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.
On Monday, Sept. 20, Mayo Clinic Children’s Center pediatrician, Dr. Robert Jacobson, and Leah Espinda-Brandt, disease prevention and control public health nurse manager with Olmsted[...]
Q: Even people who have been vaccinated are getting sick with the delta variant, so why should I bother getting the shot? A: COVID-19 vaccines[...]
On Tuesday, Sept. 14, Dr. Priya Sampathkumar, a Mayo Clinic infectious diseases expert, fielded questions about COVID-19 from news reporters and producers. Journalists who have already registered on the[...]
As they walked along the beach and collected stones on a warm, sunny day in Hawaii in 2019, Rob and Amanda Blasius of Phoenix reflected[...]
On Wednesday, Aug. 25, Dr. Andrew Badley, Chair of the COVID-19 Task Force at Mayo Clinic, fielded questions from news reporters and producers about COVID-19.[...]
The Food and Drug Administration gave full approval to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, Aug. 23, making it the first COVID-19 vaccine to receive[...]
COVID-19 and especially the spread of the delta variant have created a whole new set of challenges this year. And now, children across the US[...]
Are you wondering about booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine? You are not alone. "While the emergency use authorizations for COVID-19 vaccines do not[...]
— By Clarence Jones, a community research collaborator Editor’s note: Mayo Clinic advances health equity by engaging communities in research that addresses their health concerns[...]
It was more than 20 years ago when former information technology manager, Bob Lemoine was diagnosed with hepatitis C and eventually, liver cancer. In September[...]
Already a concern before the COVID-19 pandemic, reduced resiliency and burnout among health care providers has become its own crisis. At Mayo Clinic, a number[...]
Evidence that opioids provide pain relief for migraine headaches is low or insufficient, a large Mayo Clinic meta-analysis published recently in JAMA has found. However,[...]