For thousands of years, practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine have used the herb ginseng to increase energy, endurance and brain power. Research shows that, in many cases, the herb may help. Researchers at Mayo Clinic led a study on ginseng and found it may also help fight fatigue in patients with cancer [...]
Researchers at Mayo Clinic have developed technology that uses sound waves to see if a patient’s liver is harder than it should be — if it’s developing fibrosis. It’s called Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE), and it offers a noninvasive alternative to liver biopsy.
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Hepatitis C is a viral infection that affects the liver. In fact, Hepatitis C plays a role in about 40 percent of all liver transplants. In the United States alone, it’s thought that about four million people carry the disease. And as we hear from Mayo Clinic Dr. Hugo Vargas, half of those people may [...]
If you’re trying to drop a few pounds and get healthy, what’s one of the first things you need to do? Get some exercise. But that’s not easy if you go to work every day and sit behind a desk for eight hours. Dr. Jeff Fidler, a Mayo Clinic Radiologist is trying to [...]
