Surgeon Treats 100,000 Patients Unable to Pay for Health Care
This doctor found a way to pay for his patient's treatment when they couldn't or their insurance wouldn't.
This doctor found a way to pay for his patient's treatment when they couldn't or their insurance wouldn't.
A former member of Hell's Angels, this biker started a nonprofit to give severely wounded veterans the opportunity to become heroes in their own lives.
She started the movement for a woman's right to vote in the U.S. and should be on the bill commemorating the achievement's 100th anniversary.
Navy veteran Chris Ring is swimming the entire length of the Mississippi River to become the first American to swim the 2,552 miles, and honor fallen comrades
When Egypt saw that an intruder entering her home, the dog sprung into action—fortunately, so did the cops who found her badly injured.
This loyal guide dog immediately put himself in the path of a bus to protect his owner-they both survived, and he has this week become ASPCA's Dog of the Year.
A Dutchman who can control his body with his mind has reformed what scientists long believed was possible, and says others -even with disease-can do it too.
Bhagwati Agrawal tapped a "river from the sky" to supply water year-round to 10,000 people in the driest part of India.
Seeing her best friend fighting cancer while raising four kids alone gave one woman the urge to help her– and 300 other single moms facing the hardship.
This former inmate and homeless woman has helped 800 women break the cycle of poverty and incarceration, and reunite with their children.
A woman is keeping a promise made to her grandmother a half-century ago, to help the Lakota people living on a South Dakota reservation.
A teenage backpacker hiking through Nepal asked her parents to send her savings of $5000 so she could create a home and school for hundreds of needy children.
A man who is helping his fellow veterans "walk off the war" -paying for expenses and equipment on long hikes - is up for a $100,000 Hero prize.
A woman who wanted to do a good deed for the homeless watched as it grew into a community effort to supply backpacks and cold weather clothes to 200 people.
A Florida billionaire took his private helicopter to the Bahamas to help deliver supplies and rescue victims of Hurricane Joaquin.
Carl Schnieder is one of five teachers committed to personally walking home about 200 kids from school each day through rough neighborhoods.
When a landscaper heard how a man kept flipping over in his wheelchair on his own property, he came to the rescue building a new sidewalk..
A high school teacher sold his prized collection of toys to help purchase a specialized wheelchair for a boy he'd never met.
When a neighbor's expensive wheelchair was stolen, an eighth-grader raised the money to replace it in a single day. Watch him get a big hug in return.
Thanks to the Catholic Relief charity and their wealth of HIV services, along with the U.S. government initiative that distributes antiretroviral treatment for millions of people living with HIV, a Tanzanian woman living with HIV is re-energized and inspired to serve others with the disease.
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