The last eight months have been up and down for Rob Long. But on August 2, Rob got what he had been hoping for: a chance to show an NFL team that he could play at the professional level. With the NFL lockout finally over and training camps underway, the Cleveland Browns asked Long to more »
Three-year-old Chujin Yu from China had arrived in Philadelphia with her parents for the treatment of a recurrence of rare cancer affecting her eye called retinoblastoma.
A new device adds to the arsenal of Jefferson vascular neurosurgeons – the most experienced and busiest team in the greater Philadelphia region. After a hot summer day working in the garden at the North Philadelphia boarding house owned by her parents, Belinda Cook lay down for a nap. Two weeks later she woke up more »
Two years ago a friend of mine died of colorectal cancer. Jason grew up with my wife in North Carolina. He was two years older – a member of my brother-in-law’s group of friends who was still close to his buddy’s kid sister. I met him four years before he died at my brother-in-law’s wedding. more »
Judy Wickersham wanted to dance at her son Jon’s wedding. Normally that wouldn’t be a big deal, but Judy’s case was unusual because she needed a heart transplant, and a history of cancer disqualified her from being listed for a new organ. That was, to say the least ironic, because her heart failure was the more »