“She was sitting in my office and she showed me this video of herself doing karate,” says Dr. Michael Kaiser from the Spine Center. “I was impressed by how much she had already recovered. It had only been six months since her operation.” He’s talking about 60 year old Lisa Schwartz, a...

As captain of her high school cheerleading squad, Brittany Irwin was the picture of health. Hidden in her brain, though, was a condition that was about to take over her life. “I had headaches since I was in 7th grade—small ones at the back of my head,” says Brittany, “But I thought that...

One evening, eight years ago, Dan Ricci came home to find ice cream melting on the counter and his wife passed out on the floor of their bathroom. His wife Nicole says, that afternoon, "out of the clear blue sky, I got the worst headache of my life." What she didn't know then, was that she was very close to losing her life...

A couple of weeks ago, we wrote the story of Donna Ainsworth (Get This Thing Out of my Head!). Donna narrowly escaped a fatal aneurysm with the help of Dr. Sean Lavine from the Endovascular Center. Donna was so moved by our posting that she wrote this lovely letter to Dr. Lavine...

Last year Tom and Terri Hughes sat in a tidy hospital waiting room while their 13 year old son Troy underwent brain surgery.  Hours later, when Troy's surgeon, Dr. Neil A. Feldstein from the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center emerged from the operating room and asked Tom and Terri into a small...