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 [...]
From leukemia to sickle cell anemia, bone marrow transplants are used to treat many diseases. Mayo Clinic Dr. Shakila Khan talks about one little girl’s battle with aplastic anemia.
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Bone Marrow Transplants
Sometimes what’s old becomes new again. It happens in music, fashion, even eye care. Optometrists at Mayo Clinic are using a type of lens originally developed in the late 1800s for some people who can’t wear normal contacts. They’re called scleral lenses and they’re helping many folks with bad vision see.
