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A gift of a T-shirt has lifted the spirits of one dialysis patient — who now inspires others.

Darlene Evenson sounds a bit like Goldilocks when she talks about the process of finding a medication to treat her rheumatoid arthritis. "The first one hurt my liver, the second hurt my eyes," she say...

What do you give a man on chemotherapy? A bejeweled bag, of course.

When people develop breast cancer, which poses a 12% lifetime risk for all women, it's a scary time. But it can be even more distressing for women who have the BRCA 1 mutation.

Jacky Smith admits it. “I’m stubborn,” says the 57-year-old Winnebago resident. “Very stubborn.” So, when she had shortness of breath and chest pain one day at work,...

Mackenzie “Mick” Caron remembers very little of the evening of Jan. 29, 2015, but his parents will never forget it.

Every Wednesday night, Gordy Wanshura rolls out his yoga mat on the floor of the Mayo Clinic Professional and Community Center in Red Wing. “If you’d have told me two years ago that I&rsqu...

When Robert Stratton, then a Hormel executive from Austin, went into cardiac arrest while sleeping in January 2010 — two months from his 60th birthday and possible retirement — he had...

Todd Larson was splitting wood when he felt a pain in his chest. He then did what many men do when experiencing the telltale sign of a heart attack: he went into denial.

World Kidney Day is March 12, and Maureen "Mo" Salter of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, wants to share a personal story about why kidney donation is important.