Patient Files

Steve Noworyta suffered big league injuries in a crash last year, but is nearly back to full strength. Steve Noworyta has the hulk ...

Seven-year-old Bryan Sadowski spent the first three months of this year in the hospital fighting for his life, then fighting to regain t ...

Imagine you have one all-consuming passion in life. The thing you can’t live without. And suddenly, an illness threatens to take th ...

For those who’ve long claimed Chris Satullo must have a hole in his head, good news.  Medical science has pinpointed its location. ...

Imagine living through lymphoma, breast and thyroid cancer. Then later, heart trouble hits. There are about 13 million cancer surv ...

A blow to the head left NPR producer Theo Balcomb with a minor traumatic brain injury and a deep need to sleep and heal. Her sister took ...

Paul Ballas has struggled with lifelong obesity. But using his Xbox fitness to work out at home, Ballas has dropped close to 60 pounds in ...

We’re in the middle of a measles scare right now, with over 100 documented cases all over the country – most of them tracing ...

In 2009, George Beerley was operating heavy equipment at a construction site near Doylestown, Pa., when his machinery jammed. In 2 ...

Imagine you’re young, and totally healthy. For a few nights, you wake up in cold sweats, feel generally lousy, have some respirator ...

Hayden Dahmm is a senior engineering student at Swarthmore College.  He and his twin brother Ethan, were born more than three months p ...

I wanted to read the lines so desperately, to force the words from the pages into my mind and out of my mouth. But they were ceasing to b ...

It was supposed to be a fairly routine procedure; a scheduled laparoscopic hysterectomy. For Miriam Gilbert of New Jersey, it turn ...

Twenty years ago Leslie Handler went for a routine dental appointment.  It was her first time with a new dentist and she remembers being ...

A Philadelphia woman shares her experience dealing with depression and answering uncomfortable questions, like ‘where have you been ...