Mayo Clinic
Researchers provide atomic view of a histone chaperone
Mayo Clinic researchers have gained insights into the function of a member of a family of specialized proteins called histone chaperones. Using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography, they ...
Mar 01, 2012 |
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Moving beyond embryonic stem cells: Encouragement on the horizon
For nearly two decades, the medical world and the American public have grappled with the lightning-rod topic of stem cells, in particular the controversy surrounding cells from human embryos. But when researchers four years ...
Jul 05, 2011 |
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Cost of heart drugs makes patients skip pills, putting themselves at risk
For more than 5 million Americans with heart failure, a critical step to better health is taking the medications they're prescribed. But many patients fail to do so, putting themselves at greater risk of hospitalization and ...
Mar 29, 2011 |
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Mayo Clinic researchers tie Parkinson's drugs to impulse control problems
Mayo Clinic researchers found that dopamine agonists used in treating Parkinson's disease result in impulse control disorders in as many as 22 percent of patients.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 24, 2011 |
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Researchers find cardiac pacing helps epilepsy patients with ictal asystole
Mayo Clinic researchers have found that cardiac pacing may help epilepsy patients with seizure-related falls due to ictal asystole, an unusual condition in which the heart stops beating during an epileptic seizure. The study ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Smoking abstinence found more effective with residential treatment
In the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, researchers report that residential treatment for tobacco dependence among heavy smokers greatly improves the odds of abstinence at six months compared with standard outpatient treatm ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Policies to reduce medical residents' fatigue may compromise quality of training
Recent Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) limits aimed to enhance patient safety may compromise the quality of doctors' training, according to a study by Mayo Clinic researchers published in the ...
Mar 01, 2011 |
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Researchers confirm value of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest
Mayo Clinic researchers confirmed that patients who receive therapeutic hypothermia after resuscitation from cardiac arrest have favorable chances of surviving the event and recovering good functional status. In therapeutic ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 18, 2011 |
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Researchers pinpoint how one cancer gene functions
For several decades, researchers have been linking genetic mutations to diseases ranging from cancer to developmental abnormalities. What hasn't been clear, however, is how the body's genome sustains such destructive glitches ...
Feb 02, 2011 |
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New study alters long-held beliefs about shingles
For decades, medical wisdom about shingles has been that it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The commonly-held belief is that patients are protected from a recurrence of the herpes zoster virus, which causes shingles, after ...
Feb 01, 2011 |
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Feast or famine: Researchers identify leptin receptor's sidekick as a target for appetite regulation
A study by researchers at Mayo Clinic's campus in Florida and Washington University School of Medicine adds a new twist to the body of evidence suggesting human obesity is due in part to genetic factors. While studying hormone receptors in laboratory m ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 11, 2011 |
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Researchers describe measles viral protein movement
Mayo Clinic researchers have shown that proteins on the surface of a cell twist a viral protein into position, allowing the virus to start infection and cause disease, all in a movement as graceful as a ballroom dance. The ...
Jan 09, 2011 |
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Mayo Clinic determines lifetime risk of adult rheumatoid arthritis
Mayo Clinic researchers have determined the lifetime risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis and six other autoimmune rheumatic diseases for both men and women. The findings appear online in Arthritis and Rheumatism.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 05, 2011 |
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Advancements in fertility preservation provide oncology patients new options
Many young people who've just learned that they have cancer also are told that the therapies that may save their lives could rob them of their ability ever to have children. Infertility caused by chemotherapy and radiation ...
Jan 03, 2011 |
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Researchers find gene that protects against dementia in high-risk individuals
Neuroscientists had assumed that a mutation in the progranulin gene, which makes the progranulin protein and supports brain neurons, was sufficient to produce a kind of dementia known as frontotemporal lobar degeneration ...
Dec 22, 2010 |
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