Deborah Gopstein
By Deborah Gopstein
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News True Tales of Valor
At the gym one day a few years back, Howard Leavitt started chatting with a Korean War veteran at a nearby locker. Leavitt told the man that he too had served in Korea, as a Marine, and he was aghast to hear the man respond, “I didn’t even know there were Jews in the Marine…
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Culture Models Open Door for Gaucher Cure
A team of scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, recently solved the three-dimensional structure of glucocerebrosidase, the enzyme whose deficiency causes Gaucher disease. As a result of this development, new therapies for Gaucher patients may become available soon. The development was reported in July in Biotech Week. “This now gives us…
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Culture ‘Movement for Life’: One Woman Strives Against Gaucher
Suzanne Krupskas’s patients say that she is the best physical therapist they’ve ever seen. She’s better than most, they say, because she has a unique perspective that helps her empathize with her patients. After all, Krupskas has been coping with her own physical pain for more than 20 years. Krupskas has Type 1 Gaucher disease,…
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Culture Little Girl’s Affliction Sparks Flowering of Creativity
In the close-knit community of Greenmeadow, Calif., a 2-year-old girl diagnosed with a rare Jewish genetic disease cannot talk, but her spirit speaks loudly enough to touch many people beyond her neighborhood. There is no cure for the disease afflicting Sophia Herzog-Sachs, who was diagnosed with Niemann-Pick Type A in early 2002 and whose life…
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