Tag Archives: medical research

National Research Study on Lung Cancer Prevention

January 11th, 2013 - 2:07 pm

Mayo Clinic in Rochester is a member of the Cancer Prevention Network (CPN) and is participating in a national research study on lung cancer prevention. You may be eligible to participate in this research study if you: are age 45–79 … Continue reading →

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Raymond Iezzi, Jr., M.D. Receives Visionary Award from Foundation Fighting Blindness

March 16th, 2012 - 1:08 pm

Congratulations to Raymond Iezzi, Jr., M.D.! Dr. Iezzi is being honored by the Foundation Fighting Blindness with the organization’s 2012 Visionary Award. Dr. Iezzi is a consultant in the Department of Ophthalmology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. He holds the academic … Continue reading →

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Mayo Research Teams Highlighted in Science

December 22nd, 2011 - 2:46 pm

Science, the general research journal published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has highlighted three Mayo Clinic research teams in its year-end issue, out today online. The editors chose Mayo’s recently published discovery on ridding the … Continue reading →

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“Minnesota is Taking on Diabetes. Come join us.”

October 8th, 2010 - 4:37 pm

“That’s what this is about,” said Dr. Bob Rizza this week as we discussed plans for the Decade of Discovery news briefing. His simple statement was both comprehensive and profound. People have since asked, “Which one? Type 1 or Type … Continue reading →

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Two new issues of Discovery’s Edge

July 27th, 2010 - 1:19 pm

As many of you know, Mayo’s research magazine, Discovery’s Edge, publishes online four times a year and the print edition publishes twice a year, winter and summer. So that means we have two different (mostly different) science mags going out … Continue reading →

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Discovery’s Edge — 2 issues at once

December 22nd, 2009 - 3:44 pm

We didn’t plan it this way, but because the print edition of Mayo’s research magazine appears twice a year and the online version is quarterly, we have the neat situation of publishing twice the number of science stories this season. … Continue reading →

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Rochester Epidemiology Project

December 4th, 2009 - 12:40 pm

The Rochester Epidemiology Project (aka one of Minnesota’s and the United States’ best, yet hardly noticed, medical resources) is trying to raise its visibility. What is the REP? Probably the largest and oldest  population-based medical consortium in the country. Researchers … Continue reading →

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Fall Issue – Discovery’s Edge

September 17th, 2009 - 2:13 pm

Four new features plus, from Mayo’s research magazine: Data Mining to Redesign Critical Care Services Using informatics, epidemiology, systems engineering and in-depth medical-record studies, this groundbreaking work is improving patient safety in ICUs and significantly cutting the cost of health … Continue reading →

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