Christina Echegaray Archive — Page 32 of 35
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June 27, 2013
Project Opportunity graduation
Project Opportunity, a 10-month job skills training program for individuals with developmental disabilities, recently celebrated its five new graduates. -
June 27, 2013
Annual telethon brings in $1.8 million for Children’s Hospital
The annual Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Telethon celebrated its 30th year on June 2, raising more than $1.8 million. All proceeds benefit the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, the local Children’s Miracle Network hospital. -
June 20, 2013
Program gives young patients creative outlet
Caleb Clark is a soft-spoken, polite 10-year-old boy who’s not overly talkative. But what emotions and feelings he doesn’t express with words come pouring out with a splash of water colors on paper — joy, sadness, anger, happiness and peace. -
June 6, 2013
Bone disease doesn’t slow Kid President’s campaign
Robby Novak has become known to the world as ‘Kid President,’ an online YouTube sensation spreading a message about how people can “make the world more awesome.” -
April 11, 2013
Therapy helps regenerate child’s undeveloped bones
Janelly Martinez-Amador was born with thin, fragile bones, and by 3, she had no visible bones on X-rays. Initially, doctors weren’t sure she would survive her first birthday. -
April 11, 2013
New clinic links pediatric sarcoma treatment services
J. Carlton Smith noticed severe pain in his knee five years ago during a lacrosse tournament. Smith, then 13 years old, never imagined hearing the diagnosis doctors would give him: osteosarcoma, a cancer of the bone.