Mayo Clinic
hideMayo Clinic is a non-profit organization and internationally renowned group medical practice headquartered in Rochester, Minnesota. Its headquarters consist of the Mayo Medical School, the Mayo Graduate School, the Mayo College of Graduate Medical Education, and several other health science schools. Its research facilities are in Rochester, Minnesota, in addition to hospitals and clinics in Jacksonville, Florida, Scottsdale, Arizona, and Phoenix, Arizona. Mayo Clinic partners with a number of smaller clinics and hospitals in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, an organization known as the "Mayo Health System."
For historical reasons, the institution is called "Mayo Clinic," rather than "The Mayo Clinic" or "Mayo's Clinic." The clinic started as a single, small outpatient facility, and later became America's first integrated group practice, a model that is now standard in the United States.
Mayo Clinic pays medical doctors a fixed salary that is unaffected by patient volume. This practice is thought to decrease the monetary motivation to see patients in large numbers and increase the incentive to spend more time with individuals. Salaries are determined instead by the marketplace salaries for physicians in comparable large group practices.
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Brain disorder suggests common mechanism may underlie many neurodegenerative diseases
Jan 11, 2009 |
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A Mayo Clinic-led international consortium has found a mechanism that may help explain Parkinson's and other neurological disorders.
Simple finger device may help predict future heart attack
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Results of a Mayo Clinic study show that a simple, noninvasive finger sensor test is "highly predictive" of a major cardiac event, such as a heart attack or stroke, for people who are considered at low or moderate risk, according ...
Researchers find link between anesthesia exposure and learning disabilities in children
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Mayo Clinic researchers have found that children who require multiple surgeries under anesthesia during their first three years of life are at higher risk of developing learning disabilities later. Several studies have suggested ...
Improving brain processing speed helps memory
Feb 10, 2009 |
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Mayo Clinic researchers found that healthy, older adults who participated in a computer-based training program to improve the speed and accuracy of brain processing showed twice the improvement in certain aspects of memory, ...
Variants in gene on X chromosome associated with increased susceptibility to Alzheimer's
Jan 11, 2009 |
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Researchers at Mayo Clinic have discovered the first gender-linked susceptibility gene for late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Mayo Clinic backs new personal health record site
Apr 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Mayo Clinic has combined its medical expertise with Microsoft Corp.'s technology in a free Web site launching Tuesday that will let people store personal health and medical information.
Younger men with erectile dysfunction at double risk of heart disease
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Men who experience erectile dysfunction between the ages of 40 and 49 are twice as likely to develop heart disease than men without dysfunction, according to a new Mayo Clinic study.
Researchers find potential links between breast density and breast cancer risk
Dec 14, 2008 |
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Having dense breasts - areas that show up light on a mammogram - is strongly associated with increased breast cancer risk, but "why" remains to be answered. Now, by examining dense and non-dense tissue taken from the breasts ...
Advanced imaging technology improves spinal surgery outcome
Dec 10, 2008 |
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Using a three-dimensional (3D) image-guided system to help place screws in the spines of patients results in safe and accurate surgery with a decrease in the number of misplaced screws, and subsequent injuries, seen in more ...
Drug combination improves or stabilizes disease for relapsed multiple myeloma patients
Dec 09, 2008 |
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Mayo Clinic researchers have found that a new combination of medications designed to maximize immune functions improved or stabilized multiple myeloma for 76 percent of patients who had relapsed after previous treatment.
Study finds it generally safe to withdraw anti-seizure medication in children with epilepsy
Dec 07, 2008 |
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A new Mayo Clinic study found that it is generally safe to withdraw anti-seizure medications in children with epilepsy who have achieved seizure-freedom while on the medication. Researchers found that these children were ...
Researchers identify dangerous 'two-faced' protein crucial to breast cancer spread and growth
Nov 17, 2008 |
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Two critical properties of cancer cells are their ability to divide without restraint and to spread away from the primary tumor to establish new tumor sites. Now, researchers from the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida have found ...
Researchers find predictive tests and early treatment delay progression of blood cell cancer
Nov 06, 2008 |
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Mayo Clinic researchers say they have moved closer to their goal of providing personalized care for a common blood cell cancer. They have found that the use of predictive biomarkers along with two targeted treatments significantly ...
Mayo Clinic study finds risk of sudden cardiac death highest early after attack
Nov 04, 2008 |
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People who survive a heart attack face the greatest risk of dying from sudden cardiac death (SCD) during the first month after leaving the hospital, according to a long-term community study by Mayo Clinic researchers of nearly ...
Mayo Clinic's new imaging technology accurately identifies a broad spectrum of liver disease
Nov 01, 2008 |
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A new study shows that an imaging technology developed by Mayo Clinic researchers can identify liver fibrosis with high accuracy and help eliminate the need for liver biopsies. Liver fibrosis is a common condition that can ...
