Heartbeats

A young mother's life is thrown into doubt by a potentially fatal disease. Twenty years after Melissa lost her eye in a freak accident, she's back in hospital to remove a face-distorting growth that could be damaging her brain.

Due to complications in Melissa's growth removal, the risk of deadly brain infection escalates. Terry's brain tumor has advanced despite aggressive chemotherapy. Now she'll soon learn if a new and experimental combination of chemo will bring her better news.

An independent businesswoman and mother of three confronts the unthinkable. Doctors struggle to find the cause of Melissa's nausea.

A 35-year-old mother of three elects to have a mastectomy to fight one of the deadliest forms of breast cancer. A young woman steels herself to undergo yet another surgery, but will it finally put the memory of a devastating work accident behind her.

A vacation in South Africa is rudely interrupted by a troubling discovery. A young woman's first pregnancy is threatened by a blood disease that could send her to emergency at any time.

After months of aggressive treatment, Karen receives news of her lung cancer. The final hurdle for the birth of Nicole's child is a leap she's not certain she can make.

Pamela has to surrender her life to the emotional grind and physical side effects of daily radiation to fight breast cancer. Will she be selected to try groundbreaking new treatment? Pregnant with twins, Manuela's high blood pressure puts her life, and that of her babies, at risk.

Manuela's high-risk pregnancy takes an unexpected turn. Stephanie's terrifying diagnosis threatens not only her chance of having children, but her very survival.

Suddenly engulfed in silence, a cochlear implant is Jennifer's last chance to hear again. With dreams of having a family at stake, Stephanie has tumors on her ovaries, but only surgery will reveal if they're malignant and invasive.

Stephanie's surgery takes an unexpected turn. Jennifer's cochlear implant gets turned on, but there are no guarantees it will work.

A vibrant young journalist confronts life altering news. Anne's life is almost shut down by the crippling pain she's endured for too long.

A young journalist undergoes intricate surgery to stop the spread of thyroid cancer. A medical school graduate's life has been ruled by pain for too long and must finally confront risky back surgery.

A young journalist and editor must ingest radioactive iodine to fight off thyroid cancer. Carol's team tests for movement to see if she suffered catastrophic spinal damage.

A young woman must face the effects of chemotherapy as she battles Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Signy's dreams of figure skating glory are doused by the agony of a fractured foot.

Grace needs a painful thyroid removed. Rachel's never known the full world of sound, a cochlear implant could change all of that for the first time in her life, but is she a good candidate?

Will Rachel's cochlear implant prove successful? Lisa is a carrier of a deadly breast cancer gene, to fight it she's had a mastectomy and hysterectomy. Now her fears can rest with a final stage: full breast reconstruction.