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07.18.2016
Prayers from Maria Founder, Ed McNamara, will lead the Pledge of Allegiance on the first night of the Republican National Convention.
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05.16.2016
A local teacher will spend part of his summer break seeing the country, getting a lot of exercise, and raising money for research for brain tumors in children.
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04.09.2016
Cleveland International Film Festival features short film "From the Ground Up: Grassroots Against Cancer".
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04.08.2016
Cornell researchers have discovered a way to penetrate the blood brain barrier that may soon permit delivery of drugs directly into the brain to treat chemo-resistant cancers.
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02.24.2016
American Brain Tumor Association funds first comprehensive study of 15-39 year-old population.
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12.15.2015
A Case Western Reserve Universtiy researcher has received a five-year, $2.82 million National Institutes of Health grant to make, inessence, stealth bombs that slip past the brain's defenses to attack an incurable form of cancer.
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09.02.2015
Under the direction of Mark Kieran, MD, PhD, Director of Pediatric Medical Neuro-Oncology, and Keith Ligon, MD, PhD, Director of Neuro-Oncologic Pathology, Dana-Farber investigators are leading the way in uncovering new information about the biological underpinnings of DIPG and the ultimate aim of improving outcomes for young patients with these tumors.
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07.27.2015
Sometimes it's scary to think just how much life can change in the blink of an eye. One area family found out just how true that is after their son was diagnosed with a very serious form of brain cancer.
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07.15.2015
When it comes to annual cancer funding from the federal goverment, childhood cancer only receives 4 percent of those funds.
The McNamaras knew they had to do more after losing their daughter Maria to cancer at age 7.
Just last year, Prayers from Maria was able to donate $250,000 to research at Case Western Reserve University Cancer Center.
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07.11.2015
Fox 8's Tracy McCool took a break from the news Friday to host the Sunflower Soiree to benefit Prayers from Maria.
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