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Mayo Clinic joins End Drug Shortage Alliance amid medical supply chain issues

With 120 medications on the FDA's shortages list, Mayo Clinic joined a coalition of doctors, manufacturers, distributors and other medical supply chain experts to try to come up with a solution.

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Mayo Clinic and UnitedHealthcare reach network agreement

In February, the news broke that Mayo Clinic would not treat patients covered by UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare Advantage insurance plan. The two Minnesota health care giants have now “reached an agreement on a new, multi-year network relationship.”

June 28, 2022 01:26 PM

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Mayo Clinic Labs to soon offer monkeypox testing

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced last week that five commercial laboratories, including Mayo Clinic Laboratories in Rochester, are now authorized to perform monkeypox tests to “greatly increase the capacity for the nation to detect the poxvirus.”

June 24, 2022 05:08 PM

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Doctors increasingly prescribe time in nature to promote mental and physical health

Biophilia is becoming an increasingly popular principle in integrative medicine as researchers are finding health benefits associated with spending time outside.

June 22, 2022 06:00 AM

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Mayo Clinic's Hudson plans are quiet, but still on the table

In 2018, Mayo Clinic Health System–Northwest Wisconsin Region paid $3 million for 9 acres in Hudson, Wis., and submitted a proposal to construct a 100,000-square-foot medical center.

June 15, 2022 06:54 PM

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'Mr. Rochester' has been traveling from Caribbean to the Med City for 50 years

In his home country of Antigua, friends and family have an unusual nicknames for retired businessman George Bahri. They call him “Mr. Rochester." That is due to his seemingly boundless enthusiasm for Rochester and Mayo Clinic.

June 14, 2022 06:30 AM

By Jeff Kiger

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Mayo Clinic Blood Donor Program hosts Battle of the Badges challenge among area first responders

The Rochester, Byron and Stewartville fire departments will be participating in the challenge along with the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Rochester Police Department and Mayo Clinic Ambulance service.

June 08, 2022 10:11 AM

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Health Fusion: Don't let mindfulness become another item on your to-do list. Make it meaningful

Life will be better once I lose 10 pounds, change jobs or check everything off of my to-do list. Sound familiar? In this "Health Fusion" column, Viv Williams explores why we should focus on being happy here and now with a Mayo Clinic doctor who studies mindfulness in his lab.

June 08, 2022 10:00 AM

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When COVID-19 hit, this Rochester woman decided to go on the 'Mayo Clinic diet'

Hubbard had failed in all her previous efforts until she tried a new diet.

June 07, 2022 08:52 AM

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Mayo Clinic offering $20 physicals for area high school athletes

Exams will be performed at Mayo Clinic Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, which is on the fourth floor of the Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center, 565 First St. SW, at Mayo Clinic in Rochester.

June 06, 2022 07:47 PM

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Rochester nurse remembers being 'ready for the worst' during tour in Vietnam

Mary Price signed up to serve after graduating from Saint Marys School of Nursing in 1966.

May 30, 2022 03:00 PM

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The best tools for combating anxiety in children are often within reach, experts say

The key is to continually remind children and teens that they are cared for, and to help them get back into the structure and familiar activities that give them a feeling of accomplishment. That's the advice of two experts from Mayo Clinic.

May 21, 2022 10:00 AM

By Paul John Scott

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After 8 years, Mayo Clinic student graduating with M.D., Ph.D. to pursue his passion

Justin Maroun is graduating Saturday, May 21, 2022, with an M.D. from Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine and a Ph.D. from Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences before starting his residency at Mayo Clinic. Maroun said he wants to combine his degrees to not only think about the patient in front of him, but also the patient 10 years from now.

May 21, 2022 06:30 AM

By Erich Fisher