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Jane McGrath's memorial service was attended by many mourners clad in pink, the color that symbolizes the fight against breast cancer to which McGrath recently lost her battle . In a tender and bittersweet gesture McGrath's children, James and Holly, blew bubbles outside of the church, a tribute...

Tens of thousands of children may face a lifetime of health problems due to living in FEMA trailers in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Formaldehyde, a cancer-causing substance, has been found in FEMA trailers at levels five times what is considered safe. Months after Katrina I remember commentators...

As if having cancer weren't enough of a kick in the head, parents who are also patients then have to explain to their kids what having cancer means. It's hard to know which would be worse -- facing your own potentially close-by mortality or figuring out how to drive that information home to your...

Angelina Jolie's mom, Marcheline Bertrand , passed away one year ago today. Jolie and her brother James Haven will mark the anniversary of her death with a day long vigil. The siblings will visit Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai hospital where Marcheline passed away, at age 57 of ovarian cancer. Angelina...

Sigh. Yeah, I suppose it makes a good flashy news item, the idea that David Beckham would shine on a group of kids who also happened to be cancer survivors. Like next we'll get, "David Beckham kicks puppies" and "David Beckham is a holocaust denier." And the story goes that a...

When I was a kid, no one used sunscreen. Once in awhile we'd slather on some Coppertone (or worse yet, baby oil!), but that was at the pool or the beach, and it was strictly for better tanning, not for sun protection. Which makes me a prime candidate for melanoma mutations, since the highest risk for...

Time to rethink that trip to Tuscany : a German study of close to 2200 kids found that the more often a child's family vacationed in sunny, southern climes, the more likely the child was to have multiple melanocytic nevi, moles that are a precursor to melanoma. Yikes. Trips to northern destinations did...

The media is great about telling us all the reasons why our kids are fat, but when it comes to giving parents and kids actual tools to use to help this problem, things fall a little short. Oh sure, there's vague talk about "playing outside more" and "eating better", obvious advice to those who are already...

I'm all verklempt here from reading this article. Here, you do it , I can't. Okay, I'm better now. Stay-at-home dad Dave Hall has cancer and was given six months to live. He needs $10,000 to get from where he lives in the U.K. to the U.S. for treatment for his three-inch brain tumor, so his three kids...

Yep, there's nothing that shows support for a cause like whipping a razor over your head, and nine friends and family members of 7-year-old Zach Nawas have the shorn locks to prove it. Zach, a Louisiana second-grader, is losing his hair in treatments for Hodgkin's lymphoma , a form of cancer of the lymphatic...