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Katie Couric adds star power to women’s health event
When TV host Katie Couric underwent a colonoscopy procedure on-air during the Today Show, she changed the way health and medicine is covered in the… Read More »Katie Couric adds star power to women’s health event
Gene Friday Series: Prevention is Cure
This blog is the final post of our four-part "Gene" Fridays series on cancer genetics. The dream Dr. Bert Vogelstein and his team hope to realize is… Read More »Gene Friday Series: Prevention is Cure
Gene Friday Series: The Encyclopedia Analogy
This blog is part 3 of 4 of our "Gene" Fridays series on cancer genetics. To help people understand the complexity of cancer and the series… Read More »Gene Friday Series: The Encyclopedia Analogy
Kimmel in the Community
Kimmel Cancer Center employees at the Living Classrooms Foundation A “Kimmel in the Community” team spent the afternoon on May 29, 2013, at the Living… Read More »Kimmel in the Community
Rally for Medical Research Draws Thousands
Thousand of scientists, clinicians, patients, students and advocates rallied today in Washington, D.C. to support federal funding of medical research. Across the street, the American Association… Read More »Rally for Medical Research Draws Thousands
Bo’s Song: Brave and True
Yesterday afternoon, singer Savannah Outen met Bo Oliver, a 16 year-old cancer patient at Johns Hopkins. She had spoken with him by phone a few… Read More »Bo’s Song: Brave and True
The Hope Project
***This post was written by Anna Ferguson, RN, BSN, research nurse and leader of The Hope Project at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. "Hope… Read More »The Hope Project
Waiting Room Observations
Over the last thirty years, about every decade I’ve found myself in a cancer center waiting room--first in 1984 with my husband, in 1999 with… Read More »Waiting Room Observations
Sharsheret
Rochelle Shoretz was first diagnosed with early stage breast cancer at age 28, and then with metastatic breast cancer at age 37. She is now the founder… Read More »Sharsheret