"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young." Theodore Roosevelt
It started during a cab ride last spring. On a two-week medical mission to southern Turkey, Mayo Clinic residents Allen Swanson, M.D., Waleed Brinjikji, M.D., and Paul[...]
Everyone has hobbies. Some people like to read. Some like to sew. Or watch birds. Or weave baskets under water. Others make fitness and exercise[...]
"I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing." Marsha Doble
If you've been wondering what's up with all those folks sporting fancy new plastic wristbands, well, welcome to the club. It turns out these fitness-tracking[...]
If you find yourself walking through Concourse G at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, or Concourse A at Midway International Airport, be sure to look up.[...]
If we didn't have birthdays, it wouldn't have been the 110th anniversary of Dr. Seuss' big day. And if he'd never been born, well then[...]
It's pretty safe to say that Panos Anastasiadis, Ph.D., chair of Mayo's Department of Cancer Biology in Florida, will never look at a fried egg[...]
"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." Theodor Seuss Geisel
It's all downhill from here for Mayo Clinic plastic and orthopedic surgeon Brian Carlsen, M.D. Not as a hand surgeon, mind you, but from a[...]
As a nurse at Mayo Clinic, Sheree Cook has seen the suffering and loss that comes from heart disease. But the toll the disease can[...]