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Boy’s Touching Plea on Craigslist to Help Mom Battling Cancer
Twelve-year-old Devon Melton overheard his mother's desperate phone call. She was crying because the family faced financial troubles due to her recent bout with...
Wedding Services All Conjured Last-Minute for Bride With Sudden, Severe Cancer
Proof that human kindness and generosity has not gone out of style, a wedding planner worked for weeks with volunteers and vendors in April...
17-Year-old Builds Algae Biofuel Lab in Her Bedroom to Win $100,000
A student passionate about biofuel set up a lab in her bedroom, complete with bubbling beekers, and ended up winning this year’s Intel Science...
Peru Passes 10-Year Ban on Genetically Engineered Foods
Despite pressure from multinational agri-business corporations such as Monsanto, the Peruvian Environment Minister announced this week that the government has approved a new regulation...
Man Shaves Head to Support Wife, Luckily Finds His Own Cancer
When Dolly Stringer was diagnosed with breast cancer in April, she decided to shave her head before beginning her chemotherapy.
Now, the woman, who lives...
Addicted to Drugs, Yet the Greatest Surgeon America Ever Produced
The most renown American surgeon was born 160 years ago today on September 22, 1852. A new film documents the work of the medical...
The Best Cancer Ever
Mike Stevens is one of the funniest guys I know. In spite of getting wrung through the soul-flattenin’, hand-crankin’ washing machine of cancer treatment...
(UPDATED) Planned Parenthood Raises $650,000 in Donations After Susan G. Komen Kills Grants
(UPDATE, Feb. 3: The Susan G. Koman group reversed their decision to defund Planned Parenthood, bowing to a tide of negative critisism from supporters...
Growth After Disaster: Going Beyond Resilience
It seems whenever we turn on the TV these days we witness disastrous scenes of flooding, fires, and typhoons forcing people from their homes...
‘Wedding Pink’ Donates Dream Wedding For Cancer Survivor
Two decades ago, a wedding photographer battled breast cancer. Now, Cheryl Ungar is giving back by making wedding dreams come true for couples like...
Blood Test to Spot Cancer Gets Big Boost
One of the most exciting developments in cancer research in the past decade involves trials going on right now at four cancer treatment centers...
Cancer Survivor Plants Sunflower Field, Sending Ripples Throughout Community
Nancy Siegler of Cameron Park, California knows first-hand the hope, strength and power of the sunflower. She started planting sunflowers last year after she...
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MBA Grads who are Optimists Find Jobs Faster and With Less Effort
We've seen the studies that show optimistic people are less likely to get heart and lung disease or breast cancer, and are generally happier.
A...
Obama Honors 13 Citizens for Their Good Deeds
This week, President Barack Obama awarded the 2010 Citizens Medal to 13 outstanding Americans who have "performed exemplary deeds of service for their country...
Civil Rights Hero Lena Horne, 92, Redefined Black Roles in Film (Video Tribute)
President Obama marked the passing of Lena Horne, calling her a great entertainer and a tireless worker for justice and equality. The American...
Ellen Unveils US Postal Stamps of Actual Shelter Animals to Promote Adoption
The Postmaster General unveiled new Animal Rescue commemorative postage stamps on the Ellen DeGeneres Show yesterday, launching the Stamps to the Rescue promotional campaign.
The...
Top Ten Innovations You’ve Never Heard Of
Here are the Top Ten Innovations from 2009 that will lead us, with chin up, into the next decade. From new technologies that strip...
For Your Health: Use Hand Sanitizers Without Triclosan
This is worth sharing with everyone you know as schools, hospitals and offices are distributing vast amounts of hand sanitizer gels to help prevent...
Canadians Make Breakthrough in How Cancer Spreads
In a world first, Canadian scientists have decoded all three billion letters in the DNA sequence of a metastatic breast cancer tumor and identified...
New Cancer Drug Zaps Cells Before They Spread
A cancer drug that destroys the deadly cells which give birth to tumours has been developed by U.S. scientists.