Florida - March 2016 Archives

Mayo Clinic Researchers Find Way to Prevent Accumulation of Amyloid Plaque, a Hallmark of Alzheimer’s Disease

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Mayo Clinic researchers led a laboratory study that found a new way to prevent the accumulation of amyloid plaque – a key feature ...

By Kevin Punsky • March 31, 2016

Mayo Clinic’s Colon Cancer Awareness Campaign Wins ASGE Award

Promoting the use of colonoscopy through visual graphics, a team of gastroenterologists on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus has won the Community Outreach Award from ...

By Kevin Punsky • March 30, 2016

Mayo Clinic Invests $100 Million in Destination Medical Center in the Southeast

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Advancing its position as the premier medical destination center for health care in the Southeast, Mayo Clinic’s campus in Florida will invest ...

By Kevin Punsky • March 29, 2016

Florida Completes 3000 Liver Transplants

The liver transplant team at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, recently completed the 3,000th transplant since the liver program started in 1998. Mayo Clinic’s Florida ...

By Paul Scotti • March 28, 2016

Mayo Clinic Schools Advance in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Grad School Rankings

ROCHESTER, Minn. — U.S. News & World Report today released its 2017 rankings for Best Graduate Schools across the nation. Mayo Medical School and Mayo ...

By Deb Anderson • March 15, 2016

Drug Combo Shuts Down Stem Cells, Tumor Growth in Lung Cancer

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Researchers on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus have shut down one of the most common and lethal forms of lung cancer by combining ...

By Marcia Mattson • March 14, 2016

Nanotechnology Lab Opens in Florida to Research, Apply Minute Materials to Cancer Care

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — With support from the state of Florida, Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus has opened a state-of-the-art laboratory for nanotechnology research, an emerging field of ...

By Marcia Mattson • March 10, 2016