Patient Stories
On July 4, 1939, baseball great Lou Gehrig said good-bye to the game and his fans after being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a[...]
It's been said, sometimes even by us, that there are so many great stories around Mayo Clinic, it can be hard to know where to[...]
There was a time when Cesar Alvarez was the one doing the rescuing. But the retired Los Angeles firefighter now focuses his attention on the[...]
Leave it to Facebook to turn a simple way to pass time between appointments into a viral effort to raise funds for pediatric cancer research. As[...]
Had Jezzabella Snow been born a few years earlier, her life might be very different. Her mother, Jamie Snow, tells the Mankato Free Press that[...]
Cathy Emerson is hoping her third transplant will be the charm. Her first came in 1999, when she received a new pancreas in an attempt[...]
It all started with a pesky, persistent pimple (or that's what she presumed it was, anyway). Deidre Tennyson had a mole on her left cheek[...]
The diagnosis came when April Rubeck was 25 weeks pregnant. Doctors sat her down and informed her and her husband, Ryan, that their unborn son,[...]
The call came while Bree Hanson was in study hall, just days after she'd found the perfect prom dress. A junior at Tioga High School in[...]
When his doctor found a cancerous tumor in Rodney Nelson's eye during a routine exam, he and his wife, Teri, could have taken their referral[...]