SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, California — One evening last April, NFL tight end Konrad Reuland sat on a barstool in his parents’ kitchen and started filling out his driver’s license renewal form. His mom was making dinner, so they chatted while blowing through their tasks. She pulled out plates; he updated his address.
“Anything can happen while you’re performing karaoke at a dive bar in Scotland. As Lauren Marks found out 10 years ago at age 27, that includes having an aneurysm rupture in your brain.”
A Kansas mother thought her days of mothering were long done with her kids all grown and moved out of the house. But, in a random turn of events, a family friend needed help. And now in her 50s, Tammie Willis ended up adopting two boys under the age of eight. So, on the first …
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WAYNE, Pa. – The Bee Foundation, one of the region’s largest brain aneurysm awareness, research, and advocacy organizations, will host U.S. Congressman Patrick Meehan (PA-7) along with survivors and advocates on Friday to urge lawmakers to authorize more federal funding to combat brain aneurysms and provide resources to patients who have suffered aneurysms.
Brianna Atkins of California had a massive aneurysm that was successfully operated on by Alexander Coon, a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Her parents, Angel and Santos, brought her to Hopkins for specialized surgery when doctors in California couldn’t treat her.
Ellie Helton of Apex was 14 when an aneurysm on her brain stem ruptured, causing her to have a fatal stroke. She is the namesake of new legislation that would fund research into aneurysms.
Two years ago, Stacie Jones, who many remember from the second season of “The Apprentice,” had just put her kids to bed and was saying goodnight to a friend who was staying over when she passed out cold. She was rushed to the hospital where they determined that she had suffered a seizure due to …
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The Bee Foundation is a Philadelphia based nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness of brain aneurysms and supporting innovative research that saves lives. The Bee Foundation has announced its third call for medical research grant applications. The Bee Foundation will award $50,000 to proposals directed at novel and innovative approaches to the early detection and …
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A cylindrical pipeline used for treating large brain aneurysms is just as effective on smaller and sometimes harder to reach ones, according to the results of a clinical trial announced last week. The study’s findings were presented at the International Stroke Conference in Houston by Ricardo A. Hanel, neurovascular surgeon with Baptist Health, who is …
