millie Kelly was given little chance of surviving her first weeks when she suffered kidney failure after a lifesaving operation.
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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. Macmillan Cancer Support has employed new head
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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.Now, the anxious parents of the 15-month
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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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But the tiny youngster, who turned one last week, has battled hard to stay alive an
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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 Newca
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13.07.2008 - Sunday Sun
?ANGELS on earth? is how the staff on Newcastle General Hospital?s Ward 24 were described by their nominator.
Consultant Juliet Hale proudly picked up the award on behalf of her team that treats children and teenagers with cancer, in particular t
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10.07.2008 - Sunderland Echo
A Newcastle NHS trust has been praised for having better than expected survival rates among patients who have had major surgery. Newca
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10.07.2008 - BBC
A seven-year-old boy with a rare genetic illness is returning home almost nine months after a life-saving bone marrow transplant.Rhys Harris of Newbridge, south Wales, was diagnosed with an incurable genetic disease called Nemo when aged three. He lived in isolation in a s
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10.07.2008 - Daily Record
IMAGINE your life depended on someone's death. It's like that for more than 7600 people in Britain who are waiting for a transplant to transform their health. The vast majority of the Scottish population support organ donation, but not enough people are com
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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.Theo Davis, from Keswick, Cumbria, has hyperplastic left heart syndrome, which means he was born with half a
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08.07.2008 - UK Transplant
The 18th National Transplant Week 2008 started on Sunday 6 July 2008 - find out more about what is happening here.
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08.07.2008 - Northeast Journal
THE family of a little girl who suffers from a rare genetic disorder has launched a fundraising campaign in a bid to find a cure for her condition. Toddler Emily Kate Jackson is playful and adventurous, but just weeks ago she was airlifted to intensive care battling through a two hour ep
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07.07.2008 - Northeast Journal
HEART problems affect a huge proportion of the population. Innovative techniques are giving our patients a fighting chance. THE Freeman Hospital is known around the world as a leading heart and lung centre and is the only unit in the UK able to meet the needs of both adults a
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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. The one-year-old from Keswick has undergone five operations and is
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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. ' We took her to see a doctor and he said she had got a chest infection that had got in
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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.
The 25-year-old Scot was treated to a shopping spree and luxury pampering s
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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 Newca
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17.06.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
A North East student nurse has shared her transplant experiences with US youngsters. Health Reporter HELEN RAE finds out more A NURSING student who underwent a successful kidney transplant as a child proved she was an inspiration for young transplant patients all over t
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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. CHRIS CORDNER met the team. A FLEDGLING group is fast becomin
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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
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05.06.2008 - BBC News Wales
Doctors treating a seven-year-old boy with a rare genetic illness say they are pleased with his progress.
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04.06.2008 - Sky News
A seven-year-old boy who has spent two months in an airtight 'bubble' is going home at last. Rhys Harris: A changed boy Rhys Harris has been suffering from a rare killer illness called Nauclear Encoding Essential Modulator - or Nemo for s
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03.06.2008 - Mail on Sunday
Young Rhys Harris is the first child in Britain to be cured of a rare illness that should have killed him - thanks to space-age medical technology. The brave seven-year-old suffered from the rare genetic disease called
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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.Bethany was born on June 21, 1998, weighing just 3lb 5oz by emergency Caesarean section after a t
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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.Now his parents, Terry Vellam and Danielle Has
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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. T
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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.Back in January, the dad-of-three, from Wath-on-Dearne, was in a terrible situation - ma
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14.05.2008 - Sunderland Echo
Rebecca Redman was moved to organise the night at the Londonderry pub in Sunderland after hearing about the plight of little Martha Anderson.The tot was just nine months old when she started to have breathing difficulties and was taken into hospital.Specialists found she h
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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. Scroll down for more... Looking to the future: Leanne Nicholson, with her Pomera
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11.05.2008 - 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.Marion Wiseman, 47, from Tingwall, is celebrating being alive after having a double lung transplant in November
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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. The Northern Transplant Charity Ball will be held two days before Kaylee's actual birthday.
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25.04.2008 - Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust
Staff at the Freeman Hospital celebrated their 50th successful total ankle replacement operation in January of this year.
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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. Instead of pumping away strongly, her heart was flu
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21.04.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
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21.04.2008 - Newcastle Evening Chronicle
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21.04.2008 - Sunderland Echo
Liam Seymour planted a well-deserved kiss on the cheek of sister Stephanie after she gave him the gift of life.
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10.04.2008 - Chronicle Live
:: To read Jack's online diary click here
IT?S the day Jack Close has been waiting for.
After spending six weeks in isolation following a bone marrow transplant, he has now been allowed to step outside.
For the first time after his operation, plucky Jack has taken a
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08.04.2008 - BBC
Alice waited four years for a kidney transplantA seven-year-old Teesside girl who waited four years for a life-saving kidney transplant is out of intensive care, her father has said. Doctors at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary carried out the surgery on Alice Skinn
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07.04.2008 - Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
County Durham man has pioneering reconstructive hand surgery at the Royal Victoria Infirmary.
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05.04.2008 - Hartlepool Today
BRAVE Alice Skinner's four-year wait for a kidney finally ended last night after she underwent a five-hour transplant operation.
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03.04.2008 - BBC
Zoe suffered six cardiac arrests while waiting for a new heartA little girl who suffered six cardiac arrests and spent 100 days on an artificial heart is making a good recovery after a transplant. Zoe Chambers, two, had the operation in Newcastle's Freeman Hospital when
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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. But it was a different story 18 months ago, when he was born with the arteries in his heart the wrong way around. T
