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As she does nearly every day in good weather, Hilary Armstrong pushed off from a dock on the Schuylkill and used her powerful arms, legs and torso to begin rowing her four-person boat.
Hospital's DNA offers lead on neuroblastoma's cause.
Using DNA samples donated by thousands of patients at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, doctors have found a lead in their hunt for the causes of neuroblastoma, the baffling cancer that killed Alex of Alex's Lemonade Stand at age 8.
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Inquirer environmental reporter Sandy Bauers writes on how to live a more ecologically sensitive life.
What is your first instinct when you see someone who is disfigured, deformed or just plain different? To look away? To react by rote?
Dealing with breast cancer is an ordeal too many women face. Sandra Long, Inquirer managing editor, tells her story, from diagnosis to drawing strength from faith and friends, in her blog, "In Sandra's Shoes."
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A child's catastrophic illness. Her parents' emotional ordeal. And a hospital's fight to save a little girl.


