Briana Hernandez can go about her studies at Rutgers University without fearing a brain hemorrhage, thanks to Gamma Knife surgery.
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HOPE CUTTING-EDGE RADIATION TREATMENT HELPS A YOUNG WOMAN OVERCOME A BRAIN CONDITION.
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he teenage years are a time of excitement but also of stress, both academic and social. Briana Hernandez of North Bergen in Hudson County faced another challenge as well: fierce migraines that began when she was 15. “I started seeing blurry vision, light would bother me, and I would always be in bed,” the now 20-year-old JOSEPH WEINER, MD recalls. Soon, the
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