A son. A wife. A friend of a friend. A stranger. They live in different parts of the country and come from different backgrounds, but they share one thing: they have each given a kidney to someone who needed it. The kidneys are…
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The day Patsy Schuchardt noticed that every car in the parking lot had a flat tire, she knew something was wrong. Not with the tires – they were actually fine – but with her sight. A few months earlier, Patsy had noticed her…
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When Jessica Beltran’s mom noticed her infant daughter wasn’t growing eyebrows and eyelashes, she brought her to see a doctor. At just six months old, Jessica was diagnosed with alopecia. In the early years of her life, she had alopecia areata, a form…
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