Never Giving Up
My name is Ayis. When I was young I had dreams of being a top athlete and going to the Olympics like my father had done before me all […]
Katie’s Headache Won’t Go Away
March 18th, 2012|
Katie had been complaining of headaches in retrospect for about a year. I chalked it up to a taste for grape flavored children’s Tylenol and a flair for the […]
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Jack Hoffman, 6 year old brain tumor survivor, and Nebraska Cornhuskers Running Back, Rex Burkhead Team up to raise Awareness
March 18th, 2012|
Jack Hoffman, 6 year old brain tumor survivor, and Nebraska Cornhuskers Running Back, Rex Burkhead team up to help raise national awareness about PLGA, an orphan disease.
Media Coverage:
Nebraska v. […]
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College Students Raise Funds for Research
December 13th, 2006|
Students from across the country are uniting to raise money and increase awareness about the most common forms of childhood brain tumor.
Starting at Boston University (BU) in 2006, college […]
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A Message of Hope – From a Patient’s Perspective
August 18th, 2006|
This is a story written by a 25-year-old student at Columbia University who recently was diagnosed with a brainstem JPA. Told by many doctors that he was inoperable, he […]
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A Mother’s Story
August 18th, 2006|
Date: August, 2006
Mary Pat, mother: Hi, I looked at your website today and felt compelled to share my son Jack’s story of JPA. We have several reasons for sharing […]
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