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Breaking the Cycle of Eating Disorders - Cassie's Story

I thought my meal plan had too much food initially. I didn’t want to hear that behaviors I felt were OK weren’t normal. But my team continued to support and teach me, even in my worst moments.
A Medical, Therapeutic and Nutritional Approach Helps Patients With Eating Disorders Thrive Again. “Food is my medicine.” It’s a ...
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The Power of Precision

An advanced type of radiation therapy helped one young woman beat a life-threatening brain cancer.
After finishing work one day in October 2017, Tamara Francis, a 32-year-old graduate student who was earning her master’s degree ...
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A Traumatic Fall

A Montclair teen anticipates getting back in the saddle after several surgeries to repair a serious liver injury.
Hadley Skule had been struggling with Lyme disease that left her feeling exhausted and unable to be active most days. In October ...
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Beating the Odds

A young woman with two serious medical conditions risked her life to have the family she always dreamed of.
For most expectant mothers, giving birth is a joyous occasion. But as Danicca Bolante lay on the operating room table during her ...
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A Third Chance at Life

How a stem cell transplant and cutting-edge medical care helped one woman survive three different cancers.
Annette’s long and arduous fight for her life began in 2006, when she was diagnosed with Stage IV non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer ...
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Pediatric Neurosurgery: Help when you need it most

A 10-year-old-girl collides with a bike, leading to emergency brain surgery—and her family’s renewed appreciation of life’s most important pleasures.
Families in one Belle Mead, New Jersey, neighborhood look forward to their end-of-the-summer block party. Streets are closed to ...
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Quality of Life Restored

“I was partially awake during the surgery,” Anne recalls, “but I remembered nothing upon awakening. All I knew was that I felt as if Dr. Danish had given me my life back. I had been so debilitated by Parkinson’s, but now I can walk, write and talk again.”
A transformative procedure brings symptomatic relief for Parkinson’s patients. When we talk about stimulating the brain, most of ...
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An Inventive Approach To Unblocking Arteries — Sandra's Story

“The way I was treated, I would do it again,” she declares. “For me, that’s just how simple a procedure this was. The care I received, not just from Dr. Chakhtoura but from the nurses and technicians, was incredible.”
An Inventive Approach to Unblocking Arteries has Given Sandra G a New Lease on Life For Sandra Gaudiosi, her third experience ...
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He Gave Me My Life Back

Cathy is feeling "great" and continuing to improve.
When Cathy Delanoy faced a debilitating cervical spine diagnosis, she turned to Dr. Jonathan Lustgarten, Chief of Neurosurgery ...
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