Kick your COVID-19 bad habits
For more than a year, COVID-19 has forced people to depart from their normal routines. Physical isolation, working from home, and added stress and anxiety about a deadly coronavirus have led some peop...
13 Aug 202122min
It's like a Code Red hospital alert
An overwhelming surge of COVID-19 cases is underway in the U.S. As the delta variant continues to spread, the lambda variant is showing up, and some people are refusing to be vaccinated for COVID-19 ...
11 Aug 202144min
How Mayo hopes to slam the door when COVID-19 comes knocking
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought public awareness to vaccines and how vaccines work. A vaccine is any agent that causes the immune system to remember a specific disease-causing entity, thereby preven...
9 Aug 202124min
Overtreating an underactive thyroid
The thyroid gland creates and produces hormones that play a role in many systems throughout the body. When your thyroid makes too much or too little of these important hormones, it’s called a thyroid ...
9 Aug 202126min
The COVID-19 delta variant has changed everything
A fourth COVID-19 surge is blanketing the U.S., and the delta variant is the culprit. "Where did this delta variant come from? It came from unvaccinated people getting infected in large numbers allowi...
4 Aug 202135min
Who should be screened for lung cancer?
World Lung Cancer Day was recognized on August 1, to raise awareness about the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Lung cancer accounts for 12% of new cancer cases annually in the U.S., and more...
2 Aug 202129min
Managing asthma in children
In childhood asthma, the lungs and airways become easily inflamed when exposed to certain triggers, such as inhaling pollen or catching a cold or other respiratory infection. Childhood asthma can caus...
30 Jul 202133min
Stopping the spiral of the COVID-19 variant
Transmission of the COVID-19 delta variant is increasing. "We're in this constant spiral, right now,” says Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research ...
28 Jul 202127min
