News about... Transplant and Surgery
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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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13.07.2008 - Sunday Sun
ANGELS on earth is how the staff on Newcastle General Hospitals 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 those suffering from brain tumours.
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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. Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals Trust was one of five singled out for special praise after death rates at NHS hospital trusts in England were published for the first time.
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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.
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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.
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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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07.07.2008 - 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 epileptic seizure.
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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 and children, whatever their...
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07.07.2008 - 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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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.
