January 10, 2020
How a growing trove of genetic data is informing medical breakthroughs
PBS Newshourby Miles O’Brien Individualized medicine, in which treatments are customized based on a patient’s unique DNA, is a rising field. Along with an ever-expanding genetic database, it offers tantalizing promise for solving some of medicine’s most daunting challenges. But individualized medicine also carries with it questions and risks — both moral and medical. Dr. […]
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January 10, 2020
Mayo Clinic, Helix to study the genetics of 100,000 patients
Post-Bulletinby Jeff Kiger Mayo Clinic is partnering with a California-based firm to recruit 100,000 patients to participate in genetic testing to discover possible health problems and help develop a research database. Working with the genomics company Helix, Mayo Clinic is looking for patients to participate in a study called Tapestry that will initially test for […]
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October 11, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for October 11, 2019
Wall Street Journal, Doctors Limit What to Tell Patients About Their DNA Test. Should They? by Melanie Evans and Anna Wilde Mathews — The Mayo Clinic is scanning 20,000 genes for thousands of patients to study genes’ role in disease. It will hand over results for just 59. Mayo will look for certain disease-causing gene […]
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August 16, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for August 16, 2019
Wall Street Journal, Deals Give Drugmakers Rights to DNA Data by Melanie Evans — Deals between drugmakers and hospital systems to mine the genetic profiles of hospital patients are triggering concerns over the control of valuable genetic data. Drugmakers have been spending hundreds of millions of dollars for access to patient information because of the […]
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June 21, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for June 21, 2019
Washington Post, A rare skin disease left a man isolated and alone. Surgery is helping to give him back his life. by Lindsey Bever — Dusica Babovic-Vuksanovic, a physician who specializes in genetic syndromes and leads the Neurofibromatosis Clinic at the Mayo Clinic, said neurofibromatosis is rare, affecting 1 in about 3,000 people in the […]
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September 14, 2018
Medical professionals convene in Rochester to discuss individualized care
KTTC by Holden Krusemark Advancing the world of individualized medicine is the goal for Mayo Clinic and is a reason they’ve hosted a conference for 7 years, getting some of the best minds together to learn and grow. About 1,000 medical professionals from all over the United States and the globe gathered at the Mayo […]
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January 26, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for January 26, 2018
STAT, A ‘Shark Tank’-funded test for food sensitivity is medically dubious, experts say by Allison Bond — Dr. Martha Hartz, an allergist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., says she frequently evaluates patients who’ve already forked over the cash for the testing. “Anytime I see a patient who’s had these kinds of […]
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June 9, 2017
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Emily Blahnik Wall Street Journal Mayo Clinic’s Unusual Challenge: Overhaul a Business That’s […]
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