Research - November 2016 Archives

A breast cancer screening tool developed at Mayo Clinic may benefit women with dense breasts. It's called molecular breast imaging (MBI), and research shows the ...

Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most feared illnesses. Besides being the sixth leading cause of death, it’s the most common cause of dementia – often robbing ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic’s 3-D anatomic modeling program started with a realization that surgeons needed a new way to look at human anatomy ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Myocarditis, an assortment of heart disorders often caused by infection and inflammation, is known to be difficult to diagnose and treat. But ...

Recently, the World Health Organization declared Zika virus a  highly significant long-term problem rather than a global health emergency crisis. Dr. Gregory Poland, director of Mayo ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. – Walking is a milestone in development for toddlers, but it’s actually only one part of the complex cognitive task known as gait ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Biomedical researchers in Minnesota will be able to use some of the latest high tech research tools thanks to the latest infrastructure ...

Are you a journalist looking for story ideas, contacts, expert interviews? Check out research news on Discovery's Edge. Healing open wounds with regenerative medicine ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Researchers at Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine have discovered a potential cause and a promising new treatment for inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors, ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Approximately 10 percent of newborns require help breathing after birth, and 1 in 1,000 newborns require more intensive resuscitation measures. These infrequent, ...

Listen: Mayo Clinic Radio 11/19/16 On Mayo Clinic Radio, Dr. Kathy Hudson, deputy director for science, outreach, and policy at the National Institutes ...

Precision medicine is a new approach to disease treatment and prevention based on people’s individual differences in genes, environment and lifestyle. On the next Mayo ...