COVID-19 metrics improve, expert still urges caution
Hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID-19 continue to decline, leading to some optimism about the way forward from pandemic to endemic. But experts still urge caution as the omicron subvariant, name...
30 Mar 202235min
Diagnostic testing, precision medicine and what it means for patients
Precision medicine aims to customize health care by tailoring medications and treatments to each patient. An important step in being able to personalize treatments is diagnostic testing. Mayo Clinic B...
28 Mar 202214min
Early intervention can help kids with cerebral palsy
Children with cerebral palsy may require lifelong care from a medical care team, but early intervention and treatments can improve function. Cerebral palsy is a group of disorders that affect movemen...
25 Mar 202236min
Colorectal cancer on the rise in younger adults
Every March, Mayo Clinic joins the effort to raise awareness of colorectal cancer, which are cancers that develop in the colon and the rectum. While regular colonoscopies and lower rates of smoking h...
22 Mar 202223min
Ask the Mayo Mom: Managing sickle cell disease in children and teens
Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders. Red blood cells are usually round and flexible, so they move easily through blood vessels. With sickle cell disease, some red bloo...
18 Mar 202231min
COVID-19 update
Last week marked two years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic. While infection rates and hospitalizations in the U.S. continue to decline, there are some areas of c...
16 Mar 202229min
Advances in treating multiple myeloma help extend quality of life for patients
Multiple myeloma is a cancer that forms in a type of white blood cell called a plasma cell. Healthy plasma cells help the body fight infections by making antibodies that recognize and attack germs. I...
14 Mar 202227min
Living donor climbs Mount Kilimanjaro on World Kidney Day
Mayo Clinic living donor Mike Peshut is one of 22 kidney donors who will climb Mount Kilimanjaro with a group called Kidney Donor Athletes. The goal of the One Kidney Climb is to reach the summit on W...
10 Mar 202217min
