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“People were still getting fractures.” That was the problem faced by Sundeep Khosla, M.D., Mayo Clinic endocrinologist and osteoporosis expert. He and his team were ...

Crohn's-related wounds may have met their match in a pioneering regenerative therapy thanks to truly collaborative team science In the world of medical trials, a two-year ...

May 26 In his 2015 state of the union message President Obama announced his Precision Medicine Initiative, an ambitious plan to harness our knowledge ...

Mayo Clinic’s president and CEO, John Noseworthy, M.D., has been honored by Research!America, the national advocacy organization for medical research. On behalf of Mayo Clinic, ...

Thomas Hoffman of Spearfish, S.D., was 56, weighed 235, and had been diagnosed with prediabetes when he began to diet. As the pounds ...

The reality of magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, machines is one of size — large, both in cost and physical space. This, then, restricts access ...

Like a case of breaking and entering, when multiple sclerosis attacks the central nervous system, it leaves an evidence trail of theft ...

Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Research Group will begin work on developing a vaccine to protect against the Zika virus, according to Mayo vaccinologist Gregory Poland, M.D. ...

As a species, we have a love-hate relationship with microbes. For centuries, we didn’t even know they existed. Then came the microscope and Louis Pasteur’s ...

Inventors and their breakthrough ideas are popular cultural touchstones in America’s history: Benjamin Franklin’s lightning rod; Thomas Edison’s light bulb; the Wright brothers’ first byplane; ...