Expanding the donor pool – hepatitis C no longer a barrier to transplant
With a goal of shortening the wait time for a solid organ transplant, Mayo Clinic is leading efforts to expand the donor pool by making more organs suitable for transplantation. Organs from deceased ...
23 Aug 202134min
Back to school: reading, writing and pandemic
COVID-19 and especially the spread of the delta variant have created a whole new set of challenges this year. And now, children across the US are returning to school during this same time, creating ma...
20 Aug 202140min
Breaking down the booster dose terminology for COVID-19 vaccines
COVID-19 booster vaccines are on the horizon.in the news and "A vaccine booster dose is generally an additional dose above and beyond the primary series needed to achieve protective immunity," says Dr...
18 Aug 202136min
Cancer caregivers need care themselves
When someone is diagnosed with cancer, partners, family members and friends often step into the role of being a cancer caregiver. They are rarely trained for the job of caregiving, but often become in...
16 Aug 202141min
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
