Beau Bridges
Dr. Steve Drucker
Search results
Medical Story is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from September 4, 1975, until January 8, 1976.
- Hope in the form of a spinal implant. When Matthew Houder was born in 2006, his parents, Charles and Meghan, held their breath. “We already knew that he had many significant medical complications,” Charles says.
- A life-changing fistula surgery. When Jenipher Musonda gave birth to her fifth baby, everything about the experience was different. She was experiencing prolonged labor, and the baby failed to descend.
- A second chance at life after surviving a blood clot. Erin Frost was at a holiday party when she noticed that her left leg was swollen and bruised. She was heavily, and joyously, pregnant with her first baby, who was conceived after nine years of trying and four rounds of in vitro fertilization.
- Living and thriving with HIV. To be an HIV-positive professional woman in Zambia in the early 1980s was taboo. That was the case with Ntimbwe Mpamba’s mother, a nutritionist who was HIV-positive when she was pregnant with him.
- Theresa Tamkins
- Buzzfeed News Reporter
- Batkid was declared cancer-free. Miles Scott stole everyone's heart as a 5-year-old leukemia patient who took over San Francisco in 2013 as Batkid after he told the Make-A-Wish Foundation that he wanted to be Batman.
- This nurse realized that the last time she met her new coworker doctor was when she cared for him years ago as a preemie. Brandon Seminatore is a pediatric resident in California and ended up working at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, the same hospital where he was born decades earlier.
- This little girl with big, beautiful eyes. Mehlani lives in Minnesota, and her mom, Karina Martinez, is often stopped by strangers who comment on the toddler's big, beautiful eyes.
- This woman walked with the help of an epidural stimulator implanted in her spine. This year was an exciting one when it came to research into treatments for spinal cord injuries that have caused complete paralysis from the chest or waist down.
- The first 23-week preemie to survive in more than a decade. A few years ago, we wrote about the miraculous survival of a baby born at 26 weeks. Now we have Samuel Rodriguez, born in April 2017 at just 23 weeks and 3 days, the result of a spontaneous placental abruption (separation of the placenta from the uterus).
- The boy who survived leukemia three times in ten years. Zach Swart was first diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in 2007 at age 6. Although ALL is generally highly treatable, Zach’s version played hardball.
- Two parents’ lifesaving touch. On March 25, 2010, Kate and David Ogg heard the words every parent dreads: Their newborn wasn’t going to make it. Their twins—a girl and a boy—were born two minutes apart and 14 weeks premature, weighing just over two pounds each.
- The church that cured one man’s cancer. It’s hard to say which was in worse shape: the run-down, century-old church or the cancer-ridden 56-year-old man perched on its crumbling steps.
Oct 3, 2022 · Health & Fitness. Lifespan: Stories of Illness, Accident, and Recovery. From WOUB Public Media. On Lifespan, you'll hear stories about encounters with the health care system. Each show contains...
Welcome to MEDICAL STORIES, a new national television series designed to explore the latest in medicine today through the eyes of patients who are confronting and overcoming their medical...
Dec 31, 2021 · In 2021, scientists made great strides in the world of organ transplants, cancer treatment trials and gut microbiome research, and doctors shared some amazing treatment success stories. Here are...
