"when you have depression you feel like you're the only person out there," says bruce ross, who lives with depression that hasn't responded to medication or therapies.
although epilepsy is highly treatable with medication, 30 per cent of people with the disease, like 37-year-old erin mcdonald, rely on brain surgery to keep it in check.
"i was given a liquid that was basically a cup of water. it tasted like nothing. [the healthcare workers who were wearing] hazmat suits told me to exit the hospital as quickly as possible," says jenika hamilton.
“we don't have any treatment and we sure don't have any cure for it,” doctors told tom wood after he was diagnosed with sporadic inclusion body myositis.
a chance meeting with a man in a wheelchair led brooke robinson to a clinical trial that was using stem cells to treat multiple sclerosis: 'he saved my life.'
maureen went from feeling completely healthy to hearing a doctor tell her that she had gastrointestinal stromal tumours, a rare cancer that affects 1 in 100,000 people.
when anne marie carr was diagnosed in 2015, she was told most patients only survive three years. six years later, she's the founder and executive director of hereditary amyloidosis canada.
"when you have depression you feel like you're the only person out there," says bruce ross, who lives with depression that hasn't responded to medication or therapies.
although epilepsy is highly treatable with medication, 30 per cent of people with the disease, like 37-year-old erin mcdonald, rely on brain surgery to keep it in check.
"i was given a liquid that was basically a cup of water. it tasted like nothing. [the healthcare workers who were wearing] hazmat suits told me to exit the hospital as quickly as possible," says jenika hamilton.
“we don't have any treatment and we sure don't have any cure for it,” doctors told tom wood after he was diagnosed with sporadic inclusion body myositis.
a chance meeting with a man in a wheelchair led brooke robinson to a clinical trial that was using stem cells to treat multiple sclerosis: 'he saved my life.'
maureen went from feeling completely healthy to hearing a doctor tell her that she had gastrointestinal stromal tumours, a rare cancer that affects 1 in 100,000 people.
when anne marie carr was diagnosed in 2015, she was told most patients only survive three years. six years later, she's the founder and executive director of hereditary amyloidosis canada.