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Mayo Clinic health care expert offers insight to U.S. Dept. of VA


Stephen Swensen, M.D., the Mayo Clinic Director of Quality, joined a group of national health care experts this week in Washington to advise the United States Department of Veteran Affairs on how to offer the next generation of health care … Continue reading

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Three Mayo Clinic Hospitals Named to 2010 Leapfrog Top Hospitals List


Today the Leapfrog Group announced its 2010 List of Top Hospitals which includes Mayo Clinic Hospitals in Arizona and Florida, along with Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minn. According to the announcement, only 65 hospitals were selected for this prestigious … Continue reading

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Mayo Clinic Responds to NCI’s Lung Cancer Trial Results Showing Mortality Benefit with Low-Dose CT


The National Cancer Institute released initial results of the National Lung Cancer Screening Trial (NLST), a randomized national trial including more than 53,000 current and former heavy smokers ages 55 to 74. The trial compared the effectiveness of two lung … Continue reading

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