Research - November 2017 Archives

The test results can assist health care providers with treatment choices, improving patient care. ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic has launched a first-in-the-U.S. ...

There is no cure for Alzheimer's disease. But, over the past decade, researchers have learned a lot about factors that may contribute to the disease. ...

The Mayo Clinic Research News Roundup is written by Elizabeth Zimmermann Young for Advancing the Science. It includes brief summaries and links to research news ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic researchers have shown a link between which type of oral anticoagulant (blood-thinning medication) a patient takes to prevent a ...

A new director brings wisdom and passion to training bilingual physician-scientists. For Kendall Lee, M.D., Ph.D., being bilingual starts with language and extends to the ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — People sometimes joke that easy tasks are “not brain surgery.” But what happens when it actually is brain surgery? How old ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Neurologist Thomas Brott, M.D., the Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Professor of Neurosciences on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus, has been selected as the ...

Families living with Alzheimer's disease woke to devastating newspaper headlines recently: Another highly touted drug failed in clinical trials. Drugmaker Eli Lilly's EXPEDITION3 trial tested an ...

Approximately 3.4 million Americans and over 60 million people worldwide are living with epilepsy, a condition marked by recurrent seizures. “Epilepsy is one of the ...

Are some cases of Alzheimer's disease triggered by a form of diabetes in the brain? Perhaps they are, according to researchers. Mayo Clinic's campuses in ...

What makes some brain cancers so hard to treat? Researchers in the laboratory of Alfredo ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. – A phase 3 trial studying the effects of tolvaptan has found that the drug slowed the rate of decline in kidney function ...