[caption id="" align="alignright" width="352"] Dr. Heilman climbs a glacier in Alaska[/caption] As a college student, Raymond Heilman, M.D., nephrologist at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Arizona,…

Original story from Mayo Clinic News Network The Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program of Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus, Nemours Children’s Specialty Care, Jacksonville, and Wolfson Children’s…

Please join us online to watch the next Behind the Shields program focusing on 'Healthy Living'. You can watch the presentation live online on Tuesday, August 22,…

Halloween is an especially meaningful day for Jared Ausnehmer and his family. On Oct. 31, 2011, Jared's family saw a news story about a man…

A "blood donation challenge" is a friendly competition between two or more groups with the goal of seeing who can get more people to donate…

  Sisters by Heart, the largest hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) non-profit in the United States, has officially joined the HLHS Consortium created by Mayo…

Meet Richard. Richard’s path to transplantation began when he started experiencing problems related to hepatitis C. When Richard’s liver became too damaged to function, he…

You are invited to the fifth annual Feel the Beat event on October 14, 2017 in Rochester, Minnesota! Sign up today and check back soon…

This post was written by Debra Karger, Education Specialist II, in the Transfusion Medicine Division at Mayo Clinic. A long time ago in a galaxy…

Lisa Zerby, a Laboratory Assistant in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, is carrying on her family’s long-standing tradition of blood…

Your journey to organ transplantation will include many important decisions, including where to receive your transplant care. The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) is…

Did you know that your digestive tract is teeming with trillions of bacteria? In fact, there are a greater number of bacteria in your intestines than…