Today’s Minneapolis Star Tribune has a story about a 20-month old boy from Fargo, N. Dakota who was airlifted to Mayo Clinic because of severe heart failure resulting from dilated cardiomyopathy. He was listed for a heart transplant.
Organ donation can be like a roll of the dice. Luck changes suddenly.
It seemed luck was not with [...]
Nature covers Mayo Clinic research released last week in its current on-line front page:
The infectious romp that the measles virus takes through the body doesn’t need to involve the airways, as was previously thought. Instead, the virus prefers to replicate in immune cells. This finding potentially paves the way for new and better cancer treatments [...]
Researchers at Mayo Clinic have found that unmarried women living in rural areas have lower self-rated health status than their married counterparts. This lower health status often includes greater instances of self-assessed feelings of depression. James Rohrer, Ph.D., of Mayo Clinic’s department of Family Medicine is the lead author of the study. Dr. Rohrer discusses the connection between unmarried [...]
Leptin, a hormone that regulates appetite, appears to be associated with cardiovascular disease, say researchers at Mayo Clinic. According to findings published in Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine, adults with high levels of leptin in their blood appear to have a higher risk for developing cardiovascular disease than do those with lower leptin levels.
Mayo Clinic [...]
Researchers at Mayo Clinic, with their national and international collaborators, have discovered how a class of agents now in testing to treat Alzheimer’s disease work, and say they may open up an avenue of drug discovery for this disease and others.
In the June 12 issue of Nature, they report that agents known as gamma-secretase modulators [...]
According to results of a Mayo Clinic study published June 4 in JAMA, which analyzed results from more than 400 randomized clinical trials, less than one out of five included patient-important outcomes as primary endpoints. Victor Montori, M.D., a Mayo Clinic endocrinologist and the lead author of the study conducted at Mayo’s Knowledge and [...]
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