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From Wreckage to Flight: A Full-Circle Recovery

April 30, 2012 Leave a Comment

On a beautiful summer day in August of 2011, Jason Flood, a 21-year-old banner pilot from Franklinville, was about to pick up an advertising banner to fly along the New Jersey shoreline when something went drastically wrong. He missed the …

Posted in: Videos Tagged: neurological institute, orthopaedics, trauma

Preventing Blindness with Gamma Knife Radiosurgery

January 11, 2011 Leave a Comment

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 …

Posted in: Videos Tagged: gamma knife, neurological institute, pituitary tumor

Karen’s Story: A Life-Threatening Discovery Leads to Gamma Knife Treatment

September 7, 2010 Leave a Comment

Karen sat in her car with tears streaming down her cheeks, afraid to tell her children that she had cancer. She didn’t know that they would not only be supporting her through breast cancer treatments, but that they would stand …

Posted in: Videos Tagged: brain tumor, breast cancer, gamma knife, neurological institute

Charlotte’s Story: A Pregnancy in Peril

August 17, 2010 Leave a Comment

Giving birth is supposed to be the most joyous occasion in someone’s life. But, what if, at the same time you deliver your baby, you have a hole drilled in your head to relieve the pressure of a golf ball …

Posted in: Videos Tagged: brain tumor, maternal - fetal medicine, neurological institute, obstetrics and gynecology, pregnancy

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