Tonight's episode of my TV show, The Little Couple, will feature a truly exciting first for me: traveling to Washington, D.C. to advocate on Capitol Hill. AIMS, an organization of individuals and organizations committed to promoting health care simulation as a way to improve patient safety, invited me to be the keynote speaker at their annual meeting in March 2011.
This week, we launched the inaugural Community Health Improvement Week, designed to focus our time and effort to provide meaningful and needed education and services for the children and families of greater Houston and abroad.
Community Health Improvement Week is a national awareness event designed to:
I remember the moment when I learned that one of my close family members had cancer.
My name is Devin Duncan and I am an 18-year-old senior at Langham Creek High School. I am currently on the Bailadora drill team and am the reigning homecoming queen.
It would seem that I am a normal teenager, except for that I'm also a two-time cancer survivor.
When I was 3 years old, I was diagnosed with leukemia and underwent 2 1/2 years of chemotherapy treatment at Texas Children's Hospital.