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.
When he was just five years old, Jesse Jensen of Missoula, Mont. began having tics, or involuntary movements, and was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome .[...]
Roy Exum recently wrote a comical editorial for the website Chattanoogan.com. Here are a few pieces from his article: Several years ago I was an[...]
Surgeons at Mayo Clinic have developed a new robotic procedure performed through the mouth (transorally) to treat cancers of the tongue base and tonsils. Mayo[...]
Written by heart attack survivor Susan Cardelli: Just last week was the 10th Anniversary of my heart attack---January 25, 2001---or as the medical community would[...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YMZAV02XoI Mayo Clinic and the Minnesota Twins are teaming up again this season to help improve the health of Twins fans. And this time, we[...]
The moment finally came. But it was an uneasy one at first. MaryEllen Sheppard was about to receive her last round of chemotherapy at Mayo[...]
If you've been shopping at Mall of America the past few months, you may have seen the "Healthy Match" game from Mayo Clinic -- interactive[...]
Mayo Clinic’s new Center for Social Media has produced a Patient Video Guide series to help new patients and their families better know what to[...]
Mayo has been committed to using the latest communication technology in service to patients since the earliest days of practice. According to family tradition, young Charlie[...]
I was 9 years old and had arrived in Rochester for a minor, surgical procedure. While navigating our way around Saint Marys Hospital, my family[...]
Mayo Clinic had already been a source of invaluable consultations for my long-time autoimmune Sjogren’s Syndrome and for genetic counseling to ascertain potential genetic predisposition[...]
When Brenda M. woke up with flu-like symptoms in August 2007, she had no idea just how grave her condition was. Later in the day[...]