Research - January 2017 Archives

Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the plasma cells that reside inside bone marrow. Plasma cells produce certain proteins that build up the immune ...

More than 45-percent of American men are infected with genital HPV, according to a recent study published in JAMA Oncology. The study also found the ...

PHOENIX – Mayo Clinic researchers have found that engaging in mentally stimulating activities, even late in life, may protect against new-onset mild cognitive impairment, which ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Reliable assessment of comatose patients in intensive care units is critical to the patients’ care. Providers must recognize clinical status changes ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — When a woman becomes pregnant, many changes occur in her body. One of those changes is in the levels of various hormones ...

More women in the U.S. are dying of cervical cancer than previously thought, and the rate of Black women dying is similar to women in developing ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. – More than 5 million people in the U.S. have Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive disease that destroys memory and other important mental ...

Alzheimer’s disease affects nearly 5½ million Americans. That number is expected to triple by 2050 if effective treatments cannot be found. Alzheimer’s has no cure and the ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Researchers at Mayo Clinic have identified a genetic promoter of cancer that drives a major form of lung cancer. In a new ...

Endometrial cancer is a type of cancer that begins in the uterus. Endometrial cancer begins in the layer of cells that form the lining ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. – Mayo Clinic announced today that it has enrolled the first patient in a phase one study of a unfrozen oral capsule formulated ...

PHOENIX — Scientific investigations sometimes result in serendipitous discoveries which shift the investigations from one focus to another. In the case of researchers at Mayo ...