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“The Cost of Cancer Drugs”

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Recently, 60 Minutes ran a story about the inflated prices of new cancer drugs.

Here is how the segment began (from 60 Minutes website):

Cancer is so pervasive that it touches virtually every family in this country. More than one out of three Americans will be diagnosed with some form of it in their lifetime. And as anyone who’s been through it knows, the shock and anxiety of the diagnosis is followed by a second jolt: the high price of cancer drugs.

They are so astronomical that a growing number of patients can’t afford their co-pay, the percentage of their drug bill they have to pay out-of-pocket. This has led to a revolt against the drug companies led by some of the most prominent cancer doctors in the country

Feel Good Friday: Basketball and Friendship

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Feel Good Friday: Basketball and Friendship

In Syracuse Nation, we are all still reeling from an early exit from the NCAA tournament.  Although I’d like to forget about basketball for awhile longer, this edition of Feel Good Friday brings a heartwarming story a high school basketball team and friendship.  I should note: this is a story lowers your spirits (cancer), before raising them.

Here is a description of this Steve Hartman story from the CBS website:

Steve Hartman meets a high school basketball team in North Carolina that decided to play one game for someone other than themselves … and when the game came down to the wire, something remarkable happened.

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Feel Good Friday: Basketball and Friendship

/ Matthew Clemente / Leave a comment

Feel Good Friday: Basketball and Friendship

In Syracuse Nation, we are all still reeling from an early exit from the NCAA tournament.  Although I’d like to forget about basketball for awhile longer, this edition of Feel Good Friday brings a heartwarming story a high school basketball team and friendship.  I should note: this is a story lowers your spirits (cancer), before raising them. 

Here is a description of this Steve Hartman story from the CBS website: 

Steve Hartman meets a high school basketball team in North Carolina that decided to play one game for someone other than themselves … and when the game came down to the wire, something remarkable happened.

 

Feel Good Friday: Hero Coach Halt School Shooting

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Feel Good Friday: Hero Coach Halt School Shooting 

Several weeks ago, CBS’s 60 Minutes told the amazing story of Frank Hall, an assistant football coach at Chardon High School.  When a a shooter entered the high school and started spraying gunfire into a crowd of students, Hall confronted the shooter and chased him out of the building.

Here is how the story began:

Two years ago this week three students were killed and three were wounded in a high school shooting you probably don’t remember because there are so many. An assistant football coach named Frank Hall helped stop that shooting. But when we sat down with him recently, Hall told us he wished there was no reason to know his name or, God forbid, think of him as a hero. He’s the type you’d call a “regular guy.”

On February 27th, 2012, Hall was doing what he always did. With hugs and fist bumps, he kept order among a hundred kids gathering in the school cafeteria before class. Then, Hall was confronted by a question no one can truly answer. What would you do at the sound of gunfire? No time to think. There’s only the reflex of character. This is the story of a fraction of a second and the months of consequences that follow. . . .

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Feel Good Friday: Hero Coach Halt School Shooting

/ Matthew Clemente / Leave a comment

Feel Good Friday: Hero Coach Halt School Shooting

Several weeks ago, CBS’s 60 Minutes told the amazing story of Frank Hall, an assistant football coach at Chardon High School.  When a a shooter entered the high school and started spraying gunfire into a crowd of students, Hall confronted the shooter and chased him out of the building. 

Here is how the story began: 

Two years ago this week three students were killed and three were wounded in a high school shooting you probably don’t remember because there are so many. An assistant football coach named Frank Hall helped stop that shooting. But when we sat down with him recently, Hall told us he wished there was no reason to know his name or, God forbid, think of him as a hero. He’s the type you’d call a “regular guy.”

On February 27th, 2012, Hall was doing what he always did. With hugs and fist bumps, he kept order among a hundred kids gathering in the school cafeteria before class. Then, Hall was confronted by a question no one can truly answer. What would you do at the sound of gunfire? No time to think. There’s only the reflex of character. This is the story of a fraction of a second and the months of consequences that follow. . . .