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It's the local stories of cities and communities coming together for a shared cause that resonate the most here at Impact. Beau's Buddies Cancer Fund'...
Cristie Kerr | Posted 10.22.2009 | Impact
Breast cancer has touched the lives of nearly all of us in some way and we all need to take an active role in educating others and supporting advances in research.
Shira Lazar | Posted 10.15.2009 | Impact
Celebs tend to get a bad rap when their philanthropic gestures make headlines. However, can't using Twitter and online tools for social good be looked at as the modern day marathon?
Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact
On the heels of LIVESTRONG Day 2009,held on October 2, comedian Drew Carey has publicly pledged via Twitter to raise his donation to Lance Armstrong's...
Kathy Plesser, MD | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living
Two breast surgeons, Dr. Beth Siegel and Dr. Deborah Axelrod, talk about what it is like to break the news to a woman that she has breast cancer.
Susan Sawyers | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
Rsearchers, although grateful for the TARP money, say what's needed is a long-term financial commitment without the shackles of spending deadlines and separate accounting for federal funding.
nytimes.com | GINA KOLATA | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living
The cancer institute has spent $105 billion since President Richard M. Nixon declared war on the disease in 1971. The American Cancer Society, the lar...
ABC News | Posted 06.27.2009 | Living
Stand Up To Cancer, the charitable initiative launched last year and aimed at getting new cancer treatments to patients as quickly as possible, will a...
Bill Paxton | Posted 06.27.2009 | Entertainment
On May 9th, Stephen Bruton became one of the 1,500 people that die everyday from cancer. That's a mind-numbing statistic. Unfortunately such statistics can go ignored.
Lisa Paulsen | Posted 06.27.2009 | Living
Stand Up To Cancer has raised $73.6 million for SU2C "Dream Teams" of top scientists at different institutions to help them get promising new treatments to cancer patients -- and do it fast.
Senate Guru | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics
Critics say the layout of specterforthecure.com itself obscures the fact that what looks like a solicitation for medical research is really just a campaign cash come-on.
Don McNay | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business
I'm not the only person thinking twice about giving money to charity. Or about spending money. Most people have the same kind of hesitation that I have. And this compounds the financial crisis problem.
Laura Ziskin | Posted 12.18.2008 | Entertainment
This past September 5th, Stand Up to Cancer launched in a powerful way... we raised more than $100 million for innovative cancer research projects.
Marissa Moss | Posted 09.11.2008 | Entertainment
Superchunk, The Rosebuds and Birds of Avalon will be playing a concert to benefit the Cy Rawls Benevolance fund on August 29th at Cat's Cradle in NC.
Deirdre Imus | Posted 08.13.2008 | Living
It goes without saying; families who have children diagnosed with cancer and children's health advocates commend Congress for recognizing the need for the Childhood Cancer Act.
Buck Goldstein | Posted 07.09.2008 | Business
Dr. Joe DeSimone has just won a big invention award for nano-particles that are 100x smaller than a red blood cell and as smart as a microprocessor.
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Posted 10.27.2009 | Impact