My name is Sarah Rosenfeld and I’m an NIH patient and volunteer. I’m passionate about paying forward the amazing gift of care and life that my dedicated NIH doctors and researchers have given to me. I’m working to support patients through Friends of Patients at the NIH because I know how incredibly scary and isolating […]
Fatima, 19, from Mauritania, celebrated her treatments by naming every bag of life-saving blood cells she received. Her aunt, Mary, through tears, calls her the “bravest” woman she has ever met. Fatima has severe aplastic anemia — her bone marrow produced no blood cells. A year ago, Fatima called her aunt and uncle (Americans who live in Vietnam) […]
Friends at NIH Helps Deliver Hope Anthony P. is a postal carrier. So he knows that old saying -“neither rain, nor sleet, nor gloom of night” – as well as anyone. Unfortunately, Anthony has an illness that can painfully keep him from his appointed rounds and put his life on hold. Anthony has Sickle Cell […]
May is when we celebrate Mother’s Day The medical team at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) nursed Antoinette Royster from the aftermath of a coma to recovery, but she attributes Friends at NIH with saving her life. Without the financial support from Friends, she says she would have been forced to […]
