A chance to defuse the cancer timebomb

9:45am Friday 21st March 2008

Jill Neill, 50, who lives in Melsonby near Richmond, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December 2006

The hearts on wheels that are saving lives

10:13am Friday 14th March 2008

A North-East hospital is pioneering the use of a portable artificial heart. Health Editor Barry Nelson reports

Always look on the bright side

9:38am Friday 7th March 2008

Barry Nelson visits a North-East firm to find out why we should all be popping Vitamin D pills when the sun refuses to shine IT seems ironic that the citizens of a country with one of the sunniest climates on Earth apparently have high levels of vitamin D deficiency.

Far too good for rabbits

9:41am Friday 7th March 2008

It's Veggie Month, time to find some mouth-watering ways of getting your five fruit and veg a day. Gabrielle Fagan reports OLD jokes about vegetarian food being boring, tasteless and overflowing with lentils were long ago booted into touch as top chefs began turning out dishes so mouth-wateringly delicious even ardent carnivores were converted.

How a bubble saved by life

10:21am Friday 29th February 2008

A free event to raise awareness of stem cell research will be held in the region later this month.

Big challenges ahead for Mr Small

10:11am Friday 22nd February 2008

Small is beautiful, it seems, in the world of weight management surgery. Health editor Barry Nelson meets the man who is setting up the region’s first bariatric surgery unit

Massaging away those baby blues

9:21am Friday 15th February 2008

Skin-to-skin contact is vitally important to humans, especially so for babies. Sharon Griffith discovers the benefits of baby massage

Sit up and put your back into it

9:57am Friday 8th February 2008

Health Editor Barry Nelson walks tall into the region’s first specialist posture clinic

‘I’ve been so lucky to find a donor’

10:01am Friday 1st February 2008

Toni Chorley had a dazzling career ahead of her and everything to live for when her world was suddenly turned upside down by the devastating news that she had cancer. Just days before her bone marrow transplant, the courageous 22-year-old speaks to Marjorie McIntyre about her tenacious fight to beat her illness and her determination to help others

The healing powers of fun and friendship

10:38am Friday 25th January 2008

Young people with cancer do much better if they are treated with others in the same age group. Health Editor Barry Nelson visits the region's only teenage cancer unit

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