Patient Stories
A few months ago, Sharon Stroehl was coming up on a milestone birthday. And she wasn't too happy about it. "I was having a hard[...]
It was "Superhero Day" in the proton beam treatment area at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Arizona, and 6-year-old Iram Sobarzo had been ready for almost[...]
On Dec. 1, 2015, Miranda Mead learned that the back pain she'd attributed to a fall was actually a tumor. She was diagnosed with Ewing's[...]
Two summers ago, Henry Brown began experiencing unexplained pain in his right arm. His parents took him to see numerous doctors in his home state[...]
In the mountains of Guatemala, in a small Mayan village called Xepatan, is a house. A newly constructed house that sits in stark contrast to[...]
Lisa Gifford is a mother. She's also a pediatric nurse. So she knew something wasn't right with her youngest son, Hunter. "He was having trouble[...]
Nine years ago, during a "dream family vacation" at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, 9-year-old Katharine Rhoten (or "Katie," as she likes to be[...]
By any measure, 2016 was a big year for tennis pro Madison Keys. The 22-year-old cracked the Women's Tennis Association top 10, the first American[...]
Conventional wisdom says Kim Shobe should not be alive right now. One of Mayo Clinic's early lung transplant patients, Kim received a single-lung transplant in[...]
Social media can bring out the worst in people. But it can also bring out the best, as it did last week when it helped[...]