Tag Results for "Philippines"

Anna Maria's eyes light up when she speaks of her beloved students. A math teacher to 17 year olds, a volunteer pre-school teacher and a mother of two girls, she's used to caring for others.  But when she started to get sick, she was the one who needed care.  It started with blood in her stools and unexplained weight loss. … More

Little Mark is a small thin boy with huge brown eyes.  He is pale and lethargic for a six-year-old.  His mother, Rosie, is soft spoken and looks tired - with good reason.  Her hands are full: both of her boys have hemophilia and Mark just recently had another bleed. Hemophilia causes a protein deficiency in the blood, which prevents… More

Pfizer partners with the National Cancer Coalition to provide medicine access to underserved patients in the developing world.  Over the years, NCC and Pfizer have collaborated to provide significant donations in which thousands of patients with serious diseases like cancer, hemophilia, depression and other illnesses have received the therapies… More

The National Cancer Coalition (NCC) is pleased to announce that it recently received a $25,000 grant award from the Hospira Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Hospira, Inc., to support its pharmaceutical relief program within the Dominican Republic. NCC is seeking to significantly increase the levels of medical resources that it provides to the… More

Aetna (NYSE: AET) recently awarded a $20,000 grant to the National Cancer Coalition (NCC), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to reduce the suffering of cancer patients and their families by providing medical and financial relief, research, and educational programs throughout the world in an effort to improve patients' quality of life.… More