Joel Streed (@JoelStreed)
Joel is manager of the team that creates content for the Mayo Clinic News Network. He is a former broadcast journalist and news director. Joel has been with Mayo Clinic since 2001, first as a contract employee and then officially joining the staff in 2006. In 2012 Joel accompanied a research team to Mt. Everest and reported on their studies of high-altitude athletes.
It's the highest mountain in the world and it’s also a natural laboratory for studying heart disease, lung problems, muscle loss, sleeping disorders and new medical[...]
To be told he had melanoma cancer totally shocked Joel Saunders and his family who live in Fort Wayne, Indiana. An auto technician (window installer),[...]
In 2007, Kimmy Lockwood decided to be screened for weight-loss surgery to address a longtime weight problem. Little did she know that decision would be[...]
Today, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in favor of Mayo Collaborative Services in a case against Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., that dates[...]
Having gone to several doctors elsewhere without receiving answers, this previously athletic student, Nick, and his mom, Becky, arrived to Mayo Clinic. They were exhausted.[...]
During the summer of 2011, my husband, David, underwent a series of tests which revealed extremely high levels of a certain protein in his blood. [...]
You may be eating too much if you're not getting enough sleep. Mayo Clinic researchers studied 17 healthy young men and women between the ages of[...]
Anistasia Smith and her mother, Bridgette Grunewald, give a big thumbs-up to Brian Carlsen, M.D., and the team at Mayo Clinic who cared for the[...]
By Susan Pepperdine "My doctor came in, and in his best Marcus Welby voice told me I was going to die,” Marlys Fox vividly remembers.[...]
People with symptoms suggesting (REM) rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, have twice the risk of developing (MCI) mild cognitive impairment or Parkinson’s disease within four years[...]
Rosalee Johns says she has her life back thanks to a freezing therapy called cryoablation that restored her heartbeat to normal. In 2008, Johns, then[...]
My story begins in 1998. At the age of 32 I was diagnosed with bilateral hip dysplasia. Because I was a breech baby at birth[...]