HISTORICAL FACTS: Mayo org - The Untold Story

Buried cats, exorcisms and a sunken Colonel Sanders – the strange world of sporting curses

Sports fans can be a superstitious lot.

The Conversation · 13h ago

A Brain Antibody Tied Mostly to Older Adults and Hidden Cancers Turned Up in a Hallucinating Teen

A rare anti-NIF antibody helped explain a California teenager's hallucinations and catatonia. Her case highlights the value of spinal-fluid testing and the need for further pediatric research.

Medical Daily · Oct 28

Routine CT Scans Captured Steeper Fat Loss in the Three Years Before Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis Among 1,825 Patients

Mayo Clinic researchers saw steeper fat loss on routine CT scans years before pancreatic cancer diagnosis. Accuracy was moderate, and no test exists yet.

Medical Daily · Oct 21

Mayo Clinic Joins a $27.7 Million Federal Push to Build One Gene Editing Platform for Rare Immune Disease

Mayo Clinic joined the federal AEGIS project to build CRISPR treatments for children with inherited immune disorders. Here is what is real.

Medical Daily · Aug 28

One Brain Disease Explained Most Impostor Delusions in 204 Patients, and All 12 Autopsies Agreed

Capgras syndrome causes people to believe that a loved one is an impostor. A Mayo Clinic review of 204 patients points overwhelmingly to one brain disease.

Medical Daily · Aug 20

Nearly a Quarter of Arizona Pneumonia Patients Were Never Tested for Valley Fever, and 10% of Those Tested Had It

A Mayo Clinic Phoenix review found 10% of tested pneumonia patients had Valley fever, while about a quarter were never tested at all.

Medical Daily · Aug 14

Hospitals Are Asking Insured Patients to Pay Before Treatment, and the Practice Now Reaches Past Elective Care

Hospitals increasingly ask for payment before care. Here is what a pre-service deposit is, where it applies, and what patients can ask.

Medical Daily · Aug 13

The Reason Vitamin C Failed in the Famous Mayo Clinic Cancer Trials May Have Been the Pills Themselves

Pauling gave patients intravenous vitamin C. The trials that discredited him used tablets, and the gut caps how much can be absorbed.

Medical Daily · Aug 13

Is your ill fate bad luck or a curse? You could ask Ted Lasso, but why not consider the psychology

From Mayo to Birmingham City, sports lore is rife with powerful hexes. There’s nothing mystical about the dread and self-doubt they can induce, says science writer Helen Pilcher

The Guardian - UK · Aug 9

Mayo Clinic Used AI to Design a Molecule Against a Pancreatic Cancer Protein Long Considered Undruggable

Mayo Clinic researchers used AI to design a small molecule targeting the GIPC1 PDZ domain in pancreatic cancer. What undruggable means and how early this is.

Medical Daily · Aug 7