She is the author of A Well-Informed Patient's Guide to Breast Surgery, which won the 1993 Rose Kushner Award of the American Medical Writers Association. A graduate of New York University's Science and Environmental Reporting Program in 1989, she was a medical reporter in Manhattan for several years. Now living in Israel, she works in the publications department of the Weizmann Institute of Science. During her two years researching the subject of spinal cord repair, Vikhanski attended numerous neuroscience conferences and interviewed more than 150 scientists, researchers, advocates, and people with spinal cord injuries in eight countries.