Patient Files

When the Degenharts bought their house, they knew it would be a fixer-upper. But they didn’t know that it would land their son, Jos ...

Marylou Kelly Streznewski describes herself as a model of health. And for most of her life, she took it for granted. But that chan ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and scie ...

Cory Cohen’s slide into addiction is one that echoes all over the country. Cohen is 22 years old, grew up in the suburbs of ...

My name is Diego Luke, and I am a 17-year-old high school junior in St. Paul, Minnesota. Grow ...

Linda Jara went to the doctor in December of last year for a simple sinus infection. By Christmas, she was in heart failure. Walki ...

In September of 2014, sports medicine physician Michael Ross received a shocking diagnosis: Stage 4 colon cancer. Ross is an avid athlete ...

Filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert are “explorers in residence” for National Geographic — they have lived in Botswana fo ...

Giving birth to a child for the first time is a big step into the unknown. You can prepare for it, do breathing exercises and take birthi ...

When we think of people being addicted to prescription drugs, we usually think of opiods or stimulants, however there are a growing numbe ...

What a lot of us really want from our physicians is care – care that goes beyond managing illness or symptoms. Maureen OR ...

When my mother died earlier this year, I was able to prepare myself, my family, and my mother, herself, for her death. Difficult health a ...

Ellie Brown is a local photographer who has been documenting her father’s development of dementia.  A couple of years ago, the ...

Imagine you’re a parent and your child is not developing like other children her age, but doctors can’t tell you why. You tak ...

In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, the gay community was hit hard. But contrary to public perception, not all those who were infecte ...