Eve Armstrong is an assistant professor of physics at the New York Institute of Technology and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City – in other words, she’s an accomplished...
What would you do if you called for help but no one heard you? That’s exactly the predicament in which Jonas Falik found himself one cold February day. A former college professor and the soon-to-retire chair of the business department at...
The pain is often unpredictable and severe. The diagnosis can be elusive. Some call it the “suicide disease” and Kristin L. Fletcher knows why: “You can’t live with the pain trigeminal neuralgia brings.”But the 66-year-old retired attorney from...
At 38, Preston Bottomy had a successful career as Walmart’s VP for e-commerce and maintained an active Manhattan social life. He was healthy and fit, with a daily workout regimen, so he was surprised one night as he sat down to dinner with friends...
It seemed so trivial that Peter Benson barely remembered to ask his doctor about it at his check-up. For the past six months he’d had a “clogged” feeling in his right ear, as if he were water-logged after swimming. Peter thought it was the remnant...
Rachel says she had no sensation at all of anyone working on her brain when she woke up from the anesthesia while on the OR table.
A woman with a debilitating meningioma finds relief – and understanding – at Weill Cornell Medicine
Nancy Jarecki became one of the luckiest people ever to suffer a ruptured brain aneurysm when the ambulance took her to NewYork-Presbyterian... and Dr. Stieg. She was featured in one of the "Amazing Things Are Happening Here" TV ads. Watch the video:
