Health & Wellness - March 2012 Archives

Hip Replacement Can Be Reasonable Option Even for Older Adults March 30, 2012 Dear Mayo Clinic: I am an 84-year-old woman with a ...

Desert soil may harbor a potentially invasive fungus. The fungal infection of the gastrointestinal tract which mimics cancer and inflammatory bowel disease, appears to be emerging in the Southwestern United States ...

ROCHESTER, Minnesota — 29 de marzo de 2012.  El Centro de Mayo Clinic para Comunicación Social llevará a cabo su primera conferencia en la ciudad ...

PHOENIX, Arizona — 28 de marzo de 2012.  Mayo Clinic de Arizona y la Sociedad Americana contra el Cáncer anunciaron que en el otoño de ...

CHICAGO, Illinois — 28 de marzo de 2012.  Una red de investigación, dirigida por un médico de Mayo Clinic, descubrió que la inyección en el ...

ROCHESTER, Minnesota — 27 de marzo de 2012.  Las investigaciones sobre los cálculos renales en las moscas de la fruta podría ser la clave para ...

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — 27 de marzo de 2012.  ¿Sería posible encontrar una forma de tratar un tipo agresivo de cáncer de mama mediante la obstaculización ...

Spring has only just arrived, but tick season is well under way. Physicians are seeing new cases of tick-borne illness several weeks earlier than usual, likely because a mild winter in much of the country made life easier for ticks and their offspring. That means it’s time for gardeners, hikers, pet owners and others who spend time outdoors to take steps to protect themselves -- and to watch for symptoms of tick-borne illness if they do come in contact with the tiny bloodsuckers. “We’ve already started getting positives for tick-borne disease such as Lyme disease, anaplasmosis and babesiosis,” says Bobbi Pritt, M.D., a Mayo Clinic microbiologist and director of the Clinical Parasitology and Virology Laboratories. That is a month or two earlier than normal for Minnesota and other states with unusually warm weather in recent months are likely seeing the same.

Organ transplantation has seen tremendous improvements over the years.  For example, kidney transplants are very successful operations today...but unless a patient gets an organ from an identical ...

Si le pregunta a Ernesto Boleaga qué cosas disfruta en la vida, le dirá que le gusta el arte, los museos, los libros y los viajes. Y la comida. La comida juega un papel muy importante en la vida de Boleaga, después de todo,  trabaja en mercadotecnia para una compañía internacional de alimentos en Texas. Su trabajo lo lleva a visitar plantas procesadoras de alimentos en distintas partes del mundo.

How to predict outcomes for common heart procedures is the focus of a Mayo Clinic study presented this week at the annual meeting of the American College of ...

A recent Mayo Clinic study might change the way we assess obesity in individuals with heart disease. The researchers found individuals who were “skinny” according to BMI, ...