Daily Archives: May 16, 2008

Art at the Bedside

If you’ve ever been in the hospital, you know that it’s usually not much fun. Doctors at Mayo Clinic are working on making the hospital experience easier for patients and their families by using art.

New Device for Lung Biopsy

You’re getting a check-up and your doctor tells you there’s a tiny spot in your lung. It could be cancer. To find out, your options have been to wait and see if it grows or go to surgery for a biopsy. Now there’s another option developed at Mayo Clinic.

New Pancreatitis Treatment

Your pancreas is an organ that does two things: it secretes enzymes that help you digest food, and it creates insulin to regulate blood sugar. But sometimes gall stones, medications or alcohol can cause pancreatitis.

Erectile Dysfunction Drugs

If you’ve ever watched a prime time TV show you’ve seen the ads. Commercials promoting Viagra, Levitra or Cialis – erectile dysfunction drugs. Those medications have helped millions of men have a normal sex life. But how do you know which of those medications, if any, are right for you?

Mayo Clinic Musculoskeletal Center Opens

 

 

If arthritis pain in your knee has you going in to see the doctor, the last thing you want is to have to run all over the place getting checked out.  That’s exactly the thinking that went into the new Mayo Clinic W. Hall Wendel, Jr. Musculoskeletal Center. The center, named after W. Hall Wendel, [...]