Greetings, Readers of Advancing the Science! You may have noticed an increase in posts from the Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery in recent weeks. We plan to expand our reach and share practice-changing science via this new channel. Please let us know what you think of the new content (email the center). In the center we are focused on applying innovative science to evaluate the quality, safety and value of health care globally and improve experiences for patients. Our multidisciplinary teams are working tirelessly to build the evidence base and identify patient-centered solutions to health care’s most pressing challenges.
In 1983, when Moses Rodriguez, M.D., established a small research lab to study multiple sclerosis (MS) at ...
Chronic heartburn can cause esophageal cancer. But people who suffer from heartburn often don't get screened for cancer, and the results can be deadly. ...
Mayo Clinic physician and researcher Edith A. Perez, M.D. has been named to the Board of Directors ...
Doctors used to give their female patients hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after menopause believing that it had positive health benefits. However, data from a large clinical trial cast profound ...
Researchers and clinicians working with the Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery have observed that patients with diabetes with ...
Apply for a NIH-funded week-long “Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K)” fellowship and bridge the gap Within “Big Data,” there’s a multidimensional data ...
Mayo Clinic thoracic surgeon Mark S. Allen, M.D., has been elected president of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons ...
In an era of rising health care costs, and continuing efforts to improve value for patients nationwide, we have seen the rise of a number ...
Physicians have long known that people with rheumatoid arthritis and other rheumatic conditions such as lupus are more likely to die at younger ages than ...
“The best interest of the patient is the only interest to be considered, and in order that the sick may have the benefit of advancing ...
Early in the 20th century, a desperate group of patients began appearing at Mayo Clinic in the hope that the specialists there could keep them ...