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Brain aneurysms can be very deadly. The ballooning vessel can rupture, leaking blood into your brain. If that happens there's a 60% chance you won't make it. Doctors agree that it's vitally important to fix aneurysms at risk of bleeding. Let's go to Mayo Clinic to learn about a new technique for repairing aneurysms. It's less invasive than traditional surgery and some patients can go home the same day.
Resource: Cerebral Aneurysm
Suffering patients know the importance of human touch. The power of personal contact to the sick or post-surgical patient can be profound. Whether it's a massage or knitting a shawl, health care volunteers like the ones you're about to meet know there is healing in caring hands.
Resource: Massage Therapy
Breast cancer does not discriminate. Any woman of any race can get it. But what many might not know is that minorities such as African Americans, Latinos and Asians tend to develop breast cancer earlier and often have more aggressive tumors than white women. And too often minorities aren't diagnosed until after the disease has spread. More on breast cancer and minorities from Mayo Clinic.
Resource: Breast Cancer
This is a story about beating the odds. The woman you're about to meet was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and told she had months to live. But before she had major surgery and chemotherapy to try to keep the devastating disease at bay, she got a second opinion. A new diagnosis with the promise of life.
Resource: Autoimmune Pancreatitis
A living nightmare. That's how the woman you're about to meet describes her experience with a rare disease called myasthenia gravis. The condition caused her to become so weak she couldn't walk, talk or swallow. After seeing several doctors, she ended up at Mayo Clinic where medication and a minimally invasive approach to surgery helped her regain her strength and her life.
Resource: Myasthenia Gravis
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