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A Mayo Clinic study to be published in the Jan. 14, New England Journal of Medicine finds that prophylactic mastectomy, surgery that removes the breasts as a preventive measure, reduces the risk of breast cancer by approximately 90 percent for women at moderate to high risk for the disease.
A Mayo Clinic study published in Annals of Emergency Medicine finds electron-beam computed tomography, a type of CAT scan, quickly detects coronary artery calcification in emergency room patients with chest pain. If the scan shows no calcification, the patient is at low risk of having a heart attack.
It's happening in all sizes of businesses -- the workplace is becoming an important venue for employees to obtain information about how to stay healthy. That trend comes in part because companies are looking for ways to control healthcare costs by teaching good health habits.
Early diagnosis of glaucoma is important in preserving eyesight, a new Mayo Clinic study confirms. The study showed that if a person had eye damage from glaucoma at the time of their diagnosis, there was a 54 percent chance of becoming legally blind in at least one eye over a 20-year period despite treatment, and a 22 percent chance of becoming legally blind in both eyes.
A recent Mayo Clinic study has found that nearly one out of four people at higher risk for heart valve infection who have parts of their body pierced suffer from infection as a result of the piercing.
Mayo Clinic neurologists are using existing technology and an investigational drug to detect pre-symptomatic Parkinson's disease in at-risk people who have family members with Parkinson's disease, they reported in the July issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville scientists have shown that a specially created molecule injected into the belly of a rat can cross the nearly impassable blood-brain barrier and can stop the chemical reaction in the brain that the molecule was designed to impede.
1- heart patients still taking chest pain medications, 2- gamma knife surgery in brain disorders, 3- pain affects quality of life
A recent Mayo Clinic study in the journal Circulation finds that the dietary supplement L-arginine -- touted by the supplement industry as an enhancer for everything from athletic to sexual performance -- improves chest pain symptoms in patients with early heart disease.
A Mayo Clinic study has shown that 50 percent of a group of elderly patients with mild cognitive impairment who also have a significantly smaller hippocampus portion of the brain are likely to develop Alzheimer's disease as compared to nine percent of patients with a normal size hippocampus.
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