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Mock clinical trial highlights benefits of trying new drugs or treatment

3:08pm Monday 20th May 2013

VISITORS to a North-East hospital were asked to take part in a chocolate-based research project to celebrate International Clinical Trials Day.

Public consultation over planned hospital changes gets under way

2:23pm Monday 20th May 2013

THE public are being asked for their views on a plan to strip Hartlepool Hospital of critical care and emergency medicine services and centralise them at North Tees Hospital.

Campaign tells patients that it is 'OK to ask' about clinical trials

L-to-r:  NHS Hartlepool and North Tees research practitioner Susan Kelsey, patient Val Skinner and clinical research nurse Anne Eastick - also from the same trust - who are supporting the campaign.

10:40am Sunday 19th May 2013

DOCTORS, nurses and patients throughout the North East are backing a new campaign called "it's OK to ask".

Maggie's Cancer Support comes to the North-East

11:56am Friday 17th May 2013

THE North-East's first Maggie's cancer support centre has opened.

Ex-footballer urges everyone to bring dementia out into the open

11:07am Friday 17th May 2013

FORMER Newcastle United striker Joe Allon will help kick off Dementia Awareness Week activities at Beamish Museum on Monday (MAY 22).

Poster girls promote NHS careers

Emily Solomon and Georgia Thompson from English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College in Hartlepool have been named North-East winners of the Step into the NHS national schools competition to promote careers in the health service

3:05pm Friday 17th May 2013

SCHOOLGIRLS who have been named regional winners of a national NHS poster competition are now interested in a career in the health service. 

Study aims to discover whether special insoles can help MS patients walk

3:55pm Thursday 16th May 2013

SCIENTISTS at a North-East university have been given a 96,000 grant to investigate whether wearing insoles can improve the balance and walking ability of poeple with multiple sclerosis.

Experts back plan to move hospital services from Hartlepool to Stockton

6:00am Thursday 16th May 2013

A TEAM of independent health experts has backed NHS plans to transfer emergency medical and critical care hospital services from Hartlepool to Stockton.

Genetic medicine unit now seeing 800 new cases a year in bid to prevent inherited cancers

6:00am Thursday 16th May 2013

A GENETIC medicine expert has revealed that a regional breast and ovarian cancer prevention unit set up nearly a decade ago is now seeing 800 new referrals a year.

Patients may be first to get new drugs thanks to hospital agreement

7:00am Wednesday 15th May 2013

NORTH-EAST patients may be the first in the UK to benefit from new drug trials after a deal was signed between a hospital trust and a major drug company.



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