Original title
Heartbeats
Released
1/1/2004
Origin country
CA
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
29
Documentary reality series chronicling the experiences of women and staff at Sunnybrook and Women's College Hospitals in Toronto.
Kim gets groundbreaking surgery to fight deadly cervical cancer. Lisa's struggle with miscarriages may soon be over.
Two weeks after Kim's cervical cancer surgery, she's called into hospital and her frustration mounts. Lisa confronts the first surgery of her life
Theresa's severe diabetes puts her pregnancy at high risk. Francine struggles with crippling hand pain
Eileen learns the results from her breast biopsy. Complications arise from Theresa's high risk pregnancy.
Bob waits while his wife, Eileen, has life saving surgery. Lisa Marie's hidden skin disease.
Kathleen needs double bypass surgery, but her diabetes could complicate the outcome. A young mother of two children confronts breast cancer treatment.
Kathleen's open heart surgery has a roadblock. Frances has suffered the loss of twin girls born prematurely. Pregnant again, her ultrasound reveals problems.
A first time mother-to-be must live out the final weeks before birth confined to hospital, or face catastrophic consequences. Cancer costs Pat her left breast. Now a new journey: hope after mastectomy.
Fear of uterine rupture could turn into reality for Mona. A tumor recurs in the most unlikely of places.
Stella gets a chance to turn the corner on the facial tumor that's plagued her for almost ten years. Bridget returns to hospital after her mastectomy to obtain the pathology results.
Frustration mounts as Bridget's radiation treatment is delayed. A young woman takes the chance to regain hearing after years of loss.
Crystal has a chance to hear again. Linda has battled pain and numbness in her spine, if it's not dealt with now, she could face lifelong, crippling disability.
Melanie's life-saving surgery to remove a rare tumor near her brain may bear a heavy price. Jennifer is pregnant with her first child, but her struggle with a panic disorder prevents her from simple tasks.
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.
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