Five significant announcements by the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville over the last two weeks highlight what is perhaps an underappreciated aspect of the clinic’s contribution to health care: a focus on research. Four of the announcements concerned the publication of important research studies. The fifth announced that the National Institutes of Health had given the clinic a five-year, $7 million extension on a grant to do research on Parkinson’s disease.

Florida Times-Union by Charlie Patton

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