All posts tagged "cancer"
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Supporting Food & Friends is Easy as Pie
"Slice of Life" is a sweet and tasty way to help Food & Friends provide meals to those with life-challenging illnesses.
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Chef Rasheed Abdurrahman Serves More Than 1.9 Million Meals a Year
Food & Friends Executive Chef Abdurrahman runs one of the DMV area's most demanding -- and life-nourishing -- kitchens.
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Lesbian Cancer Survivor Says She Gets Harassed Using Public Bathrooms
A female cancer survivor who underwent chemotherapy and a double mastectomy says she routinely gets misgendered as a man and has been harassed in public...
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Lesbian Tennis Star Martina Navratilova Diagnosed with 2 Forms of Cancer
Martina Navratilova, an out lesbian and one of the top female tennis players of all time, has been diagnosed with throat and breast cancer. Navratilova,...
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Food & Friends to Honor Frontline Workers at Gala
Food & Friends will honor eight local frontline workers at its “Honoring Our Heroes” gala, which will be held on June 13 at the Marriott...
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Food and Friends is seeking volunteers to help deliver meals for Thanksgiving
Food & Friends, the D.C.-based nonprofit that provides home-delivered, specialized meals and nutrition counseling to people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes, and other life-challenging illnesses,...
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Kathy Griffin undergoes surgery for lung cancer, says doctors are “very optimistic”
Kathy Griffin also revealed she suffered from painkiller addiction and struggled with suicidal thoughts after the fallout from her Trump photoshoot
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Food and Friends annual “Slice of Life” pie sale is now on!
Nonprofit providing meals to needy D.C.-area residents hopes to sell 9,000 pies by Nov. 19
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Emërson Anicëto is Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather 2019
Anicëto wants to use his title and platform for the greater good
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LGBTQ advocate Donna Red Wing passes away after battle with cancer
Donna Red Wing, a civil rights activists and LGBTQ advocated, passed away on Monday afternoon at her home in Des Moines, Iowa, following an eight-month...
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Women who planned to marry in 24 countries sadly announce one is dying
Fleur Pierets revealed that her wife, Julian Boom, has just three months to live
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Food & Friends receives $2 million gift from the Bresler family
Food & Friends, the nonprofit organization that provides prepared meals and nutrition counseling to individuals suffering from life-threatening illnesses, has accepted a multi-year $2 million...
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More than 40 culinary experts to take part in Chef’s Best Dinner in June
“Chef’s Best is an event which has evolved over decades,” says Craig Shniderman, the executive director of Food & Friends, which organizes the annual fundraising...
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Food & Friends to hold annual Dining Out for Life fundraiser on April 6
Food & Friends, the local organization that provides meal support programs and nutrition counseling to people suffering from life-challenging illnesses, has announced its annual Dining...
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Turing CEO promises to reverse Daraprim price increase
The pharmaceutical executive who attracted national attention after increasing the price of a drug that is used to treat a parasitic infection that can affect...
