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• George Harrison Faked Beatles Signatures for Sick Kid

  How far would you go for a dying child? The late great George Harrison apparently figured a child's happiness meant a lot more than some silly authentification process. Handwriting experts have proven Harrison forged the signatures of his fellow Beatles on a photo in the late 1960s. Read More... Posted May 04 2009, 10:36 AM by JeanneSager with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Celebrities, music, Cancer, Beatles, leukemia, Jeanne Sager, sick children, terminally ill, George Harrison

• Ice, Ice Baby: Frozen Sperm Works, 22 Years Later

  After all the crazy stories of fertility treatments gone mad and nutty grandparents trying to extract sperm from the dead, it's refreshing to hear about the everyday miracles advanced reproductive technology can bring to parents who yearn for a child. Read More... Posted Apr 10 2009, 03:01 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Cancer, infertility, sperm, fertility, leukemia, sterility, sperm donation, in vitro, frozen sperm, chris biblis

• Teen Declines Heart Transplant

  At what age would you let your child make life-or-death decisions for herself? Is 13 too young? Hannah Jones' parents, Kirsty and Andrew Jones, don't think so.  They support their daughter's decision to reject a potentially life-saving heart transplant, even though doctors felt so strongly that Hannah should get the transplant that hospital authorities tried to have her removed from her parents' custody and forced to have the surgery.   Read More... Posted Nov 11 2008, 01:01 PM by Amy S.F. Lutz with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: leukemia, heart transplant, chemotherapy, life-or-death decision, hannah jones, right-to-die

• 33 year old mom wins silver medal, saves son from leukemia

  Dara Torres is an inspiration to many, competing in the Olympics at age 41, and winning. But I think the story of Oksana Chusovitina, a German gymnast, might be even more inspiring. Read More... Posted Aug 18 2008, 11:00 AM by Brett Singer with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: news, German, germany, athletics, competition, gymnastics, olympics, swimming, leukemia, nice stories, athletes, inspiring, Brett Singer, inspiration, beijing, olympics 08, olympics 2008, Dara Torres, things that are awesome, bouncing back from childbirth, medals, inspirational, silver medal, vault, oksana chusovitina

• Conceiving a Child to Save a Life

  At age 47, Pam Obadia is trying to conceive her second child. But that's not what makes the Vancouver mother's situation controversial. Obadia and her husband Mike have an 8-year-old with leukemia. Currently undergoing chemotherapy and unable to find a match that will allow him to get a bone marrow transplant, the boy's prognosis is not promising. So the Obadias are hoping to give birth to another infant and use the stems cells from the newborn's umbilical cord to save their existing child's life. Read More... Posted Apr 16 2008, 12:02 PM by Jen Chaney with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: IVF, stem cells, leukemia, bone marrow transplant, Jodi Picoult, getting pregnant over 40, invitro fertilization

• New York Mamas Join Kate Winslet for a Great Cause

  Kate Winslet is joining thousands of New York mamas to help fight the good fight:  Finding a bone marrow  donor for Lisa Gershowitz Flynn, a 41-year-old mother of two young children recently diagnosed with a deadly form of Leukemia and has only weeks to live. Winslet is using her celebrity to promote the website GiftforLisa.com and hopes her partnership with thousands of New York mamas will find a donor for Lisa. Read More... Posted Feb 19 2008, 10:43 AM by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: kate winslet, leukemia, lisa flynn, giftforlisa

• Fewer Kids Dying From Cancer

  There’s never been a better time to have a kid with cancer. Wait, that doesn’t sound quite right. What I’m trying to say is that deaths from childhood cancer are declining rapidly. The chances of surviving a number of cancers that strike young children fell 20 percent from 1990 to 2004. The big fall is mostly attributed to improvements in the treatment for leukemia. Death from cancer is the fourth-leading cause of death for children, that’s behind ... Read More... Posted Dec 10 2007, 08:27 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: research study, brain tumor, Cancer, suicide, childhood cancers, leukemia, homicide