Science Saturday: An anti-cancer establishment
In Shakespeare's time, medicine was based on the Hippocratic theory of the four bodily humors, or fluids. Good health was all about keeping these humors in balance, and it was understood that everyone was different. In a sense, today's individualized medical approaches are cycling back to the understanding that we're all unique. Hepatobiliary tumors -- [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - June 7, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news
Science Saturday: Sleuthing out the fingerprint of disease
In the winter of 2014, staff of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit had a serious problem. Researchers at Mayo Clinic Hospital -- Rochester, Saint Marys Campus noted a rise in the number of resistant bacteria in the unit. The culprit was methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, more commonly known as MRSA. Such incidents have become increasingly common in [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - May 24, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news
Science Saturday: New genetic test classifies lymphomas
The current diagnostic tools in a pathologist's arsenal sometimes cannot provide a clear distinction between primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma (one of the few lymphomas more common in younger women) and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, the most common type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma overall. This may occasionally give rise to diagnostic inaccuracy in routine practice and could leave [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - April 26, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news
Science Saturday: Short telomere syndromes are like frayed shoe laces
Unlike gray hair, one of the most significant signs of aging is invisible to the naked eye. Deep inside cells, at the tips of thread-like chromosomes, structures known as telomeres protect chromosomes from deterioration--a bit like the way caps at the ends of shoelaces prevent fraying. Telomeres naturally shorten as people age. But sometimes, an [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - April 19, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news
Science Saturday: A new era in colon cancer detection and treatment
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, a time to focus on one of the most common and preventable forms of cancer. Mayo Clinic is applying a new genomic lens to colorectal and other cancers to identify which are the types that run in families. The answer to that could open new treatment options and also [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - March 22, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic researchers identify potential new therapy for liver diseases
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Drug therapy may effectively treat a potentially life-threatening condition associated with cirrhosis and other chronic liver diseases, according to a new study by Mayo Clinic researchers. The study was posted in March on Gastroenterology, the online journal of the American Gastroenterological Association. Print publication is scheduled for July. While therapies have been [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - March 21, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news
Science Saturday: A new era in migraine care
For the millions of people who have migraine, the search for pain relief can feel like a nightmare game. "Spin the wheel, see what drug you land on, and just try it. That's the trial-and-error approach that we have had to use in migraine," says?David Dodick, M.D., a neurologist at Mayo Clinic's Arizona campus. The [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - March 15, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news
Heart procedure for AFib better than drug therapy for reducing episodes
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Atrial fibrillation is a common arrhythmia that affects an estimated 30 million people worldwide. New research shows that catheter ablation, a common cardiovascular procedure, appears no more effective than drug therapy to prevent strokes, deaths and other complications in patients with atrial fibrillation. But patients who receive catheter ablation experience much greater [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - March 14, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news
Big data adds clarity, certainty to clinical trial outcomes for AFib
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- The 33 million people with atrial fibrillation worldwide not only suffer from bothersome symptoms, but also face a fivefold increased risk of stroke and a twofold increased risk of death. Research teams led by Mayo Clinic published three connected studies on Friday, March 15, clarifying the benefits of catheter ablation versus rate- [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - March 14, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic study shows sleep apnea may be tied to increased Alzheimer's biomarker in brain
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- People who stop breathing during sleep may have higher accumulations of the toxic protein tau, a biological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, in part of the brain that manages memory, navigation and perception of time. A preliminary Mayo Clinic study released Sunday, March 3, will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - March 3, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news
Science Saturday: Leading the charge in regenerative medicine
Regenerative medicine therapies aim to rebuild and restore health to patients challenged by chronic conditions and degenerative diseases. Despite advances in the field, much of the science is still in early research phases, meaning that many treatments haven't been proven safe and effective for humans as standard-of-care therapies yet. Because the scientific process is long, [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - March 1, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news
Research finds ethnoracial differences in Alzheimer's disease
JACKSONVILLE, Fla -- A team of Mayo Clinic researchers found Hispanic-American patients with Alzheimer's tend to survive significantly longer with the disease than other ethnoracial groups, according to a study in Alzheimer's& Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association. Hispanic-Americans were found to live an average of 12 years with the disease from the [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - February 18, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news
Science Saturday: Bitten by the virotherapy bug
Every day more than 1,600 Americans die from cancer. Most?of them have cancer that can't be cured with traditional?methods -- surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. The father?of?Evanthia Galanis, M.D., was one of them. He died in the late 1990s from?melanoma?when his daughter was?a junior faculty member at?Mayo Clinic. "My father would have better treatment options today," [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - February 16, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news
Science Saturday: Brain organoids and neuropsychiatric disorders
Mayo Clinic and Yale University collaborated in a study published in Science to create a new model for studying neuropsychiatric disorders in early human brain development. This unique collaboration brought together Mayo Clinic's team-based, patient-centered research with Yale researchers to discover and analyze the genetic mechanisms that may cause these disorders. The Mayo Clinic team, [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - January 19, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic discovers biological markers that could guide treatment for prostate cancer
ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Genetic alterations in low-risk prostate cancer diagnosed by needle biopsy can identify men that harbor higher-risk cancer in their prostate glands, Mayo Clinic has discovered. The research, which is published in the January edition of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, found for the first time that genetic alterations associated with intermediate- and high-risk prostate [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - January 3, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news
