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.
The below excerpts come from a USA Today article: Chris Norton, a sophomore football player at Luther College (Decorah, Iowa) who suffered a catrostrophic injury[...]
New imaging technology helps determine cause, treatment for heart symptoms Many surfers fear sharks. But not Mike Politowicz, 45, a seasoned surfer with 30 years[...]
After a decade of research and interviewing more than 6,000 U.S. families and children, Mayo Clinic researchers— in partnership with numerous national mental health advocacy[...]
A research network led by a Mayo Clinic physician found that stem cells obtained from bone marrow delivered two to three weeks after a person[...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeZZIzLRxGs It wasn’t supposed to happen. A freak accident during a college football game leaves a player paralyzed. Doctors gave him a 3-percent chance of[...]
Mayo Clinic began because of a military connection and our commitment to servicemen and women has never faltered. As we celebrate Veteran’s Day this year,[...]
On June 14, 2011, after a 107-day wait in the hospital at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Kirk Watson, 44, received the news he’d been[...]
My story began almost 4 years ago with the birth of my husband's and my first son, Aidan, born September 2007. Mayo Clinic became involved[...]
When Mackenzie Chicos, an active 8-year-old from Owatonna, Minn., woke up for school one morning seeing spots in her left eye, her family didn’t suspect[...]
I went to Mayo Clinic for heart valve replacement surgery on October 13th, was released on the 18th, and can only say excellent things about[...]
We scurried like mice across the street under the cover of darkness, hugging the side of the St. Mary building when we reached it to[...]
Austin Adamson, 19, was a day away from having heart surgery that would require a median sternotomy – “cracking open” the sternum (breastbone) to reach[...]