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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.

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

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.

Ty Wiberg, a 13-year-old Chippewa Falls, Wis., native, bears more than his share of burdens in life.

Mitzi Roberts has been a dancer all of her life and is a breast cancer survivor. She and her oncologist donned their dance gear, cued the music and competed in Dancing with the Mankato Stars to raise ...