The health beat in Rochester, Minn. includes research (breaking the news that human stem-cell studies are underway locally against ALS), consumer news, construction, investigation (such as uncovering the Mayo Clinic’s Mayo Medical Laboratories lost the contract for newborn blood screening), daily news coverage (such as Mayo Clinic’s sesquicentennial celebration) and feature writing (such as a weekend package about life as a transgender person that carries suicide risk and health discrimination; breaking the news that Mayo Clinic plans a transgender health pilot program).
