Brice Royer was diagnosed with a rare type of stomach cancer and began looking for the cause. He decided that if his life were filled with more love and sharing, rather than purchasing and selling, the simplicity might help to heal him. He researched and found that many "gift economies" were popping up around the world that […]
On Sunday, March 9, the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research posed as cheerleaders to don purple pom-poms and encourage thousands of runners in the LA Marathon. An official charity for the LA Marathon, the Foundation rallied lots of volunteers and provided a peppy cheering squad to uplift runners and walkers as they grew nearer to the finish line just a few miles away. These photos by Angela_Daves-Haley will make you feel like you were there cheering, too.
Canadians in Edmonton who are baffled by assembly instructions for IKEA furniture can hire Brad Fremmerlid, a 24-year-old man with severe autism who can build anything. Although he doesn't read or speak, Fremmerlid has an amazing ability to understand the most complex diagrams, blueprints and pictorial instructions.
A doctor, who was called suddenly to perform brain surgery during a life-threatening emergency, had only one option for transportation leaving the hospital where he was located, he had to walk. Up hills and (mostly falling) down hills, wearing only scrubs and slip on shoes, Dr. Zenko Hrynkiw trudged on through the wintery mix to the main road where traffic was at a dead stop. After walking six miles he finally reached a passable roadway where a salesman picked him up to deliver him to Trinity Medical Center.
When Christopher Kiezek sat on Santa's knee recently, like a lot of kids, he asked for an Xbox One. But he also asked for a new arm so he could play it. He was born without fingers and his mother says the insurance company won't pay for a prosthetic device because it wasn't necessary for the boy's life. A family friend, moved by the boy's Christmas wish, set about to touch others with the story.
In honor of his mother, a breast cancer survivor, and for Breast Cancer Awareness month, Ryan Marotta bought pink sneakers to wear to school. But, some of his middle school classmates harassed him because he was a boy wearing pink. When his friends found out why he was wearing the shoes, everyone started wearing pink.
She may be atuned to the importance of the mind-body connection because moments before surgery to remove her breasts, an Ob/Gyn and mother of two, spread joy in the operation room by playing music and busting a move to Beyonce's "Get Me Bodied" alongside her surgical team.
It was a big day for Dee Faught when a team of Rice University students gave him a helping hand. In fact, they gave him a whole arm. The bioengineering students took two years to perfect their R-ARM, a robotic device for Faught that fits on his motorized chair and uses a video game controller for manipulating the movements.
"Whenever we can help a sick kid, we're going to do everything we can," said one Orange City firefighter Tuesday as he and his colleagues shaved their heads to show support for patients at the children's hospital. Between 40 and 50 firefighters visited patients at the hospital in a fun hair-shaving ceremony of solidarity.
A hospice nurse recalled last week a sunny day back in August when everything came together to give Jim, a dying cancer patient, a brilliant return to his beloved ocean one last time. The nurse, Cathy Betham, discovered during Jim Handy's final days that his wish, as a resident of Cape May, New Jersey, was to once more dip his toes in the ocean, so she set out to try to make it happen.
A Boston area waiter said he was asked to perform an anonymous act of kindness for a restaurant patron on Tuesday night. The photo he posted as proof is warming hearts across the internet.
After being dealt one devastating blow after another, a record-breaking number of donations has changed the life of a former cancer patient who suddenly became paralyzed after aggressive chemotherapy and radiation. At 29, Melissa Smith, who had beat cancer twice, was hit with a rare disease that paralyzed her from the waist down. Her sister, hoping to raise money badly needed to help Melissa, relentlessly urged a charity site, Chive, to intervene. It turns out, strangers around the world were waiting to help too.
More than 2,600 people from around the world may have helped prolong the life of a dying Nebraska father by sending photos, notes and postcards all colored with sky-blue pink. His son, a digital brand manager with Red Bull, started an online campaign for people to post sunsets and skies using Twitter or Instagram to help fill his father's room with his favorite scenes.
Debbie Sexton was half way home in the car after her cancer treatment when she realized she left her phone somewhere in the hospital. Thanks to the GPS turned on in her phone the mishap led to a meeting and friendship with a young man who had found her phone and has cancer too.
A Thailand television commercial tells a moving story about a shopkeeper who gives to others without hope of return. But his good deed is returned after years and saves the man's life.
When your two year-old is in the hospital battling childhood cancer, you do whatever crazy thing will help keep their spirits up. Lauren, the particularly creative mother of little Hazel Hammersley, used medical tape on the window to form giant letters: SEND PIZZA RM 4112.
Janette Camba, a temporary worker and familiar barista at Tim Hortons, for more than three years, is now back in her home country of the Philippines, recovering from a life-saving kidney transplant, paid for by almost $30,000 in donations raised in North Vancouver.
Proof that human kindness and generosity has not gone out of style, a wedding planner worked for weeks with volunteers and vendors in April to create the Wedding of a Lifetime for cancer patient, Jennifer Batugo and her fiance Brian Gargano. They needed a last minute date change for their planned August wedding because the bride may not live that long.
Twelve-year-old Luka suffers from muscular dystrophy - a cruel degenerative disease which confines him to a wheelchair and will make him weaker and weaker over time. But a friend and photographer Matej Peljhan has allowed him to create an imaginary world where he can shoot a basketball, climb stairs and even perform a handstand.
A generous gift is making life more enjoyable for children at UNC Children's Hospital. It's a video game built with the same materials as real race cars. The lime green racing simulator won't be found in any arcade; Mark Smith designed it specifically with patients like Dylan in mind.
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