The purple baby hats are for the Clicks for Babies Campaign by Prevent Child Abuse NJ and the National Center for Shaken Baby Syndrome. Remember, PURPLE stands for Peak of crying / Unexpected / ...

Your favorite knitting season has arrived: it's time to make chemo caps for JFK and Hunterdon medical centers. We have free patterns for knitting or crochet on our ...

Irene Olson never had cancer, but she knows how grueling chemotherapy can be. Her late husband, Kenneth, died in 1987 after two years of the drug treatments. Among the painful side effects he suffered ...

BACKGROUND: The chemo cold cap is soft, elastic, covered by a thermo insulate that is used to cool the scalps metabolism and blood flow, to protect the hair follicles from chemo drugs. Hair loss is an ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Some children and hospital employees thought they were doing something to help cancer patients by collecting plastic bottle caps, but experts say it's all a hoax. Some employees ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hair loss is one of chemotherapy's most despised side effects, not because of vanity but because it fuels stigma--revealing to the world an illness that many would rather keep ...