October 30, 2009 – 12:27 pm
Every year about 250-thousand women in the United States are diagnosed with breast cancer. Most of these women were not known to be at high risk. That’s why researchers at Mayo Clinic are looking for better ways to identify who’s at increased risk in order to enhance early detection and, perhaps some day, help these [...]
September 18, 2009 – 1:14 pm
Marathons, 10-K’s, bike rides and telethons. Events to raise money for diseases like cancer seem to happen all the time. Many of these fund raisers really do make a difference in the race to find a cure. More on how one marathon is raising money to help researchers learn about cancer genes so they can [...]
September 4, 2009 – 6:20 pm
Dr. S. Vincent Rajkumar, Mayo Clinic hematologist, discusses the first systematic study to determine association of Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance (MGUS) with all diseases in 17,398 patients, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
Here is a link to the article: http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/…
Click on the following link to hear Dr. Rajkumar talk about this study.
Dr. Rajkumar MGUS Study
September 4, 2009 – 5:56 pm
Dr. Barbara Yawn, Director of Research at Olmsted Medical Center, provides an overview of her study on Health Care Utilization and the Cost Burden of Herpes Zoster, published in the September 2009 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. The full text of the article is available at http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/content/84/9/787.full
Click on the link below to listen to Dr. [...]
August 24, 2009 – 7:21 pm
Memory loss, personality changes, a shrinking ability to do daily tasks. It’s not easy to watch a loved one suffer from dementia. It’s also not easy at times for doctors to know exactly what kind of dementia a person may have. That’s because there’s not been a test that can differentiate between, say, Alzheimer’s disease [...]
