A hospital is a very lonely place at Christmastime. In my early teens, I spent more than 1,000 days in a hospital, including on Christmas and other holidays. But not as a patient. I was selling ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — A Daniel Island family has a special reason for helping make sure families at MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital feel a little less alone this Christmas. The Bearden ...

When Father Bob came into my 4-year-old daughter’s hospital room on Christmas, I was watching “Home Alone” on mute. “Hello, merry Christmas,” he said in a loud, jovial voice. A man in his 70s with ...

For many, Christmas Eve might sound like carols on the stereo, a fire crackling merrily under a row of stockings; the clink of glasses and cutlery as friends and family gather round the table to share ...

PHOENIX — Inside the busy Phoenix Children’s hospital, there’s a conference room full of toys. It’s the North Pole, according to the hospital’s foundation, which they refer to as Toyland. That room is ...

Christmas and surgeries go together like Santa's milk and cookies, at least for some families. Last holiday season marked the first time that Amanda Hardin and her son, Jackson, didn't spend Christmas ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Santa Claus made his morning rounds at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma on Christmas Day, bringing holiday cheer to pediatric patients and their families in the hospital.