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.
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With a grim prognosis of advanced pancreatic cancer, Dr. Jim Smith had little hope for his future. That is, until he met a team of[...]
Cameron Kaipainen and his parents spent years searching for explanations to his ongoing and confusing medical problems. It wasn't until arriving at Mayo Clinic in[...]
In this Mayo Clinic Radio Health Minute, Dr. Tufia Haddad, a Mayo Clinic oncologist explains how Mayo Clinic’s collaboration with IBM Watson, is matching patients with clinical trials.[...]
The car-bike accident Gary Pettis was involved in on Nov. 19, 2019, could have ended his life. But the accident led to an unexpected kidney[...]
According to a new paper in Nature Communications, a protein known to help cells defend against infection also helps their mitochondria. The protein, one in[...]
Carolyn Judson repeatedly tried to no avail to get to the bottom of the episodes of shaking, sensitivity to touch and other mysterious symptoms that[...]
Of all the ways to battle winter's dry skin issues, the cheapest and easiest remedy may be petroleum jelly. “It’s an oil derived from paraffin wax that has[...]
Lori Earley feared that worsening symptoms of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome would put an end to the successful art career she'd worked so hard to build. After[...]
Mary Jane Moline has never been one to shy away from a challenge. So when she was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor, she was[...]
The medication Jim Robinson took to treat his leukemia triggered side effects that kept him from the art he loves. So his Mayo care team[...]
For years, the neurologic disorder trigeminal neuralgia dominated Ellen Whitebird's world. It caused searing pain that destroyed her ability to enjoy life. Then in 2019,[...]