Vascular specialists, who work with patients experiencing conditions and disorders of the blood vessels, often talk of the “Lazarus effect,” a phenomenon in which a patient revives after coming to the brink of death, as happens in stroke or heart...
Martin Silberman, 66, of Brooklyn, New York, leads a pretty exciting life. By day he’s an attorney fighting for tenants’ rights, and by night he’s a drummer in a band with one of his college friends. Just a few months ago he never would have...
Hannah Bonham was tired of being sick. For more than six months the young woman had been treated, retreated, and retreated again for an arteriovenous malformation (AVM), to no avail. In fact she’d gotten worse, as one procedure had resulted in a...
Angela Soto ignored the calls at first – they were from an unknown number and she assumed it was just another telemarketer interrupting her Saturday. But after the phone had rung several times, her 11-year-old daughter got tired of hearing it. “Mom...
Like many happy, healthy little girls her age, 10-year-old Abigail (Abbie) Julian from Croton-on-Hudson, New York, enjoyed hanging out with her friends and playing soccer. That was in 2012. Today she is a happy, healthy young adult — with two brain...
Rebecca Menachem was not making things up. By age 12 she had made so many trips to the school nurse complaining of headaches that, as she recalls now, “everyone thought I was faking sicknesses to go home.” But her migraines were real, and eventually...
At 38, Preston Bottomy had a successful career as Walmart’s VP for e-commerce and maintained an active Manhattan social life. He was healthy and fit, with a daily workout regimen, so he was surprised one night as he sat down to dinner with friends...
Cali Halperin was just 16 years old during the summer of 2016, when she got a headache that wouldn’t go away. A normally healthy and active high school student from New York City, she didn’t know what to do about it except take ibuprofen and hope it...
The first time Joan Lazarou, 60, felt an odd tingling sensation in her feet she figured it was due to the cold January weather and just put on an extra pair of socks. But over the next few weeks the tingling got worse, and soon it was accompanied by...
Elle Aviv admits that she used to take her health for granted. A year ago the 36-year-old New Yorker, the former host of a jewelry shopping channel, was a successful entrepreneur and graduate student who enjoyed an energetic and active life. She...
