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REPS. CLARKE, FITZPATRICK, SCANLON, AND STIVERS INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN BILL TO ADDRESS BRAIN ANEURYSM RESEARCH

REPS. CLARKE, FITZPATRICK, SCANLON, AND STIVERS INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN BILL TO ADDRESS BRAIN ANEURYSM RESEARCH Washington, D.C. – Representatives Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), and Steve Stivers (R-OH) introduced H.R. 1553, Ellie’s Law, which provides additional funding for research to address the public health crisis of brain aneurysms. This legislation […]

Marci Husman

September 9, 2018 My husband John and I got married in Seattle. Family and friends had come for the wedding weekend. It was beautiful. Everyone left by Tuesday and I returned to my new job as an LPN at the Puget Sound VA. I had been a Paramedic for 10 years and was completing my […]

A Microscopic Look At Aneurysm Repair

Pitt and Mayo Clinic discover new, immediate phase of blood vessel restructuring after aneurysm UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Hitting a pothole on the road in just the wrong way might create a bulge on the tire, a weakened spot that will almost certainly lead to an eventual flat tire. But what if that tire could immediately […]

Reflection on my one-year “aneu-versary” by Audrey Wick

I remember asking an ICU nurse, “How do you spell the word aneurysm?” I was a college professor of English who had landed in the neurological ICU of St. David’s Hospital in Austin, and I could not visualize the word itself. I had no memory of ever using the word until my own medical diagnosis […]

Leanna Allen

Hello my name is Leanna Allen I am currently 42 years old and on August 6, 2019 I suffered from a brain aneurysm rupture. At the time I was 39 about to turn 40. It was about 8 o’clock in the evening I was at home with my at the time 20-year-old son and his […]

Tricia Scobey

My name is Tricia and I am a 53-year-old brain aneurysm survivor. On November 8, 2020, my life was changed forever. I was watching football with my daughter when I passed out and started foaming at the mouth. 911 was called and I came to with the worst headache of my life. The paramedics were sure it […]

Karlie Trefethen

My name is Karlie Trefethen and I am so happy I stumbled upon @thebeefoundation on Instagram! I think it is so important to share our stories. I am twenty-eight and from Portland, ME. I have had two brain surgeries in the last ten years to repair aneurysms. The first one was when I was seventeen […]

Woman, 29, ‘lucky to be alive’ after doctors mistake ruptured brain aneurysm for migraine

About 6 million Americans are living with unruptured brain aneurysms. When they burst, it’s a life-threatening situation. Jan. 14, 2021, 2:24 PM EST / Source: TODAY By A. Pawlowski Rebecca Reich still remembers the piercing headache that struck out of nowhere and made her feel like she was going to die. An aneurysm had just […]

Printing a Brain Aneurysm in a Dish

Scientists make and treat a 3-D-printed model of a ballooning blood vessel Brain aneurysms, which affect as many as one in 50 people, occur when a blood vessel wall weakens and bulges, setting the scene for a potentially deadly rupture. Now scientists have created a 3-D-printed aneurysm model in the laboratory and “operated” on it: […]

What is a brain aneurysm? Signs, symptoms and treatment to know

As rapper and hip-hop mogul Dr. Dre recovers from a brain aneurysm, there have been more than two million searches on him and the topic of aneurysms. Dr. Dre, born Andre Young, suffered the aneurysm on Monday. The Los Angeles Times reported that the 55-year-old was in an intensive care unit at one point and […]

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