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Architect to the Stars, and to St. Jude
Paul Williams, an African-American architect who made his name designing homes for the stars, donated his services to help his friend Danny Thomas get the hospital built.
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The Longest Lap
After a summer lost to cancer treatment, Katherine has found her way back into the water, and back into the stream of high school life.
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Country Cares Turns 30
2019 marks the 30th anniversary of Country Cares for St. Jude Kids. The fundraising program started by country music legend Randy Owen has raised more than $800 million for St. Jude over the last three decades.
Stories
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Possibilities
Nick's Song: Heart and Hard Truths
He was a quiet kid with a gift for basketball - and a cancer diagnosis. Now, he's a teenager transformed, rapping his St. Jude story with survivor songs full of rhyme and raw emotion, a soundtrack to a teenager's two-and-a-half year journey through darkness to light.
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Selfless
Feast Honors Daughter's Memory
St. Jude S'travaganza - the annual feast and football watch party that's become Arkansas' largest fundraiser for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - carries on one girl's memory and raises millions to help children like her all over the world.
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Storied Lives
'You're The Reason I Built This Hospital'
Danny Thomas said it would be worth building St. Jude Children's Research Hospital if it saved just one child’s life. He might have been talking about an Arkansas country boy named Dwight Tosh. Tosh was St. Jude patient number 17.
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Moments
Three Generations of Tayde
At 7 years old, Tayde was diagnosed with leukemia. She and her family traveled from Mexico to receive treatment at St. Jude. Today, with her cancer in remission, Tayde is grateful to be able to give back to the hospital where her life was saved.
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St. Jude Place
Music Strikes Chord with Patients
As a music therapist, Amy Love will tell you music is not only a necessary part of treatment. It’s a learning tool, a coping mechanism, a creative outlet, and a sure-fire way to spark that sweetest of sounds — children laughing, playing and having fun.
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Possibilities
Running, Resilience and a 'Robot Leg'
Mack is a boy in motion. He runs and jumps and tumbles as much as any 9-year-old. He's also a cancer survivor and amputee, but that becomes an afterthought in his day-to-day life, at school and on the basketball court.
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Selfless
Peoria Proud
You’d be hard-pressed to find a place more in step with St. Jude than the Illinois city behind the Memphis to Peoria Run. It started small — a handful of runners, a motorhome, a couple of vans and a crazy notion. Today, it's raised $56.2 million in its history.
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Possibilities
Zabdi's Gift for Giving
He puts others first even as he copes with cancer, whether it’s playing a song for Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman or serving as tech support for friends in the hospital.
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Storied Lives
'The Royal Wedding of St. Jude'
Lindsey Wilkerson and Joel Alsup — cancer survivors, co-workers and friends since childhood — were married on the campus of St. Jude, a hospital that didn’t simply heal them but saved their lives and shaped them, in profound ways.
Original Series
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St. Jude Possibilities
A cancer diagnosis is the start of an odyssey for patients and their families. They’ll need courage, hope, strength and an indomitable spirit, but the caregivers of St. Jude are with them every step of the way. With this series, you can follow along.
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St. Jude Life Stories
When St. Jude saves a child’s life, it makes a lifetime possible. These are the stories of former patients who have forged bold and meaningful lives and careers — adults who took full advantage of the second chances they received as children.
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St. Jude Selfless
It costs $2.8 million a day to operate St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, yet patient families never receive a bill. Our donors make this seemingly impossible math work, through their contributions and fundraising efforts. Meet these people who hold St. Jude’s mission dear and help make all the life-saving research and treatment possible.
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St. Jude Place: Being a Kid at St. Jude
They’re sick children, but they’re still children. So St. Jude takes a holistic view to the hospital experience, one that seeks to bring joy, hope and a sense of normalcy to its young patients. These are stories from the remarkable place that is St. Jude.
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Storied Lives
'The Royal Wedding of St. Jude'
September 10, 2018
Lindsey Wilkerson and Joel Alsup — cancer survivors, co-workers and friends since childhood — were married on the campus of St. Jude, a hospital that didn’t simply heal them but saved their lives and shaped them, in profound ways.
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St. Jude Inspire
Welcome to St. Jude Inspire
January 17, 2019
St. Jude Inspire was created to do justice to stories that unfold every day because of the special mission Danny Thomas ignited decades ago to end childhood cancer and other life threatening diseases. The name speaks to our goal: to inspire trust, hope, faith in our mission.
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Selfless
Country Cares Turns 30
January 24, 2019
2019 marks the 30th anniversary of Country Cares for St. Jude Kids. The fundraising program started by country music legend Randy Owen has raised more than $800 million for St. Jude over the last three decades.
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Possibilities
Nick's Song: Heart and Hard Truths
January 17, 2019
He was a quiet kid with a gift for basketball - and a cancer diagnosis. Now, he's a teenager transformed, rapping his St. Jude story with survivor songs full of rhyme and raw emotion, a soundtrack to a teenager's two-and-a-half year journey through darkness to light.
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Storied Lives
'You're The Reason I Built This Hospital'
January 17, 2019
Danny Thomas said it would be worth building St. Jude Children's Research Hospital if it saved just one child’s life. He might have been talking about an Arkansas country boy named Dwight Tosh. Tosh was St. Jude patient number 17.
