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March is Women's History Month and in honor of International Women’s Day on March 8, Mayo Clinic honors and recognizes women's contributions in medicine and research. Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine is celebrating the inspirational women who are taking on incredible challenges and leading the way to cure, connect and transform health care. International […]
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Today, Google announced the creation of its first office in Minnesota, at Collider Coworking in the historic Conley-Maass-Downs building in downtown Rochester, Minnesota. This will provide a location to deepen the collaboration of Google's long-term strategic partnership with Mayo Clinic. In 2019, Mayo Clinic and Google announced a 10-year strategic partnership that would redefine how health care is […]
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Mayo Clinic doctors held a press conference in Rochester, Minnesota, on Wednesday to highlight the need to combat misinformation regarding the COVID-19 vaccines. Watch: Dr. Swift, Dr. Badley, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar discuss COVID-19 vaccines. Journalists: Broadcast-quality soundbites and B-roll are in the downloads at the end of the post. Please […]
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ROCHESTER, Minn. ― People across the nation will wear red on Friday, Feb. 7, joining the effort to raise awareness of heart disease and stroke as the most dangerous threats to a woman's health. Nationally, 1 in 3 women die from cardiovascular disease. National Wear Red Day takes place on the first Friday in February, […]
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The American College of Physicians has produced a guidance statement for colorectal cancer screening for patients who are at an average risk. This statement is based on a critical review of existing national guidelines. "Patients who are age 50 to 75 who are asymptomatic, and don't have prior precancerous polyps or a family history of colorectal cancer, are considered average risk," says Dr. Frank Sinicrope, […]
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Penicillin is a powerful antibiotic that has saved millions of lives since its discovery in 1928. Now, 90 years later, overuse of this and other antibiotics has led to antibiotic resistance. “The resistance that’s happening in bacteria due to inappropriate or unnecessary use of antibiotics has led to a global and national health threat,” says […]
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More than 45-percent of American men are infected with genital HPV, according to a recent study published in JAMA Oncology. The study also found the HPV vaccination rate for men at 10.7 percent. Dr. Gregory Poland, director of the Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group, calls HPV "is ubiquitous in our culture and environment" – and one […]
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The goals are lofty: Enhance the patient experience. Improve population health. Manage the total cost of care. The lineup of speakers is impressive (and lengthy): physicians, scientists, leaders in the health care field. And participants came from just down the block at Mayo Clinic to as far away as India, Sweden and Japan. All this […]
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ROCHESTER, Minn. — The science of health care delivery applies innovative science and data to evaluate the quality, safety and value of health care globally, and improve real-world experiences for patients. Health care experts from across the nation will gather in Rochester, Minnesota, Sept. 16-18, to discuss these tools and share best practices and new […]
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On Saturday, April 3rd, Medical Edge Weekend will visit with Dr. Charles Rosen and Dr. Dana Perry about organ transplants. April is National Organ Donation Month. Medical Edge Weekend 4-3-10
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