Advancing Rare Disease Breakthroughs at Mayo Clinic

Advancing Rare Disease Breakthroughs at Mayo Clinic SScientists and clinicians at the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine are making notable progress in rare disease diagnostics and treatments. The pioneers in the field, including Margot Cousin, PhD, and Filippo Pinto e Vairo, MD, PhD, are harnessing emerging technologies, individualized therapies and artificial intelligence (AI) to…

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Mayo Clinic Minute: Do tweens need a skincare routine?

Filming and uploading each step of your daytime or nighttime skincare routine is all the rage on social media. And it’s especially popular among young girls. But do 8- to 12-year-olds really need to worry about anti-aging serums, expensive cleansers and moisturizers? In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Dawn Davis, a Mayo Clinic pediatric dermatologist,…

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Cancer is tough. Evelyn Owens is tougher

Evelyn celebrating her last day of proton beam therapy at Mayo Clinic Evelyn Owens’ brave battle with cancer is capturing the hearts of everyone around her. At only 6 years old, Evelyn was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare form of childhood cancer. Evelyn’s family traveled from their home in Oregon to Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer…

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Cancer is tough. Evelyn Owens is tougher

At 7 years old, Evelyn Owens’ brave battle with cancer is capturing the hearts of everyone around her. Evelyn was diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare type of childhood cancer. It can occur anywhere in the body and be both aggressive and hard to treat. Evelyn’s family traveled from their home in Oregon to Mayo Clinic…

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