Minnesota - February 2020 Archives

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic is well-positioned, with remarkable progress in 2019, to reinforce its leadership in patient care, research and education, and drive forward the transformation of health ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. ― Human bodies constantly produce thousands of perfectly folded proteins, but some proteins get misfolded. An excess of these misfolded proteins can overwhelm the body's ...

PHOENIX — Robin Roberts, award-winning anchor of ABC's "Good Morning America," was elected by the Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees as a public trustee at its quarterly meeting ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — A Mayo Clinic transplant team recently performed the 20,000th transplant at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. This major milestone comes as researchers study the potential ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Diabetes affects nearly 1 in 10 adults in the U.S., of these millions, more than 90% have Type 2 diabetes. Controlling blood ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. ― An approach based on artificial intelligence (AI) may allow EKGs to be used to screen for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in the future. With hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. ― The most common type of heart disease ― coronary artery disease ― affects 6.7% of adults and accounts for 20% of deaths ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. ― A cancer tumor's ability to mutate allows it to escape from chemotherapy and other attempts to kill it. So, encouraging mutations would not be a ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Thirteen hospitals across Mayo Clinic received star ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for Overall Hospital Quality. Six of the ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — In a new paper published Feb. 4 in JAMA, Mayo Clinic researchers describe the benefits of in-home noninvasive ventilation therapy ― which ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. ― Men and women differ in the way their vascular systems age and the rate at which atherosclerosis ― the hardening of artery ...