August 6, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for August 3, 2018
Washington Post, Hookworms burrowed into a teenager’s skin during a trip to Florida. You can’t unsee these images. by Lindsey Bever — There are two main types of hookworm: human hookworms and animal, or zoonotic, hookworms. Bobbi Pritt, director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory in the Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, said […]
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August 6, 2018
Man takes cross-country bike trip to raise money and awareness for rare cancer
First Coast News by Lindsey Boetsch Chances are, you never heard of the cancer, Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia. It’s a non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. It’s very rare and only 1,000 to 1,500 people are diagnosed each year. There’s not a lot of research and funding for it, but, Christopher Edgerton is trying to change that. “There sort of isn’t […]
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December 11, 2015
Mayo Clinic In the News 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 Laura Wuotila with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Guest Editor, Kelley Luckstein; Assistant Editor: Carmen Zwicker Yahoo! Health How to Stay Well When the Person Sleeping […]
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