Research - November 2016 Archives

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Mayo Clinic is seeing patients with concerns about traveling to high altitudes at the recently established High Altitude and Harsh Environments Medical ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Researchers at Mayo Clinic have been documenting the rise and costs of physician burnout for more than a decade. Now, they are ...

PHOENIX — Researchers at Mayo Clinic, Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a biomaterial that has potential to protect patients ...

The eye’s outermost tissue, the cornea, is a bit more substantial than you might imagine. It’s made up of lots of types of cells and ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Research from Mayo Clinic included in the November issue of JAMA Neurology identifies a new biomarker for brain and spinal cord inflammation, allowing for faster ...

SAN FRANCISCO­ — A Mayo Clinic study is shedding light on why some rheumatoid arthritis patients respond poorly when treated with tumor necrosis factor inhibitors, ...

Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. Nearly 5½ million Americans have it. If effective medical treatments can’t be found, that ...

Since the first vaccine paved the way for the near-eradication of smallpox over 200 years ago, societies have looked to vaccines as a means ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. – Dementia with Lewy bodies is a progressive disease that causes hallucinations, decline in mental abilities, rigid muscles, slow movement and tremors. With ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. – Mayo Clinic nephrologists have uncovered a connection between first-time kidney stone formers and chronic kidney disease. In a paper published today in ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A collaboration of 32 researchers in seven countries, led by scientists at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Florida, has found a genetic mutation ...

Only one resource in North America offers complete disease information about a real population spanning half a century. Only one repository can be used to ...