Fevers disappear with tonsil removal - Houston Chronicle
By the time Robbie Stankard was 14 months old, he had been to the emergency room 19 times. Every time the symptom was the same, a fever of 103.8. The doctors ran tests, scary tests, looking for things like leukemia, things that would make Robbie's

Ark. court: Cancer claim against poultry firms can proceed - Forbes
Arkansas poultry producers are again the targets of a lawsuit claiming the chicken litter they used caused a man's leukemia. The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a lower-court ruling from two years ago and found Michael Green and his

Tacoma Marathon: A picturesque tour of T-town - Tacoma News Tribune
The women from Celebration Lutheran Church in Puyallup gathered Saturday morning in the middle of Commerce Street in downtown Tacoma for pre-marathon race photographs. Ages 17 to 76, they crowded around their coach, Cheryl White, who wore a white

Flashes of Hope - KCRG.com
MARION — Doctors diagnose thousands of children with cancer every year. It's a heartbreaking, difficult situation for parents and kids to understand and handle. The VanWey family found out their youngest daughter had leukemia about a year ago. The

Art teacher Weider was avid outdoorswoman - Miami Herald
To her students at West Kendall's Claude Pepper Elementary School, Shawnn Wieder was the elegant and stylishly dressed art teacher with long blond hair, bright blue eyes and an illuminating smile. They didn't know her other side: hunter, angler and

Health Calendar - Austin American-Statesman
Flu shots 8 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. today and Wednesday: 350 Discovery Blvd., Suite 102, Cedar Park, 260-4240; 8 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesday: 115 W. Sixth St., Taylor, 238-2121; 8 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, and 8