Even though it was somewhat expected, hearing the words still came as a shock. ""My husband and I both got teary eyed," Lori Miller says[...]

"We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too." Helen Hayes

When mere mortals tune into American Ninja Warrior, a reality TV show where contestants face obstacles like the Bridge of Blades, Jumping Spider and Half-Pipe[...]

Some of us have a hard time deciding what we want to be when we grow up. Bobbi Pritt, M.D., director of Mayo Clinic's Clinical[...]

"If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." Frank A. Clark

In the summer of 2013, Anika Geibel was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a type of brain tumor. She was just 7 1/2 years old. The diagnosis[...]

When Rylee Melius, Lydia Mindermann and Andrea Richard first began working on their Mayo Free Time mobile app, it was for two reasons: to have fun,[...]

"Compassion is an action word with no boundaries. It is never wasted." Prince

Imagine receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis at age 47. Now imagine calling that diagnosis "a gift." That's how Bonnie Dinneen Hedrick describes her diagnosis with[...]

How do you appropriately  honor someone who spent a lifetime devoted to improving the care and well-being of others? Someone considered one of the "most[...]

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot[...]

A month earlier, Jonathan Duzan had been in great shape. Now, the 30-year-old was struggling to walk down a hallway at Mayo Clinic Hospital’s Saint[...]