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The immune system exists to fight infection, but it must also know when to rest once that infection is controlled. It’s a balancing act examined in a ...

In a new study, researchers on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus found that exposing female mice to the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) increased their risk of myocarditis, a rare inflammatory ...

It is a situation many parents will recognize: a wayward child is throwing a tantrum in a store. The parent takes the child by the ...

Membranous nephropathy is a disease leading, if untreated, to the need for kidney transplant. However current therapies have their own problems, says Mayo Clinic nephrologist ...

Medical professionals commonly recommend putting ice on a break or sprain. Cooling acts as a ‘slow motion’ button for our cells, blocking inflammation and damage by slowing ...

Balancing the risks and benefits of disease screening can be a tricky business. For lung cancer, screening is recommended for a specific group: people age ...

Mayo Clinic is collaborating with Regeneron, a leading science and technology company, to generate whole exome sequencing and genotype data of 100,000 DNA samples from consented participants ...

A few years ago, a team of brain cancer researchers ventured a hypothesis. The team wondered whether a particular protein, known as Yes-Associated Protein, or YAP, which ...

Want to get healthy? Try diet and exercise. Americans age 50 and younger — especially people with obesity — hear this recommendation frequently. But for older individuals healthy ...

Despite efforts by researchers, experts are still unable to determine a genetic basis of disease for many people diagnosed. One reason: “camouflaged” genes. These are hidden chromosome regions ...