Research - October 2018 Archives

ROCHESTER Minn. — Rose geranium oil may help to ease the symptoms of nasal vestibulitis, a common and painful nasal condition linked to cancer ...

While treatable, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains the third leading cause of death in the U.S., according to the American Lung Association. COPD is ...

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time to reflect on new, individualized approaches to detecting and treating a cancer that affects 1 in 8 ...

SAN ANTONIO — When it comes to radiation therapy to treat brain cancer, hippocampal-avoidance whole-brain radiotherapy in conjunction with the drug ...

Metabolomics—the study of tiny molecules in the human body left behind by diseases and other processes—was an emerging scientific field in the 1990s when Mayo ...

Genes don't change, but how they are used by the body can.  That shift in use (which is called epigenetics) can mean the difference between ...

ROCHESTER Minn. — Researchers at Mayo Clinic have identified three specific gene types that account for a known two-to-three-fold increase in myeloma diagnoses among ...

Treating breast cancer has long involved addressing two problems: the elimination of cancer cells from the tumor and potential disease recurrence. The key may be ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — An international team of researchers led by Konstantinos Lazaridis, M.D., a Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist, has developed a new tool to help ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Mayo Clinic is the first cancer center in Northeast Florida to offer chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy (CAR T-cell therapy) for ...

Mayo Clinic endocrinologist and researcher Victor Montori, M.D., is leading a charge that he says can improve how patients everywhere are cared for. ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the HPV vaccine for people 27 - 45. "This is hugely positive for the health of ...