From the moment of receiving their diagnosis, children with cancer and their families deal with agonizingly high levels of stress. And deciding to undergo potentially lethal therapy only heightens that...

Doctors at the University of Minnesota’s children’s hospital traded in their white coats for ones embroidered with a new name. With its $25 million donation, the Minnesota Masonic Charities...

Traditional magnetic resonance imagining, or MRI, machines have their patients drawn into a large, noisy tube. But now, the MRI process could become as simple as strapping on a helmet, thanks to a new...

After being fitted with a netlike cap of electrodes and wires, the subjects were given unusual directions: “Don’t move — just imagine that you are.” When they did, those who were...

Since mid-August, an uncommon respiratory illness has sent almost 450 wheezing patients to hospitals across most of the country — including at least 11 cases at the University of Minnesota Children’s...

Before the team of researchers could collaborate across continents, they started collecting vials of puma blood. Now those zoology, ecology, genomics and veterinary diseases experts — who hail from...

With a little more than a year until its grand opening, the site of the University of Minnesota’s upcoming ambulatory care center looks like a skeleton of its future self. Hard hats, caged lights...

Minnesota advanced in its plan for making medical marijuana available for patients next year as it opened up applications Friday for potential manufacturers of the drug. State health officials say the...

   Not every scientist’s lab space is completely consumed by a giant dinosaur, but Kenneth Lacovara’s is.    The Dreadnoughtus, a massive prehistoric land animal, was recently...

Gov. Mark Dayton applied to the University of Minnesota Medical School when it was a top leader in medical research decades ago, and now he has set the goal of returning it to its former glory. After years...

When other children were nursing cuts, bruises and colds, a young Michael Osterholm decided he wanted to study infections and illnesses. “Even in high school, I knew this is what I wanted to do,”...