Research - May 2016 Archives

The National Institutes of Health is spearheading the effort and for the past year has been organizing the foundational elements. Today, NIH formally announced ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — A Mayo Clinic-led study found that obese teenagers have lower levels of a hormone potentially tied to weight management than teens of ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Each year, about 200 to 400 Americans develop pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma, a rare form of pancreatic cancer that has no effective ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Surrogate endpoints used to support the majority of new cancer drugs approved in the U.S. often lack formal study, according to the authors ...

Patricia Thomas was trying to keep up her spirits. Her cough was not improving. Already thin, she was not gaining weight and the night ...

SAN DIEGO — In roughly one-third of pancreatic cancer patients, tumors have grown around the pancreas to encompass critical blood vessels. Conventional wisdom has long ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — It might sound like a riddle: What do you get when you combine one online contest, two patients, five dogs and 654 ...

Patients with metastatic bladder cancer have few treatment options after failure of chemotherapy until now. In early May, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic is launching a unique effort to promote collaborations among promising Israeli startup companies and Mayo Clinic innovators. The Mayo Clinic ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Coprophagia, eating one’s feces, is common in animals but rarely seen in humans. Mayo Clinic researchers reviewed the cases of a dozen ...

Former President Jimmy Carter made news around the world a few months ago when, after a battle with potentially deadly melanoma, he revealed he was ...

Like a case of breaking and entering, when multiple sclerosis attacks the central nervous system, it leaves an evidence trail of theft ...