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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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