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Patient Profile: Ovarian Cancer She is a soft spoken and determined woman, characteristics that served her well throughout her life and in her career in finance. It is this same determination that Donelia (Dody) Chatis believes is her strongest ally against a more formidable foe. Read More

Patient Profile: High-Risk Obstetrics It was truly a special delivery when Elyse Sacco's high-risk pregnancy resulted in fraternal twins-Luke and Lily- born at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital in March 2005. Read More

Patient Profile: Cardiac procedures continue to save lives Soon after Tony DiChiara returned home from his shift as a respiratory therapist at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital last fall, he began having chills and crushing chest pains. As his wife called 911, he realized he was having a heart attack at only 48 years old. Read More

Patient Profile: Orthopedic Surgery Nancy Hardiman likes to walk. She likes to walk along the ocean-side trails around Kennebunkport, Maine. She loves hiking through the woods near her camp in New Hampshire's White Mountains, watching for birds, moose and deer. Read More

Patient Profile: Vascular Surgery Minimally invasive procedure for abdominal aortic aneurysm "I've had toothaches worse than that," said 77-year-old Donald Campbell, describing the endovascular surgery he underwent to repair a life-threatening abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Read More

Patient Profile: Interventional radiology Walking without pain Balloon angioplasty provides fast relief from peripheral vascular disease Bertha Henshaw could not walk 20 steps without sitting down to rest. The pain that had gradually developed in her left leg over the years became too much. For years, she had loved walking along Revere Beach near her home - sometimes three miles - but the pain forced her to rest on the sea wall and contemplate the distant ocean. Read More

Patient Profile: Cancer Care/Breast Cancer Laughing through chemo- a breast-cancer survivor's tale of hope Patty Lowndes never misses a doctor's appointment. And that habit of a lifetime saved the life of the 58-year-old mother of three from Winthrop, Mass. In March 2001, at her annual check-up, her primary care physician, Gary Pransky, MD, detected a mass in one breast, which had not shown up in a mammogram taken a week earlier. Read More

Hormone "cocktail" keeps prostate cancer patient on the road Seventy-three-year-old Hugh Faulkner of Medford has been living with prostate cancer for the past 14 years. Despite setbacks, a tailored hormone therapy received at Lawrence Memorial Hospital's hematology/oncology department has given Faulkner a new lease on life and the chance to live well for years to come. Read More

Insulin pump gives freedom to people with diabetes To many, Michelle Devlin of Lynn is a typical expectant mother. She is receiving prenatal care, eating right and taking all the right steps to keep herself healthy so that she will have a healthy baby. However, part of her health regime is slightly atypical, because Michelle has diabetes and for the past two years she has been injecting insulin into her abdomen. But now that Michelle is pregnant, injecting insulin has become a problem. Read More

Detecting a silent disease in women "I never thought I would have a heart attack," said Jane Parsons. Suddenly feeling clammy while shopping with a friend, Jane, who was a borderline diabetic, thought a glass of orange juice would take care of her symptoms. Still not feeling well, she went shopping the next morning. Leading an active and busy lifestyle, Jane didn't have time to worry.Read More

Making congestive heart failure easier to diagnose and live with Sean Murphy is not your typical heart patient. At 35, the North Reading-based construction company owner is younger and more physically active than the majority of the estimated 5 million Americans who live with congestive heart failure.Read More

Home-improvement enthusiast gets her mobility back In late summer 2003, Joyce Clarke was finishing a home-improvement marathon when she felt pain in her right shoulder. Through the fall, the pain worsened, and after a couple of outings with the snow blower in December, the only sensation in Clarke's right arm was a continual throbbing ache that left her unable to sleep.Read More

Spinal microsurgery gets patients back into action quickly Not too long ago, outpatient surgical repair of herniated discs and other degenerative disc diseases through a one-inch incision was unimaginable to all but a few. Read More

Patient Profile: Bariatric/Gastric Bypass Weight management program leads to long-term success Throughout the 1990s, Mary Beth Bencic of Everett, a 43-year-old middle-school teacher for emotionally disturbed boys, weighed as much as 350 pounds. "In addition to asthma and sleep apnea, I also developed blood clots and cellulitis," she recalled. "After a heart attack that led to two surgeries in 1999, I knew I had to resolve my weight problem." Read More

Patient Profile: Cardiac Care Lifesaving heart care gets patient back into action Angioplasty is the most effective procedure to save lives and reduce damage to the heart muscle when patients are suffering a heart attack. Performing emergency angioplasty within two hours of the onset of a heart attack has proven to minimize heart damage in 95 percent of all cases. Melrose-Wakefield Hospital (MWH) is now Read More

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