A major fundraiser to support cancer research and programs for the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Phoenix Children’s Hospital is continuing to build on its holiday tradition.

A major fundraiser to support cancer research and programs for the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Phoenix Children’s Hospital is continuing to build on its holiday tradition.

Arizona United Blood Services needs about 300 people to donate blood, with a particular need for donors with O-negative blood types, on Nov. 10 as Thanksgiving gets closer and people get busier. “Once people get into their holiday activities many things take precedence over donating blood for many people,” said Sue Thew, United Blood Services spokeswoman.

At home, Rosie Garcia has a lot of pets — dogs, cats, fish and birds, doves to be exact, named Cloud and Sun.

It’s not hard for the typical 6-year-old to find something to complain about. A broken toy. Staying up late. No ice cream before dinner.

Emphasizing a special need for “Type O-negative” donors, 24 Arizona hospitals — including five in the East Valley area — are urging potential blood donors to donate now in preparation for the Independence Day holiday rush next month.

After the better part of a year battling leukemia and living in a hospital, an 8-year-old Chandler girl is finally going home — thanks in no small part to the support of the East Valley community that’s been rallying around her, and a lifesaving gift from her brother.

Give the perfect gift, donate blood

A tradition at Phoenix Children’s Hospital that often has featured the work of young patients from the East Valley is marking a milestone filled with holiday spirit and artistic flare.

Higley Road is becoming a key address in the medical community, and property for sale around those sites could house medical pads in the future.

Kickoff at Relay for Life of Chandler

A new cancer drug being tested at Scottsdale Healthcare is the latest weapon medical researchers are using in their fight against ovarian cancer.

Surviving your first year as a nurse will likely be one of the biggest challenges you will face in your career. Almost universally, first-year nurses have days, weeks or months when they feel overwhelmed, inadequate, disillusioned, stressed out or all of the above.

The health care construction boom continues in the East Valley as Phoenix Children’s Hospital breaks ground today for a specialty and urgent care center in Mesa.

The number of physicians available to the state’s population is below the national average, a warning sign that access to health care could be more difficult in the future, according to researchers of a report released Monday.

The number of physicians available to the state’s population is below the national average, a warning sign that access to health care could be more difficult in the future, according to researchers of a report released Monday.

April 6, 2005

Families of young people who need blood and bone marrow transplants will soon be spared the 120-mile journey down Interstate 10 to Tucson for treatment.