After four years of marriage, Angela and her husband decided they were ready to start a family. During an appointment with her Ob/Gyn, however, Angela discovered that her pap smear test results were abnormal. Further tests confirmed her fears that …
Michelle was 38 years old when she went for a mammogram after her sister, Barbara, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Michelle soon learned that she had cancer and the two sisters fought their battle together, side by side, through surgery …
When Jerri arrived at her doctor’s office with what she thought was the flu, she never would have imagined that she was suffering from a life threatening tear in her aorta. In just a few short hours, she went from …
For 20-year-old Matthew Kiseliewski it was just another day on the job at Cooper University Hospital. Little did he know a chance encounter with Cooper University Hospital Neurosurgeon, Dr. Allen Turtz, would save his life.
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6ABC/Philadelphia “Action News” recently featured the story of Tori Shendock of Marlton, New Jersey. She was involved in a serious car accident on July 31, 2009, just minutes after leaving her shift as an intern at Cooper.
Tori had no …
Two-year-old Lelah had what her mom thought was the flu. She took her to the pediatrician when she wasn’t getting better and, in an instant, the flu turned into a month stay in the hospital where the little girl fought …
As an award-winning bowler and accomplished trumpet player who performed for a United States President and in several classic war-time movies, Robert McCleish, 68, thought he might have bowled his last strike. In the summer of 2009, a devastating medical …
Paul Williams, 66, of Waterfordworks, New Jersey, developed Sinus node dysfunction (SND). In most patients, treatment of this heart condition requires a medical device, which uses electrical impulses to regulate the beating of his heart.
Mr. Williams, however, is also …
Kevin Walls was a star basketball player at Camden High School. He graduated in 1984, was selected as a McDonald’s All–American and was recruited to play for the University of Louisville Cardinals. He was a fine-tuned athlete who previously had …
A pituitary tumor was pressing on Theresa’s optic nerve and, after two brain surgeries, her last hope for saving her sight was Gamma Knife radiosurgery at Cooper.
In just a few hours, the pin-point laser beams irradiated her tumor and …