Autism groups focus on needs of grandparents

Published on December 18, 2008

" . . . As grandparents, we go through a range of feelings. Some of these are triggered by the child's behavior and how the parents react to it. Grandparents are frightened and upset that their grandchild is experiencing these problems . . . "

Groups offer hope and support for advanced breast cancer patients

By Francesca Lunzer Kritz
Published on October 4, 2007

Ever since Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards, announced that her breast cancer had recurred and was treatable, but not curable, breast cancer organizations have been fielding questions from women -- both from cancer patients and from women worried that if breast cancer does strike, it might also hit them in its most severe form.

Running Out of Time

By Sharon Samber
Published on September 28, 2000

A group of Jewish women of all ages and backgrounds meets regularly in Brooklyn to discuss the domestic abuse they have suffered.

The Force Behind ‘The Group Room’

By Wendy J. Madnick
Published on October 28, 1999

Some people take lemons and make lemonade. Selma Schimmel took a diagnosis of cancer and turned it into a vast support network which has changed the lives of thousands of people.