Patient Files

Chronic fatigue associated with long COVID forces many people to rest and disengage from activities they used to do — but limiting your life can feel powerless.

For more than a decade, a unique gross anatomy course at Indiana University required students to get to know the family of the donated cadaver they worked on.

When Jake Odmark was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, his career took a back seat. But accepting the diagnosis led to a more stable future.

A museum exhibit helped Vashti DuBois finally sleep after nearly 3 years of unrest. Standing in her living room — a serene, dark ...

After working overnight, an ER doctor does her best to sleep during the sunniest hours. While Dorian Jacobs’ husband and tod ...

Amy Marzolino watches her toddler, August, like a hawk, and with good reason. “I’m the mom who’s running across ...

Michael Bohannan-Calloway was diagnosed with cancer in January 2010. Doctors told him it was treatable but incurable. Looking for guidanc ...

Just as he was stepping on stage to perform for tens of thousands of people at the Made in America Festival, Philadelphia rapper Freeway ...

When I ask him what the last meal he ate was, he hesitates, trying to remember: “I love chicken, maybe it was chicken? I don’ ...

In 2008, composer Daniel Fishkin’s ears started ringing, and they never stopped. Doctors offered no solace besides, “You get ...

Mohammed Nayeemudin was working in the ICU when he got a call from the emergency room — a 30 year old who had been found in his apartme ...

A mom, a daughter, a disease, and time. Liz Buvinger admits she can be a bit of a “planner”—even a Type A personalit ...

Drug trial gives people a “peek” at their brain functioning. The Drexel Neurosciences Institute in Philadelphia and ab ...

Musician Anomie Fatale chose her name deliberately. At age 20 she lost control of most of her body. She’s turning that pain and fru ...

Did a religious epiphany save Terry Sukeena’s life? When he was 46 years old, Terry Sukeena had the first major health scare ...