ABC anchor Robin Roberts to undergo bone marrow transplant
Five years off a fight with breast cancer, Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts faces another battle with her health.
Five years off a fight with breast cancer, Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts faces another battle with her health.
Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts has been diagnosed with a blood and bone marrow disease called myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a condition once known as pre-leukemia.
Ashley Pearce is nearly 24 years old, a month away from being married and needs a double lung transplant. Pearce, who graduated from Eureka High School in 2006, was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at age 5, according to her stepfather, Linus
Eleven-year-old Madison Taliaferro has had to make some tough decisions in the past few months. Diagnosed at age 2 with cystic fibrosis, she has two types of life-threatening bacteria growing in her body. In March she learned her health was deteriorati…
Flora Michelle Vouglitois has worked 16 years for the Broward Sheriff's Office, and if she weren't ill these days, she would be ensuring people's safety in her high-energy job as a detention deputy.
Patients with cystic fibrosis live well into their 30s and 40s, but their pyscho-social needs are often ignored during long hospital stays.
Timothy Brown made medical history when he became the first patient who was essentially cured of HIV, after receiving a stem cell transplant from a person who was genetically resistant to the infection.
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Ray Jonasson is back to health after a liver transplant and running the race that took him down.