Molly Oldham and her mother
Bunny
McCain, whose father
John McCain died of Glioblastoma, introduced the segment by telling viewers that May is Brain Tumor Awareness Month, explaining that 700,000 Americans are effect by the illness.
The host then aired footage of Molly throughout her battle with brain cancer, which she was diagnosed with while graduating from high school.
Molly and Bunny explained that once Molly’s migraines got to the point where she was “nonfunctional” and she was no longer her “happy-go-lucky self,” she went to the hospital, where they did a CT scan and discovered a cancerous brain tumor.
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2. When COVID-19 struck, this nurse stepped up to prove what she is capable of.
Andrea Dalzell had never seen a nurse in a wheelchair before, so she decided to become one! After going through 33 surgeries for her own genetic condition, Andrea knew she wanted to help others like they’d helped her.
3. Nurse sings beautiful duet with teen battling brain cancer.
Molly Oldham dreams of becoming a Broadway star, but cancer sidelined her briefly in 2019. While she was recovering in the hospital, a nurse stopped by for a quick duet… and they wound up going seriously viral!
Cervical cancer could be eliminated soon. So why are American women losing ground?
Decades of research have provided the tools to eliminate cervical cancer. Yet, every two hours a woman in the U.S. dies of this preventable cancer.
Anna Giuliano and Tamika Felder
Opinion contributors
Instead of working with more urgency to prevent the unnecessary deaths of thousands of American women every year, the U.S. is moving in the wrong direction, particularly in the lack of effort to improve rates of cervical cancer screening.
Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom have taken up the charge with fervor, developing strategies tailored to their countries, racing each other to see which can be the first to achieve cervical cancer elimination.
Frank Martinez and his wife, Masako, have been inseparable since they day they met, according to their niece.
The coronavirus forced the couple, who have been married for 63 years, to be apart. After contracting COVID-19, the two were admitted to an Illinois hospital on separate days and received treatment in different areas.
To bring the two back together, two nurses planned a date night for the couple. They both wanted to see each other so badly, Kim Presson, Masako Terry Martinez s nurse at St. Elizabeth s Hospital, told USA TODAY.
Presson recalled Masako, 86, often asking for her husband since she was hospitalized on Jan. 22. When Frank, 93, was admitted three days later, he began asking about his wife s condition.