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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a pediatric treatment and research hospital headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded by entertainer Danny Thomas in 1962, it is a 501(c)(3) designated nonprofit medical corporation which focuses on children's catastrophic diseases, particularly leukemia and other cancers. [ 1 ]
Cure4Kids is a web-based education project of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Its goal is to help health professionals in countries with limited resources improve the survival rates of children with life-threatening illnesses, including pediatric cancer, sickle cell disease, and HIV/AIDS. The Cure4Kids website provides access to online ...
St. Jude's Children's Hospital produced one-hour special TV show, Fighting for Life that featured Ben Bowen as one of six patients being treated for childhood cancer at Saint Jude. [17] Alan Alda narrated Bowen's story. This special has been broadcast a number of times since its first airing in 2005 and has raised substantial funds for cancer ...
To cover these costs, ALSAC has been raising more than $1 billion annually for the hospital through its more than 30,000 fund-raising activities. [7] Notable fund-raising programs for the hospital include the FedEx St. Jude Classic, which is a PGA Tour event, Up 'til Dawn, and the St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend. Other fund-raising programs ...
For the better part of the last six months, Beckett has been living in Tennessee at St. Jude's Hospital, battling ATRT brain cancer - a very rare, fast-growing tumour. Family of three-year-old ...
In 1986, Downing was recruited by hematopathologist Coston W. Berard and began working at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital with Charles J. Sherr. [3] He became Chairman of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in 1997 and Deputy Director in 2011. [ 4 ]
On November 24, 1953, the hilltop property on which St. Jude Hospital was later built was blessed and dedicated. St. Jude's Hospital was publicly dedicated on May 11, 1957, with 2000 spectators in attendance as well as dignitaries including Congressman James B. Utt and Cardinal James McIntyre, Archbishop of Los Angeles. [7]
Double-glazing salesman Eddie McKenna is asked to leave his long-term hospital radio show, but is invited to re-establish the radio station at St Jude's, a psychiatric hospital. He meets Campbell Bain, a 19-year-old patient who has manic depression, and Nana, a patient said to be "speaking in tongues" and always humming a tune. Eddie is ...