A bright, well-rounded young man, 20-year-old Nick Franca appears to have a bright future ahead of himThe 2009 graduate of Centreville High has a warm, close-knit family, a steady girlfriend and a semester of college under his beltHe also has neuroblastoma – the same, incurable childhood ca

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Three years ago, Claire Benn was born. A week later, she was diagnosed with Prader-Willi syndrome“We didn’t know what the diagnosis Prader-Willi meant, so the lack of knowledge was very scary,” said Claire’s mother, Cari BennPrader-Willi is a random, non-inherited genetic

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Brave Bethany Salmon isn't going to let anything – even pneumonia – stop her taking part in her first British Transplant GamesThe seven-year-old had a liver transplant in January last year so was unable to participate in the 2009 gamesBut this year she is raring to go, even though she

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A fundraising campaign has been launched to buy a seriously-ill youngster a wheelchairFour-year-old Charlie Wilkinson is thought to suffer from Leigh’s disease, leaving him unable to walk or talkDoctors do not expect him to live past the age of sevenBut he is keen to learn and uses a compu

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MILTON -- A Milton man with a history of helping individuals facing mounting medical expenses now finds himself in need of helpJosh Richard, 30, founded the Walk on Foundation to raise funds for those facing medical needs. The foundation was incorporated in September 2009 and has since provided $5

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The parents of a boy suffering from an incurable disease so rare that it only afflicts several dozen American children and teens every year say they're encouraged by news that gene-therapy clinical trials on humans could start next year"We're excited," said Jan Marquez, of 4S Ranch west of Rancho

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Houston, Texas -- Donald W. Will Parsons M.D.(Will) Parsons, M.D., a physician at Texas Children's Cancer Center and Baylor Colleges of Medicine, has been honored with a 2010 Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development AwardDr. Parsons, who works in collaboration with Dr. Richard Gibbs at Baylor Col

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A bone marrow donor has been found for Sgt. Brian Carter, the Martinez police officer diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma last yearCarter, 36, has been with the Martinez Police Dept. for 10 years. He received chemotherapy and radiation treatment and his disease, a cancer of the white blood

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The Grindle family is throwing quite a birthday bash at Flushing County Park this weekend, and the guest of honor is baby BenHe will only be six months old, but that is quite a milestone when one considers the odds are against him living past two yearsHealthFirst reporter Leslie Toldo tells us ho

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A six-year-old with a blood disorder so rare that he's the only person in New Zealand to be diagnosed with it has had all of his dreams come trueJoshua Carpenter couldn't wipe the grin off his face when the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted him with not one, but two wishes – a ride in a Lamborg

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