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Finding Cures. Saving Children.
2006 Home Page stories
Read 2006 Home Page stories. Click on the links to the left to see other stories that have appeared on our home page.
Someday our yearly influenza vaccines might be much more effective at ridding us of that winter virus, thanks to the work of researchers at St. Jude.
St. Jude researchers report that a specific mutation prevents the liver from disposing of a particular cancer drug, allowing it to cause troublesome side effects.
A team of St. Jude researchers has shown in laboratory studies that a drug called interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) is a potentially effective and practical way to sensitize cells of neuroblastoma tumors to chemotherapy.
It's a plot that turns on a cell's precarious dance of life and death. St. Jude scientists are determined to write the book on cell suicide.
A St. Jude investigator was a key player in a national team of researchers that brought scientists a step closer to finding a cure for brain-degeneration diseases caused by abnormal proteins called prions.
St. Jude is examining ways to reduce patient stress while receiving treatment. Humor is common in the brightly colored halls of St. Jude. Employees and patients know that laughter is the best medicine, and St. Jude is a good place to get a dose.
Just when KJ Milligan thought he had weathered the storm of a lifetime, cancer swept back in with gale-force strength. Then Hurricane Katrina destroyed his home. But this teen courageously fights on.
Give hope to a child stricken with cancer by becoming a St. Jude Partner In Hope. This special family of our most loyal supporters gives monthly to ensure that no child is ever turned away because of a family's inability to pay.
When 18-year-old John Alston plays the piano, the room reverberates with emotion, evoking sorrow and solace, passion and peace, exultation and loss. Listeners may be surprised that someone so young can display such harmonic depth and maturity.
On Oct. 28, 2006, some of the NASCAR Nextel Cup's top racers will be driving at the Memphis Motorsports Park for the Sam's Town 250 benefiting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
An avid runner, Dawn Sumrall always wanted to run in a marathon. When a friend's nephew was sent to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, that was all the motivation she needed.
Marlo Thomas, national outreach director for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, won the GRAMMY® award on February 8, 2006, in the category of Best Spoken Word Album For Children for her "Thanks & Giving All Year Long" recording.
Carrie Underwood, winner of the 2005
The patients of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital face something much scarier than ghosts or goblins on Halloween. You can give them a treat with a tribute gift to St. Jude.
For the past 10 years, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has celebrated its cancer survivors with a special day just for them. Some of those celebrants are senior citizens now.
Ashley Davidson triumphed over a brain tumor as an infant. Now 13, she is conquering horseback riding and giving back to St. Jude.
"This recognition is a terrific external indication that we are being successful in creating a great place to work at St. Jude," said William Evans, PharmD, St. Jude director and CEO.
This holiday season, send all your friends and family gifts that give back. The 2006 Online Holiday Catalog offers a great selection of beautiful and unique items that make perfect gifts for all the special people in your life.
A star-studded cast of celebrities joined Marlo Thomas, Terre Thomas, Tony Thomas, Phil Donahue and Robert Ellis at the annual Runway For Life® fashion show to benefit St. Jude on September 15, 2006.
St. Jude welcomes Huntsville Hospital for Women & Children in Huntsville, Alabama, as the fifth St. Jude affiliated pediatric hematology/oncology clinic in the United States. This clinic will serve children in North Alabama and south central Tennessee.
Former St. Jude patient and current employee Harris Jones recounts his experiences during last year's BG US Challenge presented by FORTUNE and his team's excitement about returning for the 2006 event.
Think your company is the best? Prove it by joining the 2006 BG US Challenge presented by FORTUNE. Your five-person team will compete in rugged tasks and you will be supporting the work of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
What's your pleasure? Artichokes every day? No problem. Repeated calls to room service? Sure. At St. Jude, one dedicated team does whatever is necessary to ensure that children eat.
St. Jude has been named the top-rated health care organization for innovative and imaginative use of IT strategies.
St. Jude occupational therapists help kids--and their families--learn to navigate the world when sight is limited or lost.
Across the United States, throughout the month of September awareness activities will take place to educate and bring attention to three diseases: sickle cell, childhood cancer and leukemia/lymphoma.
One year after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast region, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is still treating 25 pediatric patients who had to be relocated to receive cancer treatment in the wake of the disaster.
St. Jude researchers launch a counterattack on pediatric cancer using molecular-targeted therapy. As scientists learn more about the human genome and specific genetic mutations, they are finding new strategies to ambush the enemy.
A gift inspires another gift, and a miracle inspires the next miracle. It's got to start somewhere; it might as well start with you.
Target House seems to have found the perfect balance between offering families the privacy and normalcy they need as family units and the community of others who truly understand what they are experiencing. It's a home-away-from-home.
Whether it is in the form of miraculous signs, lofty wishes or four-legged creatures, three-time cancer survivor Sierra Josephsen is living proof that the adage is true.
The Memphis to Peoria Run, a 465-mile journey from the doors of St. Jude to Peoria, Illinois, celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2006.
The saying at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is that the institution is about children, not about bricks and mortar. And with the St. Jude Dream Home program, that axiom has even more resonance.
To find answers for children with "orphan diseases," one St. Jude researcher digs into the mysteries of the human cell.
In an historic announcement, ALSAC chief executive officer John P. Moses and top officials from Chili's Grill & Bar revealed plans for the restaurant chain to raise $50 million over a 10-year period for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
St. Jude vaccine offers cross-protection in ferrets against different variants of H5N1, suggesting it could be stockpiled for use in the event of a human outbreak.
Through two studies--HUSOFT and BABY HUG--St. Jude is offering hope to babies with sickle cell disease.
St. Jude researchers wage war on neuroblastoma with an antibody that turns the immune system into a castle-storming, cancer-killing army.
Four months after returning to the United States in January, life caught up with Staff Sgt. Joseph Torriero, who had his name drawn as the winner of the Columbus, Georgia Dream Home.
José Rodriguez is not going to let cancer or the loss of a leg prevent him from pursuing his dreams.
When new families arrive at St. Jude, they feel as if they have no control over their child's situation and sometimes find it hard to breathe. But within a few days, they start reading, listening, learning. With this knowledge comes power...and breath.
Breanna Crowder is the first person in the world to undergo back-to-back transplants of stem cells and natural killer cells to cure a rare type of leukemia.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has a variety of ways for people to contribute to its life-saving work that goes on each day ... almost like a tapestry of fund raising, with each program its own thread.
"We as a family will recognize St. Jude as a place of miracles where our daughter was given a second chance--not only at life, but as a walking, dancing symbol of hope," says this St. Jude mom.
The best dose of a chemotherapy drug for one child is not necessarily the best dose for another. St. Jude scientists are simplifying individualized therapy for children with cancer.
The success of a commercially produced vaccine in protecting laboratory animals from bird flu virus during studies performed at St. Jude suggests that it would protect humans if the virus mutates and acquires the ability to spread from person to person.
Marlo Thomas, National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, returns to bookstores with her latest collection of inspirational stories, The Right Words at the Right Time, Volume 2: Your Turn!
The discovery that expression of specific genes can accurately report the presence of mutations in biochemical pathways within medulloblastoma cells could speed development of more effective and less toxic treatments.
Guess the correct number of birdies scored during the FedEx St. Jude Classic and you could win a 2006 Buick Lucerne. Every penny raised through this pledge drive benefits St. Jude.
Experts in sickle cell disease from around the world converged on Memphis, Tennessee, April 8-12, when St. Jude and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) hosted the 29th Annual Meeting of the National Sickle Cell Disease Program.
From a roadside in rural China to the heart of a Mississippi family, the miraculous journey of Anna Grace Davis is just beginning.
Latin stars joined the Miami community for the fourth annual FedEx/St. Jude Angels & Stars Gala to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital on March 25, 2006.
One of their children had died of sickle cell disease. The other two were desperately ill with the same disorder. To whom could the Hernandez family turn for help?
Why is a hospital devoted to curing childhood diseases presenting research that addresses adult-onset obesity? Occasionally, investigations conducted at St. Jude lead to revolutionary discoveries in other areas.
Just in time for spring, the immensely popular Wish Charms are back. Visit the Hope Catalog and start your collection today...or add to it! The new silver bangle bracelets and three new charms will help you show your support for St. Jude in style.
Respiratory infections are the No. 1 killer of children around the world. St. Jude researchers are determined to change that statistic.
She rides horses, hangs out with friends and dreams of that perfect "flower-power" car. Thanks to St. Jude, Bekah Lloyd is not wasting one, glorious minute of freedom.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has achieved another milestone in its fight against childhood cancer--a 5-year survival rate of more than 90 percent for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common form of childhood cancer.
Andy Roddick, the world's No. 3 ranked tennis player and former tournament champion, will make his sixth consecutive appearance in Memphis as he seeks his second tournament title in the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships.
Thanks to the St. Jude Neurobiology and Brain Tumor Program, victory is within reach for kids with medulloblastoma.
Eight hours of sleep is what we are supposed to get. But for many folks--especially that raucous group known as college students--eight hours of sleep is a tale of mythology. So in 1998, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital began harnessing that energy.
Waited until the last minute to find a special gift for Valentine's Day? What better way to show your loved ones how much you care than by honoring them with a Valentine's gift to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in their name?
Thousands of Americans have made New Year's resolutions to get in shape, but few manage to follow through. You can give yourself extra motivation and double the benefits of your resolution by getting in shape ... for St. Jude.
Unique resources at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital let researchers generate a "gold mine" of data to track evolution of bird flu virus genes and understand how they cooperate to cause disease.
Spanish-language entertainment industry leaders and top business executives from across the United States came together January 20-22 in Memphis, Tennessee, to celebrate the sixth annual Promesa y Esperanza Hispanic radio training seminar.
Math is either hated or loved. Just like the subject itself, it doesn't really have a grey area between the two emotions ... except at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
From the day after Thanksgiving until New Year's Day, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital asked the public to give thanks for the children in their lives who are healthy and to give to those who are not through its "Thanks and Giving" campaign.
New report from St. Jude suggests that use of gene-based diagnosis and treatment, more effective use of existing drugs and adoption of emerging strategies will continue to boost ALL cure rate.
