Archive for June 2023

Age recommendations for when women should start yearly mammograms to screen for breast cancer vary. However, Mayo Clinic health care professionals have been firm for more than a decade that women should start breast cancer screening at age 40. Starting mammograms early is especially important non-Hispanic Black women, who have higher rates of breast cancer…

Try This Using Your Spirituality for Well Being Did you know that your own, unique spirituality holds important hints about how you can enhance your well-being? Hear some new ideas and experience several spiritual practices that will increase gratitude and mindfulness and help you to hold onto the good things in your life. Tags: Cancer,…

It’s a common concern among men who are diagnosed with testicular cancer. Will I be able to have children in the future? So what are the effects of testicular cancer and its treatment on fertility? Dr. Bradley Leibovich, a urologic oncologist at Mayo Clinic, says it’s one of the top questions he hears from men…

Building upon a Platform of Immune Tolerance in Epidermolysis Bullosa, 2023 This presentation was done for the Midwest Rare Disease speaker series on May 2nd, 2023. This speaker series is a collaborate effort by Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine and Medical College of Wisconsin’s Mellowes Center for Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine. Christen Ebens…

A new study reveals health concerns about the sugar substitute sucralose so alarming that researchers said people should stop eating it and the government should regulate it more. Sucralose is sold under the brand name Splenda and is also used as an ingredient in packaged foods and beverages. The findings were published this week in…

Lymph nodes are clusters of cells that help your body filter out and destroy bacteria, viruses, and other harmful things that can make you sick. You know the lump you feel on one or both sides of your neck when you get a cold? Those are lymph nodes hard at work. It’s rare, but they…

On this #AsktheMayoMom video Q&A, pediatrician and host Dr. Angela Mattke is joined by pediatric dermatologist Dr. Megha Tollefson for a discussion on vascular anomalies in children. From Mayo Clinic to your inbox, sign-up for free: https://mayocl.in/3e71zfi Visit Mayo Clinic: https://mayocl.in/2COVmlm Like Mayo Clinic on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MayoClinic/ Follow Mayo Clinic on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mayoclinic/ Follow Mayo Clinic on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MayoClinic

On this #AsktheMayoMom video Q&A, pediatrician and host Dr. Angela Mattke is joined by pediatric neuro-oncologist Dr. Jonathan Schwartz for a discussion on types of brain tumors in children. From Mayo Clinic to your inbox, sign-up for free: https://mayocl.in/3e71zfi Visit Mayo Clinic: https://mayocl.in/2COVmlm Like Mayo Clinic on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MayoClinic/ Follow Mayo Clinic on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mayoclinic/…