Research - June 2019 Archives

Computed tomography (CT), which uses specialized X-rays to create images of areas inside the body, has revolutionized medicine in the nearly 50 years since it became ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Sometimes a physician thinks the outcome of a patient's treatment is a great success. Sometimes that patient thinks it was a flop. That disconnect may go unexpressed by ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Micronutrient deficiencies, including vitamins B12 and D, as well as folate, iron, zinc and copper, are common in adults at the time of diagnosis ...

Mayo Clinic Ventures commercializes technologies to benefit patients while generating revenue to support clinical practice, research and education. Thanks in part to licensing and partnership ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Despite improvements in median and short-term survival rates for patients with glioblastoma, the most common brain tumor in adults, the percentage of patients achieving ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A new study by Mayo Clinic researchers may have broad implications for treatment of patients with predominantly benign thyroid disease and newly treated hypothyroidism. The study, ...

Fruit flies are an all too common annoyance, but they're also a powerful new tool for researchers at Mayo Clinic in their quest to make ...

Listen: Mayo Clinic Radio 6/15/19 On the Mayo Clinic Radio podcast, Dr. Leonard Berry, a health care delivery expert and author of "Management Lessons From Mayo ...

NEW ORLEANS — Mayo Clinic's Todd and Karen Wanek Family Program for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and Ochsner Hospital for Children are collaborating within a ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — A statewide bipartisan initiative is transforming health care from a focus on treating disease to one of tapping the body's ability to ...

Linda Kent has been living with multiple myeloma for seven years. After having only a partial response to the treatment she was on when she lived in Idaho, she moved to Florida and began a different treatment regimen at Mayo Clinic. Today, Linda is more hopeful than ever as she begins new treatment as part of a Mayo clinical trial.

Some of the most critical advances in medicine happen when patients and health care providers begin to ask questions. The patient is experiencing new or ...