According to a story from Newswise, Holly Becker was only 24 years old when she was first diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. However, her life was saved with a stem cell…
According to a story from the Warwick Beacon, the first ever primary immunodeficiency (PI) awareness and fundraising walk in Rhode Island's history was held recently at Warwick City Park. The…
As reported in 17 Magazine, at 17, Billie Eilish has rapidly become a huge celebrity with her life catapulted into the public eye. Part of being famous in 2019 means…
According to a story from dailypost.co.uk, it didn't take long for Catherine Kelly to determine that her three year old son had a brain tumor; in fact, she made the…
According to a story from Buzzfeed News, Maria Isabel Bueso was born in Guatemala with mucopolysaccharidosis VI, also known as Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome. At age seven she traveled to the US…
According to a story from the Sunday Post, sisters Shona and Kirsty Young, aged 24 and 29 years respectively, were both born with the devastating rare disease cystic fibrosis. However,…
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In 1996, Tim Green made the comment that you cannot go through an NFL season without doing serious damage to your body. In a recent 60 Minutes interview with Steve…
As my children are getting older they seem to create elaborate stories of why they didn’t clean up their room or complete any other task on their to-do list. I’ve…
According to a story from National Pain Report, Jill Konowich was well on her way to becoming a medical doctor. She was studying at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.…
According to a story from Palo Alto Online, it was only a few months into the life of Aleksandr Kostanyan when parents Svetlana Sargsyan and Tigran Kostanyan realized that something…
There is a little boy in South Africa who is the only one in the country to be reported to have the ultra-rare neurodevelopmental disorder called alternating hemiplegia of…
According to a story from Comic Sands, mother Alison Beesley is now committed to taking care of her daughters Eliza and Eleanor full time. Eliza is nine years old and…
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A recent article published in Curetoday highlights not only the many new and successful therapies available to cancer patients but it also illustrates how patients can connect to other…
According to a story from Oklahoma's Nursing Times, Chrissy Brady was surprised one day when she began to lose feeling in her left leg. Then, for the next month, she…
Have you ever been judged by others for the things you do or the way you live your life? I know this is a rhetorical question because we have all…
When I was 30, I developed a painful neurological movement disorder called dystonia. It totally turned my life upside down where I went from being fully functional and very active,…
When Amber Freed and her husband Mark resorted to an in-vitro fertilization (IVF) baby they were overjoyed when they found out they were pregnant and were welcoming two new…
According to a story from Express Digest, 22 year old Steph Todd first started experiencing symptoms of Lyme disease in 2015, when she presented with flu-like symptoms and a circular…
Usually when people think of a seizure disorder, they think of something called tonic-clonic seizures or episodes where a person loses consciousness, has muscle stiffness, spasms, and jerky movements.…
According to a story from the St. Helens Star, Claire Riley, the mother of Kaycee Bradshaw, said in a recent statement that she would not hesitate to move out of…
According to a story from Direct Relief, when Yusra was just a year old, she began to have mysterious bouts of fever. Her family had no explanation. By age three,…
Brenda has both psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis. She's lived with the conditions since she was a child, learning to care for herself and deal with the challenges that arose. By…
According to a story from True Viral News, anyone who has tried to get something done through governmental means are probably familiar with getting rebuffed and redirected at every turn.…
SMARD is such a rare disease that only 100 children in the entire world have been diagnosed with it. SMARD stands for spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress. SMARD…
15-year-old George Taylor reached out to NY Giants Running Back Saquon Barkley, telling the star NFL player how he's an inspiration to him for when he undergoes his chemotherapy for Ewing's sarcoma,…
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