Fiscal Year Wrap-Up
 Senior Vice President for Health Sciences Frank B. Cerra, M.D. highlighted accomplishments of the last five months and laid out a course to reach the next set of goals in "The Demand for Creative Approaches as We Compete for Our Future," on June 11 at Mayo Memorial Auditorium.
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The Future for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease
 July kicks off national Alzheimer’s disease awareness month, dedicated to the nearly 5.5 million adults in the United States suffering from the disease. A slowly progressive degenerative brain disease, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia in older adults. The syndrome, characterized by memory loss and other cognitive problems, eventually makes everyday activities, like remembering medications or appointments, troublesome.
J. Riley McCarten, M.D., assistant professor of neurology at the University of Minnesota Medical School and director of the Memory Clinic and N. Bud Grossman Center for Memory Research and Care discusses the symptoms of Alzheimer's and current research.
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Informatics: a Scientific Basis for Use of IT in Health Care and Biomedicine
View Dr. William Stead's presentation from April 21, 2008
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Masonic Cancer Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, and Medical School researchers collaborated on a new experimental treatment for a dog recently diagnosed with an aggressive brain cancer. The procedure involved removal of as much of the tumor as possible, followed by the injection of a gene therapy. The injection primes the remaining cancer cells for receiving a vaccine, which will be developed from tumor tissue removed during surgery. The dog, a shepherd mix named Batman, will receive the vaccine in three to four weeks.