A 15-year-old girl from North England has been fighting cancer for four years and now strangers around the world are fighting to help her cross off as many items as possible from her 'bucket list'. To stay in a caravan. To swim with sharks. To go to Kenya. To go to Cadbury World eating lots of chocolate.
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This mom cooks nutritious food for hospitalized kids with cancer when they are least likely to care about eating at all, much less choosing foods that heal.
Though the metal guitar legend still has to be on his toes for the lymphoma he's been fighting since 2012, Tony Iommi's cancer has gone into remission.
A Philippine teenager discovered a natural solution for killing the larvae of the mosquito responsible for spreading the zika virus.
These billboards in Brazil are designed to smell like people, luring virus-carrying mosquitos from more than a mile away into traps.
There has been a breakthrough in the fight against pancreatic cancer, and it's all thanks to a 15-year-old Maryland County teen and his mom, who drove him to Johns Hopkins University every night after school to test his theory in a lab. Jack Andraka won a $75,000 grand prize in this year's Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his new way to test for early-stage pancreatic cancer. The test also detects ovarian and lung cancer.
A promising discovery has been made that could one day help in the fight against cystic fibrosis -- and the researcher behind it is just 16 years old.
The death rate of children – from birth to 19 years old – has dropped from 14.2 million to 7.2 million since 1990.
Even though Patrick Davis had his arms and legs amputated in 2015, he returned to the sport he loved best, bowling-and his frames are better than ever.
A 7-year-old boy with congenital heart disease was finally granted a lifelong dream: visiting the friendly green aliens on Saturn.
Isolated limb perfusion is saving the limbs of patients with advanced malignant cancer.
Epidermolysis bullosa is a condition that makes John Hudson Dilgen's skin so fragile, the slightest movements cause his skin to blister and tear.
An impressive discovery at Michigan State University has been shown to reduce the spread of melanoma cells by up to 90%.
Carter was always mortified by his vitiligo – at least until he met Rowdy the Labrador.
Researchers have recently discovered that the same glucose-regulating hormone in the platypus's gut is also found in its venom.
These super crystals can now be injected into a patient's blood stream and directed towards tumors using magnetic fields.
Scientists have been struggling for years to find suitable treatments for genetic muscle diseases – but not any more thanks to this groundbreaking therapy.
Thanks to a 10% tax on sugary drinks, this study predicts that rates of mortality, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes will drop significantly.
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