They didn’t understand why their kids kept getting sick. After a rare diagnosis, a new gene therapy offered hope.

Ava Langenhop was always sick.  From “the time she was born,” she was “just a sick baby,” the 9-year-old’s mother, Alicia Langenhop, told CBS News. She’d catch any cough or cold. Before she was two months old, she went to the hospital twice for viral infections. Ear infections were constant. Scraped knees turned into skin … Read more

Trump reveals ‘terminal’ diagnosis for sitting congressman, intervention from White House doctors

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump said Monday that White House doctors helped treat Rep. Neal Dunn after the Florida Republican was given what he described as a “terminal” diagnosis. Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., recounted the episode during remarks at the White House, saying Dunn was continuing … Read more

Pushing the Limits: Army veteran finds new purpose after cancer diagnosis

During a routine physical before his deployment to Afghanistan, doctors found a tumor in Michael Collins’ leg. With advice from doctors, the then 26-year-old had his leg amputated to stop the cancer from spreading and save his life. In the “CBS Mornings” series “Pushing the Limits,” Omar Villafranca shows how the Army veteran found new … Read more

“Kind of morbid”: Health premiums threaten their nest egg. A terminal diagnosis may spare it.

COLUSA, Calif. — Early on, Jean Franklin got some career advice she followed religiously: “Pay yourself first.” So she did, socking away hundreds of thousands of dollars in retirement savings by the time she became a stay-at-home mom at age 41. She and her husband, Charles, a former high school teacher who goes by Chaz, … Read more