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Finding Cures. Saving Children.
2004 Home Page stories
Read 2004 Home Page stories. Click on the links to the left to see other stories that have appeared on our home page.
Slated to begin this summer, the protocol is designed to determine the best treatment for children with the disease, to discover why some children develop the disease in utero and to determine how children with retinoblastoma think and learn.
Children with retinoblastoma reap the benefits of basic laboratory research while St. Jude researchers harness technology and knowledge to give clinicians a vast array of treatment options.
From Dec. 1, 2004, through Feb. 28, 2005, The Melting Pot will be offering special dining packages for its Big Night Out for the Kids campaign.
Kenyan Sammy Nyamongo won the third annual St. Jude Memphis Marathon and Half Marathon on Dec. 4, 2004.
Taking care of teeth is all work and no play--except at St. Jude, where laughter and compassion merge with research and clinical care.
James Boyett, PhD, chair of St. Jude Biostatistics, saw the need to coordinate the activities of institutions spread across the nation. As a result, he developed an Operations and Biostatistics Center for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC).
On Oct. 13, 2004, Hancock Fabrics along with Grammy award-winning singer Amy Grant and quilting icon Martha Pullen presented quilts and donations to St. Jude.
As we all join together in promoting the hospital's mission, our actions can create a glorious patchwork of hope and healing for the children of the world.
On Oct. 8, 2004 nearly 1,000 soap opera fans descended on New York City's Marriott Marquis to get a glimpse and rub elbows with some of their favorite daytime television stars and in the process, helped children fighting cancer.
A new study brings massage into the patient's room. But this treatment involves more than just back rubs. Think whoopee cushions. Think Three Stooges. Think relief from pain and anxiety.
Marlo Thomas, the daughter of St. Jude founder Danny Thomas, recently accepted the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award for her late father at the 56th annual Emmy Awards.
After her workday at St. Jude is done, this employee helps transform beginning pianists into "superstars."
Some 3,500 quilts were donated to St. Jude through the Hancock Fabrics Quilt of Dreams promotion with over 2,000 to be given to patients. Some remaining quilts are available for a donation to support the hospital's life-saving work.
When Tom Bowen suggested that he and the other firemen on his squad drop to their knees at the site of Ground Zero to pray, he didn't realize how his small act of loving kindness would come full circle.
Jeff Probst, Emmy Award-winning host of the CBS-TV series Survivor, visited St. Jude Children's Research Hospital on Sept. 2 to help kick off a new promotion from Chili's Grill & Bar.
Everyone knows that Parkinson's disease affects adults. But by studying this disease, St. Jude scientists may help children, as well.
The St. Jude Patient Art Gallery is a testament of life and love at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
This school year millions of youngsters around the country are going to pitch in and help other children in the battle against childhood catastrophic diseases. And they are going to do it one math problem at a time.
Structural biologists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are studying biological motors critical to a cell's ability to divide and produce healthy daughter cells.
For only the second time in its 40-year history, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital was the beneficiary of an international fund-raising gala.
Dog lovers from around the country will head to Memphis for the ninth annual St. Jude Showcase of Dogs to be held Oct. 8 through Oct. 10. The event, which is the only one of its kind in North America, is designed to celebrate the life of dogs...
Supermodel Amber Valletta shares her perspective on St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
What inspires this group of people to run, relay-style, 465 miles from the front door of St. Jude to the Peoria Civic Center?
In July, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, St. Jude's largest third-party contributor, held its International Convention in Little Rock, Arkansas, in celebration of their 75th anniversary.
In 1973, the ladies of Epsilon Sigma Alpha (ESA) pledged their support to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and made my father, Danny Thomas, an honorary "sister." When he died in 1991, I was honored to step into his role.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is currently featured in U.S. News & World Report's special 'Best Hospitals in America' edition (July 12, 2004 edition.)
Finding donors to provide soap and paper towels for hand washing; donating current medical textbooks; educating people about early diagnosis in small countries where more than 20 languages are spoken -- it's all in a day's work for Judith Wilimas, MD.
Many teens get an added burden to those sometimes chaotic years; they find out they have cancer. Several years ago, St. Jude created the Teen Room, and the women's fraternity Delta Delta Delta stepped in to endow the room where teens can be teens.
When Glina Raffanti bought a ticket for a chance to win a St. Jude Dream Home, she never thought she would win. But she did. She knew her donation would help children at St. Jude. But she didn't know her great nephew would be one of the children.
The Hispanic population in the United States has been booming since the 1980s. And with Spanish-format radio rising in popularity, it's proving an important medium for reaching St. Jude supporters.
For 20 years, the After Completion of Therapy (ACT) Clinic has been providing services to survivors while obtaining research findings that will help future patients.
On Saturday, June 5, 2004, St. Jude childhood cancer survivors and their families will gather at the hospital to celebrate the Eighth Annual St. Jude Cancer Survivors Day.
One St. Jude patient honors the heroism and bravery of U.S. veterans while waging his own private war against cancer.
The 47th annual FedEx St. Jude Classic is set to take place next week at the Tournament Players Club at Southwind in Memphis, Tenn. It marks the earliest that the tournament has ever begun in almost 30 years.
Honor Mom this Mother's Day with a gift to St. Jude in her name. Your gift will help children stricken with cancer or other catastrophic diseases ... and give other moms the chance to celebrate this day with their children ... children such as Jakob.
Like a travel journal that recounts destinations, activities and thoughts, Jennifer Farrar's scrapbook unfolds her son's St. Jude journey.
St. Jude investigators have demonstrated for the first time that many proteins exploit disorderliness in their structure to perform various jobs.
Ten-year-old Rodrick Thompson of Memphis loves playing dodge ball, basketball and hide-and-go-seek. He loves eating pizza and reading books. And he loves coming to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for his yearly checkups.
Imagine having the power of 280 personal computers at your fingertips. Researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital do not have to imagine it--they have it.
St. Jude patients who are HIV positive explore their feelings by creating an HIV Alphabet.
HIV-infected children are facing brighter futures thanks to powerful life-extending drugs. But St. Jude clinicians say more education and improved therapies are key to stopping the AIDS-causing virus.
Every day, patients and staff who walk along the corridors near Radiation Therapy at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are greeted by a painting of a dark-haired woman in a multi-colored dress. Her arms are extended as if preparing for an embrace.
In his workshop in Clinton, Tennessee, Carl Summers, a retired boilermaker, carefully crafts wooden toy ducks that have supported the life-saving work of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Chaplain Lisa Anderson shares lessons she has learned from St. Jude patients and parents.
Grammy award-winner, author and actor Charlie Daniels offers his perspectives on St. Jude.
Coast to coast, listeners of country radio have lit up the phone lines with their calls, pledging to help St. Jude in its quest to eradicate childhood catastrophic diseases such as cancer.
St. Jude pioneers the use of an MRI technique that relies on the movement of water molecules to produce brilliant images and, ultimately, to save children's lives.
Shandel Narcisse found hope and help for sickle cell disease 2,300 miles from his home on a tropical island.
Pediatric Oncology Education students gain priceless experience through St. Jude summer program.
In spite of heroic efforts, some children still die in the dawn of life. St. Jude helps grieving parents celebrate the lives of those children. The 2004 Day of Remembrance will be held April 2-3 at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Drawing strength from the world around him and his own positive philosophy, this St. Jude patient is determined to survive his tumor recurrence.
More than 100 travel fellows come to St. Jude each year to learn and be inspired. Then they return to their home countries to save young lives there. This is one woman's story.
Financing a college education in the U.S. is challenging for freshman Belán López, but if anyone can find a way, it is this tenacious young woman who has overcome Hodgkin disease.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital announces the launch of its Web site in Spanish.
On Feb. 17-21, athletes from around the country will compete in Tunica, Mississippi, for a spot on the 2004 U.S. Olympic Boxing Team. The trials will benefit St. Jude and help continue the hospital's mission of finding cures and saving children.
St. Jude scientists and clinicians are working to reverse the effects of a tiny mutation that causes sickle cell disease.
When it comes to ALL treatment, survival rates for all children soar at St. Jude. A St. Jude team found that with equal access to effective therapy, both African-American and white patients could expect high cure rates.
This week, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital simultaneously celebrates its opening on Feb. 4, 1962, and remembers its founder, Danny Thomas, who died on Feb. 6, 1991.
Click here for a photographic essay on some of the milestone events in St. Jude history.
It's Super Bowl week and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a part of the football festivities, with a special luncheon honoring the winningest coach in NFL history, Don Shula.
St. Jude researchers are using viruses to fight common respiratory diseases, as well as cancer in children.
This St. Jude Web site shares information with physicians, nurses and caregivers throughout the world.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. This axiom is especially appropriate when applied to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Randy Owen of ALABAMA writes about his first experience with St. Jude, when he met Danny Thomas in 1988 and the founding of Country Cares.
Representatives from more than 200 country music radio stations will join some of country music's biggest names Jan. 15-17 to celebrate the 15th year of Country Cares for St. Jude Kids at the program's annual radio training seminar.
The Grizzlies' players, St. Jude/ALSAC staff, and several courageous St. Jude patients met on a chilly morning, as the team and St. Jude opened the $10 million Memphis Grizzlies House on the hospital's campus downtown.
With the same celebration that usually ends a championship game, Memphis Grizzlies basketball star Shane Battier clipped the net, and 6-year-old patient Valery Young yanked it down, marking the beginning of a new era for the patients of St. Jude.
Michael Heisley, majority owner of the Memphis Grizzlies NBA team, offers his thoughts about St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
