Babble

As if we weren't worried enough about childhood leukemias and pediatric neuroblastomas. A rash of recent news of young kids with traditionally adult cancers makes it that much scarier to be a parent these days. And here's another one! An eight-year-old girl in England has been diagnosed with...

I've spent the last month and a half knocking down doors trying to convince a lot of broke people to give me money so I could shave my head. Even in a bad economy, I hit my small goal of $1,000 raised for the St. Baldrick's Foundation - so you can all laugh at my very bald head. Ready for it...

Eluzar and Miriam Brody are facing perhaps the hardest situation any parent can encounter. Their son, Motl, had brain cancer. Now doctors say the twelve-year-old is brain dead, and they've recommended removing the boy from life support. But his heart, beating with the help of intravenous drugs, has...