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Joline E. Brandenburg, M.D., devotes her workday at Mayo Clinic to treating children with cerebral palsy. At home, she cares for her 11-year-old daughter, who ...

Aging is a natural and inevitable part of the lifespan; it’s also at the nexus of many chronic diseases including cancer, diabetes, dementia, and more. The emerging field of geroscience is ...

As we age and forget why we walked into a particular room, we may joke about our incipient "Alzheimer's." But Alzheimer's disease is no joke. It's a ...

Clinical trials are the part of research that determines whether a medical intervention should be moved, or "translated," from the lab to routine patient care. ...

In the quest to turn laboratory breakthroughs into new cancer treatments, much can be lost in translation. Only a fraction of “eureka moments” result in ...

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 the winter of 2014, staff of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit had a serious problem. Researchers at Mayo Clinic Hospital — Rochester, Saint Marys ...

The Division of Engineering arose at Mayo Clinic pretty much the first time a clinician needed an instrument and didn't have time to order it ...

Surgeon Heidi Nelson, M.D. wanted advice on making surgery safer. Not for patients this time, but for surgeons and their teams. "We can't manage what we ...

Fishing them out of a drink, you may not see the benefit of fruit flies. But they are a vital scientific model, and at Mayo ...