Valerie Fund Inspires People To Fight Cancer, Blood Disorders
The Valerie Fund's help has inspired families and a whole town to come out and rally for the cause of fighting cancer and blood disorders, WCBS 880's John Metaxas reported.
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The Valerie Fund's help has inspired families and a whole town to come out and rally for the cause of fighting cancer and blood disorders, WCBS 880's John Metaxas reported.
For cancer patients who once saw darkness ahead, there is now light, and a bright future helping others. It's because of the help of the Valerie Fund, WCBS 880's John Metaxas reported.
For teenagers with leukemia, there is hope, and it comes from the Valerie Fund, as WCBS 880's John Metaxas found out.
The 19th Annual Bikers Against Breast Cancer Run will take place in Queens on Sunday. Funds raised by the 30 mile ride will benefit SHAREing & CAREing Inc, a Queens based cancer support group.
Robin Gibb, a founding member of the Bee Gees who helped propel the group to international stardom, has died. He was 62.
In an effort to help other families, the Weipperts started the Sarah Grace Foundation, which provides gift cards for food, parking at the hospitals and transportation for those families whose children are battling cancer.
Cancer survivor Mike Cohen rode his bike more than 3,000 miles from California to Long Island to thank the oncologist he credits with saving his life.
If you like getting creative and fighting breast cancer, then you should get involved in the Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline Creative Cups fundraiser.
The Giants did not release a cause or place of death. Robinson was diagnosed with cancer in 2009, according to a family statement posted on the caringbridge.org hospice site.
The Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program is looking for volunteers for the hotline.
"By pretending to have a terminal illness, Vega inexcusably took advantage of the community's hearts and minds, and profited off of their generosity," said Attorney General Schneiderman.
A health advisory committee has recommended that certain cancers be included in coverage under the Zadroga Act.
20 Clarkstown police officers will go after a different kind of bad guy this weekend, pediatric cancer.
Josia Cotto, his family, and his friends refuse to give in to overwhelming odds. Cotto has only been able to go to school a handful of times since been diagnosed with a rare, inoperable brain tumor seven months ago.
Rep. Donald Payne, dean of the New Jersey Congressional delegation, died Tuesday morning at the age of 77 at St. Barnabas Hospital after a battle with colon cancer.
For five years Iris Marcus had been approved for conditional Access-A-Ride service, meaning that she would take a bus or subway to meet her ride. But Marcus was getting door-to-door service instead. However, Marcus said she's lost that service.
CVS pharmacy said its Chatham location may have given as many as 50 families the breast cancer fighting drug Tamoxifen, instead of fluoride tablets for children, over the last 60 days.
For Tony Gwynn, his repeated use of chewing tobacco during his twenty year career has caused his recent struggles with mouth cancer.
When a Long Island contractor heard about the story of a cancer patient, he had to help.
Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter, whose single for the New York Mets in the 1986 World Series touched off one of the most improbable rallies in baseball, died Thursday. He was 57.
Congress has set aside billions of dollars to compensate and treat people suffering from illnesses potentially caused by the clouds of soot and smoke released on Sept. 11, 2001.
Some elected officials had called on the city to disclose information sought by Mount Sinai Medical Center ahead of a federal review. Officials will consider whether cancer should be added to the illnesses covered by the Zadroga act.
Retired EMS assistant chief John McFarland was revered within the FDNY, and today he is being laid to rest after dying from a brain tumor linked to his service after the attacks of 9/11.
Mark Herzlich took the radiation. He took the chemo. He had the tumor removed, replaced with a steel rod that runs down the inside of his femur. And he kept his chin up.
Dianos Guerrero Baez is battling leukemia and the best matches for a bone marrow transplant were killed in the crash of American Airlines flight 587.
