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Medical Edge: Kidney Stones
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 One out of ten, that's how many people will get a painful kidney stone sometime in their lives. Once you get a kidney stone you're at risk of getting another. But doctors at Mayo Clinic have some good news...
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Medical Edge: Phone Meditation
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 If there were a medication you could take that would reduce stress, lower your blood pressure, reduce anxiety, prevent disease, and improve your quality of life, would you take it? |
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Medical Edge: Preeclampsia
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 Pregnancy is a time of wonder, anticipation, joy and sometimes morning sickness. But for women who develop a condition called Preeclampsia, pregnancy can be deadly... |
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Medical Edge: Genome Mapping
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 In 2003 researchers mapped out the first human genome. It led to an explosion of knowledge about why people are different from one another. That meant for the first time doctors could learn more about why one person gets cancer or responds to treatment when another doesn't... |
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Medical Edge: Mayo Clinic Diet
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 You may have heard of the so-called Mayo Clinic diet. For years people have been trying to associate Mayo Clinic with various fad diets. But Mayo Clinic has never officially been associated with a dietary program until now...
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Medical Edge: The Smart Sniffer
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 One out of ten. Those are your chances of going into septic shock if you're a patient in a hospital intensive care unit... |
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Medical Edge: Esophageal Cancer
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 Treatment for esophageal cancer, even in the early stage, has traditionally involved the removal of the entire esophagus. But now, doctors at Mayo Clinic are using minimally invasive endoscopies to treat early cancers... |
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Medical Edge: Hip Replacement
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 Every year thousands of people undergo hip replacement surgery to get rid of pain caused by arthritis. The good news is most hip replacement operations are successful. But there could be a painful side effect, especially over time... |
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Medical Edge: Bladder Surgery
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 Bladder cancer and its surgery can dramatically change a patient's life, making some usually normal activities almost impossible. But now, a new solution could be on the horizon... |
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Medical Edge: Home Heart Device
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 25 billion dollars; that's how much money is spent every year on patients with heart failure in the United States. Most of that money is for on hospital visits. But now, clinicians and researchers at the Mayo Clinic are hoping to change that... |
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Medical Edge: Team Winter
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 Many men diagnosed with prostate cancer win the battle and are cured. Unfortunately some do not, and that was the case for one 40-year-old father. But out of his death, came inspiration... |
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Medical Edge: Guillain-Barre Syndrome
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 Imagine you're healthy one day, and can barely move the next. The symptoms came on fast. Within weeks the woman you're about to meet went from being completely healthy to lying in the intensive care unit, unable to move, struggling to breathe... |
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