A CONTROVERSIAL move to cut funding to rural GP practices could be overturned after a North East health trust was forced to re-assess its decision.Read
TWO of the North East’s leading universities have been given £5½m to invest in bioscience postgraduate training to help bring top-class scientists to the region.Read
HUNDREDS of women have offered to donate their eggs for research into pioneering fertility treatment which could eradicate incurable inherited diseases.Read
COMEDIAN Jo Brand was in the North East to open a hospital’s new multi-million pound emergency care centre that is set to significantly enhance patient care.Read
RESEARCHERS in the North East have been given a £5.8m boost to fund a new centre to continue their pioneering work that could offer hope of cures to a host of inherited diseases.Read
EMERGENCY services could be the only patient care provided if doctors in the North East take industrial action in protest at plans to change their pensions.Read
A TODDLER’s baby brother could be his lifesaver after his parents harvested stem cells from his umbilical cord to potentially treat him for cancer.Read
LABOUR'S shadow health team visited hospitals throughout the North East yesterday as part of a national campaign to persuade the Government to drop its unpopular Health and Social Care Bill. Read
SHADOW health secretary Andy Burnham has warned that the North-South divide in health inequalities will widen if the controversial NHS changes become legislation.Read
Helen Rae is our Health Reporter and is interested in all aspects of healthy living. She writes the weekly Your Health section which appears every Monday in the Chronicle, and is an experienced senior reporter.
