About this user
Medical Missions is a four-star, multiple-award winning charity located at St. Joseph 's Children's Hospital in Paterson, NJ. We operate a distance medicine network in over 100 countries called the Telemedicine Outreach Program (TOP), a global satellite and IP TV network called the Medical Broadcasting Channel (MBC), the Global Video Library of Medicine (GVLM), and Giggles Children's Theater -- Where Laughter is the Best Medicine. Medical Missions produces three television programs targeted to the general public: Plain Talk About Health, Tomorrow's Medicine Today (airs on NJN at 12:00 noon) and Take Care.
To fully appreciate the history and spirit of MMC, you have to go back to the early 1940s.
A one-year-old child was diagnosed with a terminal infectious disease. The child is confined to isolation and the boy's parents are told the child is weeks away from death. During that period they are told that there is an experimental new drug available that had not previously been used on a pediatric patient. Under the circumstances, they agree to have the drug administered to their child.
The child began to show marked improvement and soon it became apparent that he was in fact cured. The disease that the boy had was spinal meningitis, the experimental drug was penicillin and the child was Medical Missions for Children Founder Frank Brady.
A few years into retirement, a growing concern for seriously ill children was difficult for Frank and his wife, Peg to ignore. But, could two individuals, from their home in New Jersey, really effect change for dying children half a world away? Each could bring years of corporate and professional experience to bear on a profoundly disturbing situation. So a kernel of an idea began to take shape — one that combined a passion for helping children with a strong interest in information technology. Medical Missions for Children and its Global Telemedicine & Teaching Network was born.
Frank and Peg Brady have taken on a monumental task, that of — caring for the world's sickest children. And their vision — to bring top — flight medical care directly to the children through the use of today's most efficient telecommunications technology — is working. Single-handedly, the couple has nurtured key financial, technological and medical relationships, and, in sharing their vision with others, has created a global network of caring that positively affects the lives of thousands of ill children each month, and transfers medical knowledge from those who have it to those who need it.
