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Finding Cures. Saving Children.
When Heather came to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, she missed her pets back home. But she found solace in a golden retriever named Kicker who helped the little girl smile as she battled a brain tumor.
In December 2008, a little girl named Catie, who was very sick, made a simple birthday wish, not realizing how difficult it would be to achieve. Her wish was to raise at least $1.4 million, enough to support the operating costs of the hospital for one day. Thus was launched a fundraising campaign that continued even after her death on January 25, 2009. Thanks to the generosity of donors everywhere, her birthday wish has come true.
When he was 5 years old, DJ developed a fever that none of the antibiotics prescribed by his pediatrician could clear. Then, when he began to experience pain in his legs inhibiting his ability to walk, his mother rushed him to a local children's hospital where tests revealed he was suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
The top auctioneers in the nation lent their fast talking skills and high energy to bring smiles and toys to the kids of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital during the 13th annual Toy Auction, which was sponsored by the National Auctioneers Association (NAA) and took place on November 11.
Daniel Biljanoski, a 13 year-old patient at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, will be featured on ABC News' Nightline on Friday night.
Hosted by Marlo Thomas, with special guest, Jennifer Garner, A Place of Hope is the newest one-hour special from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The show highlights the inspiring stories of six children battling cancer with the help of St. Jude.
Emily Hoskins, a former patient of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, earned a gold medal as part of the U.S. women’s wheelchair basketball team competing at the Paralympics in Beijing, China, this week.
Adam Walston is a Chili’s Grill & Bar server diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in 1993 at age 8 and treated at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital from 1993 - 1995.
Within moments of meeting 13-year-old St. Jude patient Vivian Laws, you’re struck by how determined she is. She wants to remember every bit of her cancer recovery, even the bad stuff, which is why she keeps a scrapbook to nudge her memory.
In 1997, Jessica became a patient at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to receive treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common form of childhood cancer.
On February 10, 2008, PGA Golfer and Eagles for St. Jude ambassador Vijay Singh made his first eagle of the 2008 PGA TOUR dedicating it to St. Jude patient Tyler Whaley, who Singh had met while touring the hospital in November 2007. Though Tyler passed away only a month after meeting with Singh, the golfer's fulfilled vow served as a tribute to the spirit of Tyler and St. Jude patients who fight for their lives.
St. Jude survivors and patients share their stories of battling cancer, their successes and their dreams.
Even though CVS/pharmacy employee Patricia Barnes spends her days surrounded by medicine, none of it offered hope when her daughter, Susan, was found to have cancer. Then St. Jude Children's Research Hospital threw the desperate family a lifeline.
Five years ago, Kerri Castello made her mother, Lora, promise to keep raising money on her behalf for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Today, Lora continues to honor her promise to Kerri with a tennis tournament in her daughter's memory.
When Mary Flowers was four months old, her parents noticed that she wasn't focusing on her toys. They worried that their baby couldn't see. "Cancer never crossed my mind," her mom said.
As part of a special March mailing, St. Jude donors were invited to send words of support to the patients of St. Jude.
At her brother's birthday party, Amber suddenly became very ill. By the next morning, she could barely walk. Her terrified mother rushed her to the emergency room, where doctors made a terrible discovery -- Amber had a cancerous tumor on her brain.
Abbi, as her parents call her, was just 5 months old when doctors discovered she was not only suffering from acute myeloid leukemia, but also central nervous system leukemia. It was one of the most frightening times of the Shaws' lives.
Arnie Schwartzman thinks about his son every day. Jon would have been 32 years old this year had he not lost his battle with cancer in 1979. At a St. Jude event in 2002, Arnie crossed paths with cancer survivor Tranny Arnold, and a friendship emerged.
In this story, we take you through a day with Billy Dorn. Billy is a 6-year-old patient who is being treated for medulloblastoma, a brain tumor.
Discovered to have acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 1964 at age 11, Pat Patchell's chances of surviving seemed bleak. He endured more than two years of treatment at St. Jude where doctors were pushing to find a cure. Today, Patchell is 50 years old.
