New CDC guidance for vaccinated adults. What does it mean?
- April 27, 2021
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today announced updated COVID-19 guidance for masking outdoors and for fully vaccinated people. For instance, fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a protective mask outdoors, except in certain crowded settings and venues. “I completely agree with the updated CDC recommendations,” says Dr. Abinash Virk, a […]
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The beat goes on, thanks to deep brain stimulation
- April 27, 2021
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When drummer Patrick Bautz is performing, he’s in the zone. He says he doesn’t even think about what he’s doing, it’s just natural. It’s what he calls “the nothingness of drumming.” But not that long-ago, Pat started getting distracted. Physical symptoms were turning that nothingness into something. And it was something that worried him enough […]
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Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Reducing rejection by reversing order of heart-liver transplant
- April 27, 2021
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For heart-liver transplants, the liver and heart must come from the same donor, and some patients wait years to receive both organs. Also, antibodies from the donor can increase chances of the receiving patient rejecting the heart. But Dr. Sudhir Kushwaha, a Mayo Clinic cardiovascular transplant surgeon, says when a liver transplant is also involved, […]
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Mayo Clinic’s New Research Building Growing to 11 Floors
- April 27, 2021
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ROCHESTER, Minn. — The long tradition of biomedical innovation that makes up Mayo Clinic’s DNA will continue with the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Building on the Rochester, Minnesota, campus, set to open in the fourth quarter of 2023. Research is the engine that drives advances in medical care, and the new facility will enable the […]
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