After eight years on transplant lists, a San Antonio woman donated her kidney to her mother to save her life, and now they’re sharing their story to bring awareness to kidney disease.

January is Thyroid Awareness Month. Your thyroid is a small gland in your neck that plays a big role in helping your body work right. It produces a hormone that influences every cell, tissue, and organ.

One woman is taking her trauma and turning it into triumph by helping victims find their voice and bring awareness to a problem that is often silenced. “A stranger drove up and had the passenger door open and asked if I liked candy,” Lori Poland, a kidnap survivor told Ivanhoe. She wants to bring awareness that child abuse is not just a social issue, but a mental and public health issue as well. “They range from physical health outcomes, such as cancer, heart disease, things of that nature, but also mental health outcomes too. At just three-years old Lori was able to identify her captor.

GenCure raising awareness about need for cord blood donationsPublished: November 15, 2019, 5:58 pmGenCure is raising awareness about the need for donors of cord blood stem cells, which are used to treat dozens of illnesses.