Research - September 2019 Archives

Scoliosis is a sideways curvature of the spine that occurs most often during the growth spurt just before puberty. Most cases of scoliosis are mild, ...

More than one-third of the 15.7 million Americans with moderate or advanced chronic kidney disease use dietary or herbal supplements, reports new research from Mayo ...

In a new study, researchers on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus found that exposing female mice to the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) increased their risk of myocarditis, a rare inflammatory heart disease ...

Annually, more than 21,000 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Many ovarian cancer patients are diagnosed at a later stage of disease due in part ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Fibromyalgia, a disorder that causes pain, fatigue, chronic headaches and a host of other symptoms, is often misunderstood by patients, families and health care providers. ...

Four hundred: That’s the number of U.S. patients who die each year awaiting a lung transplant, or are removed from the wait list when they become ...

In a recent study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care, a research team led by Andrew Limper, M.D., a pulmonology and ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a potentially serious infectious disease that mainly affects the lungs. The bacteria that cause TB are spread from one person to another through tiny ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Though research shows that medication-assisted treatment can help people who are addicted to opioids, the three drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic physicians will present findings at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology annual meeting Sept. 15–18 in Chicago. Key Mayo Clinic-led studies ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. ­— When a coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) patient needs a second surgery because of recurrent chest pain, more often than not it's a percutaneous ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a lethal malignancy that most often is resistant to chemotherapy. Researchers have been searching for ways to increase the sensitivity of ...