by Karin Fleming | May 8, 2023
Happenstance can take many shapes. But for 46-year-old Sutter patient Vashti Ross, who was found to have a rare genetic mutation that caused Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (or “ALS”, sometimes called Lou Gehrig’s disease), the diagnosis provided her the unique...
by Karin Fleming | Apr 11, 2023
Ben Moseley, a healthy 13-year-old, is known for speed and agility on the basketball court. But in August 2022 an alarming spread of bacterial infection in his body stopped him in his tracks and jeopardized his life. “It was truly frightening to see how quickly Ben’s...
by Karin Fleming | Jan 17, 2023
When Vladimir Diaz-Ochoa, Ph.D., a scientist specializing in microbiology and immunology was diagnosed last year with a progressive neurodegenerative disease, the importance of medical research became even more personal. Muscle spasms and weakness in his fingers...
by Karin Fleming | Dec 20, 2022
When Bob Warren, 87, of Davis, Calif., was experiencing a sudden loss of speech, his wife feared he was having a stroke and called their family doctor. He was taken to the emergency department at Sutter Davis Hospital, where tests revealed a surprising diagnosis:...
by Karin Fleming | Nov 28, 2022
Jazlyn Lara, a joyful 5-year-old in Sacramento, wants to be a pediatrician when she grows up. She expressed this dream to her parents even before being diagnosed in June 2020 with B-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia — a type of blood cancer also called B-ALL that starts...
