When Scott and Carol Van Dyke arrived in Ireland, they followed an itinerary created by an unusual travel agent: Carol's doctor, Conor Loftus, M.D. "Dr. Loftus kept telling us to go to Ireland," Scott says. "When we finally decided to go, he plotted every bed and breakfast, every pub — [...]

New research swirling around England has us feeling a bit better about what we thought was a bad daily habit. The research suggests one's body probably/maybe/possibly can handle up to 25 CUPS OF COFFEE PER DAY! (We'll take a double trenta, please. Just black.) Before you join us, there is, [...]

"I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee." Flash Rosenberg

Four years after testing confirmed Georg Lochner was a perfect bone marrow match for Christy Stubbe, Georg flew from Germany to meet the woman who credits him with saving her life.

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Mayo Clinic's Sailing to Hope Survivorship breakfast gives breast cancer patients and survivors the opportunity to connect, heal, and look to the future.

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"The miracle is this — the more we share, the more we have." Leonard Nimoy

Justin Lanners remembers the exact day of his stroke. "April 18, 2017," he says. "It was a Tuesday." That day, Justin awoke at 5 a.m. with what he describes as a "weird buzzing noise" in his right ear. Still half-awake, Justin tuned out the buzzing as he made his way to an upstairs bathroom. "I didn't have a lot of balance, which I thought was really weird," he tells us. "Then, as I was standing there in the bathroom, I fell against our linen closet."

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The signs of aging are there, if you're paying attention. It's a little harder to climb the stairs, get out of bed, fit into the pants you bought last year. "As you age, your body stars to slow down, and tasks that used to be easy now require a bit more effort," Daniel Gaz of the Mayo Clinic Healthy Living Program tells our friends at mayoclinic.org. That includes burning off that daily doughnut. While that may sound discouraging, Gaz says there is a way to fight the changes that come with more trips around the sun: "It's possible to slow down the aging process through regular exercise."

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"I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou

Angie Mikkelson used to want to fly under the radar and not tell others she'd had a heart transplant. But then she realized the effect she could have by sharing her story and encouraging others to donate.

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Mother-daughter duo Dani and Aleia Johnson originally created their unique head scarves for their mom/grandma, Barb Fisher. The scarves now are part of a care kit for others battling ovarian cancer.

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"To make a difference in someone’s life, you don’t have to be brilliant, rich, beautiful or perfect. You just have to care." Mandy Hale

More than 60 years ago, Alice Kalin was told the cancer in her leg would end her life. But a trip to Mayo Clinic and some advice from her surgeon would change everything.

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The goal of the Mayo Clinic Blood Donor Program's upcoming campaign, Pints for Preemies, is to adequately supply Mayo Clinic with enough blood for its newest and tiniest patients.

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"It isn’t where you come from; it’s where you’re going that counts." Ella Fitzgerald

A newspaper story about 12-year-old Ashton Hanson and his need for a kidney caught the eye of Jan Germundson, who then stepped in to give Ashton the gift of life.

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Michele Woodrum, a CRNA at Mayo Clinic, didn't hesitate when a friend invited her to Hope Town in the Bahamas to provide health care to islanders after last month's hurricane.

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"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men." Herman Melville

Although it's been nearly three years since his knee replacement, David Knisely keeps in touch with his Mayo Clinic surgeon to report on where — and how far — that knee has taken him in retirement.

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The experience of having a child in the NICU often creates connections among families, who provide a unique source of support made possible through shared experience.

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"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’" C.S. Lewis

Just three weeks after a combined liver and kidney transplant at Mayo Clinic in Florida, Chris Nutter was able to fly to New York to surprise his daughter and walk her down the aisle.

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"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us." Ashley Montagu

Dana Brennan Duffney, a desk operations specialist at Mayo Clinic, launched the nonprofit Gentle Wings to provide free photography sessions for families who have lost infants and those receiving care in the neonatal ICU.

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On the eve of surgery to fix a pinched nerve,  Father Eugene Doyle composed a prayer for all those at Mayo Clinic who would be caring for him the following morning.

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