WHITBY — It’s been only a year since Katie Sutherland lay in a hospital bed clinging to life, but the Whitby teen is getting ready to compete in an international sports competition. Katie, 16, underwent a double lung transplant last year and since then has been building her strength back...
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Josh Bigham was saved, not by fire and brimstone, but by flamebroiled cheeseburgers and Coldstone Creamery. He’s found heaven in the sugary goodness of rocky road ice cream, the hickory-smoked flavor of a perfectly grilled steak and the well-balanced blend of a sweet and spicy barbecue sauce. For 15 years,...
Dallas — Inside Kelly Eakin’s garage in suburban Maryland, two of the world’s smallest wheelchairs gather dust. Just a few years ago, these wheelchairs were in high demand. There was a constant waiting list of eight or nine young children with spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA, a devastating disease that...
Mumbai – A 38-year-old woman who fell off a train last week thought she was lucky to have survived the accident despite suffering severe head and neck injuries. Shalini had reasons to think so as her CT scan came out normal. However, little did she know that her injury would...
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – on May 31 people strapped on their skates to raise money for a good cause. Chelsea Paradise was diagnosed with Huntington’s Disease 2 years ago. It’s a rare disease that destroys nerve cells in the brain, which can slow down someone’s thinking skills, and make it...
Jessica Kath has no pulse. But the 21-year old is full of heart, as her doctors have witnessed. “It’s been incredible watching her be a survivor,” says UT Southwestern cardiologist Mark Drazner. “Her story is amazing.” At birth, Jessica was diagnosed with a rare disease called Diamond-Blackfan Anemia. She doesn’t...
After Kara Miller woke up with blurry vision she couldn’t blink away, her primary care doctor spotted something that would change her life. Kara, then 17, had a lesion on one of her optic nerves. Not only did the damaged nerve explain why she was seeing double, it was telltale...