The UnitedHealthcare Children's Foundation is dedicated to facilitating access to medical-related services that have the potential to significantly enhance either the clinical condition or the quality of life of the child and...
When 11-year-old Michael "Mikey" Parsons was just five, he and his two sisters lost their mother to cancer. Soon after, Susan and Rick Parsons and their two children from Peoria, Illinois adopted Mikey and his two...
Children who have medical needs are sometimes not insured comprehensively to provide coverage for all of their medical treatments. There are few places for families who have gaps in their commercial health benefit plan coverage to turn to for funding medically necessary services for their...
Cancer remains the number one disease that claims the lives of our children. Each year cancer kills more children under the age of 20 than asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis and AIDS combined.
Each year in the U.S., approximately 12,500 children and adolescents are diagnosed with...
Cancer remains the number one disease that claims the lives of our children. Each year cancer kills more children under the age of 20 than asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis and AIDS combined. Each year in the U.S., approximately 12,500 children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer. That...
It was the nightmare parents pray will never happen, yet it came true with blazing colors for the Webb family. On a weekend evening 28 years ago in Franklin, Tennessee, a drinking driver rear-ended the car carrying Millie, her husband Roy, their four-and-a-half-year-old daughter Lori and 19-...
The crisis in Egypt has heightened concerns about the well-being of the children in the care of Coptic Orphans, according to executive director Nermien Riad.
“I'm sure you have been glued to the news like I have been over the past week, watching the recent events in Egypt...
“The moment she turned 18, Laura Nunes joined the Marine Corps, looking for an intense challenge but also for any assurance that she would have a place to sleep and food to eat. By then, she was...
Camper Stephen was in the fourth grade when he learned that he had cancer. He went through chemotherapy, lost all of his hair, couldn't go to school and, as he puts it, "I just basically felt rotten for an entire year." He goes on to explain, "I could barely run, could...
I climbed up a narrow set of concrete stairs in a dark stairway that led into the small flat. Ramy's mother and his sisters were waiting for us. His mother began telling me about her sleepless nights and how Ramy had made a dramatic turnaround only a few months earlier. She said that she...
