Leer en Ingles/Read in EnglishJennifer Dipiton Alcántara tenía sólo 10 años cuando empezó a sentirse extraña. Su lado izquierdo se sentía vagamente entumecido, con muy poca fuerza y una sensación de “nerviosismo.” Fue poco a poco, hasta que un día...
Henry Dunlop, of Flourtown, Pennsylvania, does not believe in slowing down. At 73, Henry — known to all as Hank — is the president of an international agriculture company and keeps extremely active in his spare time. If he’s not working, you’ll...
You might know the name Dr. Orna Guralnik from having read one of her features in The New York Times or The Washington Post, or you may have seen her profiled in The New Yorker. It’s even more likely that know of her as the host of the award-winning...
You may have seen Ramit Malhotra on TV or on social media lately. The healthy 28-year-old suffered an acute ischemic stroke three months before his planned wedding, but he was fortunate enough to be brought quickly to NewYork-Presbyterian Queens....
David “Smoky” Wurtzel, 91, of Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, earned his nickname from a prep school teacher as a nod to the lit cigarette the young man always had in his hand. Smoky quit the habit 52 years ago, but he never did give up the nickname —...
Famed author and activist Letty Cottin Pogrebin thought her life was over — but a name from her past turned out to be the one who could calm her fears about the future
Pat Pesce is one tough guy. The former NYPD detective worked private security at Rockefeller Center after he retired from the force in 1998, then was enlisted by the center’s owners, Tishman Speyer, to be a driver for their executives and VIPs....
The natural drive of an athlete is to work hard, to persevere, to win. That’s the mindset of equestrian Laura Bowery, 54, of Southampton, New York. The mother of two is the owner of Sea-Aire Inc., a top Long Island stable for training both horses...
It was the best 18th birthday present Sabrina Garguilo could have asked for. The New Jersey teen celebrated her big day by walking out the doors of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, finally free from debilitating headaches. The pain...
Cognitive remediation helps a stroke survivor find her new normalNothing was normal in 2020, but by the summer of that first pandemic year 47-year-old Tania Saiz and her fiancé felt good about traveling from their home in White Plains, New York, to...
