Living donation is a wonderful act of generosity and courage, and the preferred alternative giving hope to people waiting for a deceased kidney or liver…

“I always knew it was important to give blood, but it has never meant more to me than it does now,” Bekkie says. At almost…

Our Parkside Gallery was opened by Charter House in 2015 as a way to give back to the Rochester community.  This rotating art gallery featuring…

Celiac disease is a global disease, and currently the only available treatment is a gluten-free diet. In the developed world there are a lot of…

When proteins fold improperly, the consequences can be dire. At Mayo Clinic, Marina Ramirez-Alvarado, Ph.D., studies one type of protein abnormality associated with a complex…

  Shelley Kleinwort, a Business Intelligence Manager for Mayo Medical Laboratories, has been donating blood for the last 25 years. Growing up in Byron, Minnesota,…

Chronic pain is a prevalent disease, affecting 1 in 10 U.S. adults, according a 2012 national survey . Commonly these patients are prescribed opioids to…

If you have celiac disease, you may rely on commercial test kits for detecting gluten in food. But how reliable are these test kits for…

Every blood donor who visits our Blood Donor Center has a unique story, and many have a reason or inspiration that has sparked a desire…

Meet Ed, one of Mayo Clinic’s oldest and longest-surviving kidney transplant patients. Ed’s life has been shaped by the state of his kidney. He was…

An exciting paper was recently published in Nature Genetics titled “The complex genetics of hypoplastic left heart syndrome”.  This elegant study was led by a…

One of the first questions that people diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have is, "What can I eat, and will changing my diet help…