Examining my brain scan, the emergency room neurosurgeon announced gravely, Well, you didn't have a stroke, but you do have a brain tumor--about the size of a golfball. Before the tumor, dead-end jobs supported a lifestyle of immediate gratification and self-destructiveness.
A report released by the US Department of Health and Human Services this week shows an estimated 50,000 fewer patients died in hospitals, and approximately $12 billion in health care costs were saved, as a result of a reduction in hospital error over the last three years.
You don't often find the words health care and good news in the same sentence, but in a new Public Television documentary, we learn that while groups on all sides argue the merits and limitations of reform initiatives, a few American communities are already getting the job done. Correspondent T.R. Reid reports they are accomplishing what few have been able to do – deliver quality care for reasonable cost, and in some cases cover just about everybody in town.
Four years ago, Janelly Martinez-Amador was confined to a bed, unable to move even an arm or lift her head. The fragile toddler had a rare disorder that left her without any bones. Now, at age 7, thanks to medical science, she is developing her own bones with the aid of an experimental drug therapy.
Global advertising giant JWT paired two of its clients, a Brazilian cancer center with Warner Bros., who enlisted their Justice League comic book illustrators to create superhero stories that transform chemotherapy into a "Superformula." They even made covers for intravenous bags with superhero logos.
Hollywood superheroes Chris Evans, who plays the role of Marvel's Captain America, and his friend Chris Pratt (who plays Star-Lord in the film Guardians of the Galaxy) made good on a friendly Super Bowl bet on Saturday visiting Seattle Children's Hospital bringing gifts and joy to young patients
A 4-year-old leukemia patient got the pretend wedding of her dreams to her favorite male nurse, thanks to a caring and fun hospital staff.
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Not only did this 5-year-old steal hearts on the internet with his bold declaration of love, he stole the heart of Tall Sarah.
This nurse made several trips outside, into a winter storm, to bring in huge bowls of snow so hospitalized kids could make mini-snowmen with it.
A teen's thank you to a surgeon who saved her life as an infant brings on a tearful reunion 14 years later.
Hospitals in the U.S. have inadvertently started a Pay-it-Forward pizza chain sending solidarity deliveries to the next one dealing with a shooting rampage.
My good friend Wally Bock wrote an article for his newsletter which he titled Christmas and Cancer Both Begin with C. Wally's mother died of cancer in 1982 after fourteen years as one of the earliest recipients of chemotherapy. One of her life's mottos was What good can we make of this? I was honored when Wally wrote about my experience alongside his mother's.
A veteran nearly fell out of his chair when he heard a doctor onstage telling the story of a 'miracle kid' and realized that kid was him-26 years later.
Construction workers erecting a building also built a bridge of sorts to a little girl in the hospital room window.
One mother is giving more than 1,700 sick children a reason to smile. Robyn Rosenberger crafts capes to give children with terminal illnesses a chance to feel special – to feel like superheroes. "She doesn't just deliver capes, she bolsters children," one child's mother told TODAY. "It's Robyn that turns them into superheroes."
Parents are celebrating their premature son's first birthday by giving back to the people who helped him survive his first critical months.
Chris Pratt stopped by a children's hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to delight children with his Jurassic World raptor-stance, and more.
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