Here’s your opportunity to kick off the holiday season by doing something nice. Even the most time-strapped parents of toddlers can take the time to send a Christmas card to a little boy for what may be his last Christmas.
Five-year-old Noah Biorkman has been battling neuroblastoma cancer for two-and-a-half years. He was diagnosed with Stage [...]
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Art as a therapy for children has been proven to be effective in helping young patients cope with physical, mental, as well as emotional difficulties. Here are two children art exhibitions you might want to check out.
The “Welcome to Gulu” art exhibition at the Lehmann Maupin Gallery in Manhattan is one of a kind. The [...]
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The arduous story of the 13-year-old boy suffering from Hodkin’s Lymphoma is causing controversy from the Midwest to the west coast.
Daniel Hauser, from Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in January. He underwent the first of six planned rounds of chemotherapy the same month. Then, he refused any more treatment, apparently with the [...]
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Here is another use for breastmilk – testing for breast cancer. And if you are nursing or are planning to in the coming year, you might just consider volunteering for this research program.
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are looking volunteers who:
are breastfeeding or pumping breastmilk
who have had a breast biopsy previously or who [...]
Tags: breast cancer, breastmilk, cancer, cancer research, volunteer
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Seven-year-old Caleb Crosby is hoping puppies can save his life.
The second grader from Augusta, Maine, was recently diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and, according to this article in the Portland Press Herald, has only two to six months to live.
Experimental treatment at a clinic in Houston may be his only hope for life, [...]
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