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Cancer September 23, 2026 September is Blood Cancer Awareness Month. This year alone, nearly 68,000 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with leukemia. Mayo Clinic hematologist and oncologist Dr. Cecilia Arana Yi says treatment is changing, and it’s giving patients more options. Watch: the Mayo Clinic Minute Journalists: Broadcast-quality video (1:09) is in the downloads at the end of this post. Please courtesy: “Mayo Clinic News Network.” Read the script. Unlike many cancers that form solid tumors, leukemia is a cancer of the blood-forming cells in the bone marrow. Dr. Arana Yi says, “Leukemia affects the production of the…

Key points: In my eight years as a high school CTE, Engineering and Architecture Pathway instructor, I have witnessed students and their families struggle to navigate their career trajectory. Every year, I hear three scenarios: “I think I know what I want to do,” “My parents want me to be a…,” and “I have no idea what I want to do.”  Most families and students subscribe to the idea that post-secondary education is the best viable option for future success, but there is no one-size-fits-all pathway to success. The first step to finding the pathway that best suits each student…

Cancer ByJulie Ferris-Tillman, Ph.D. September 22, 2026 Getty Images ROCHESTER, Minn. — A large prospective study published today in Nature Medicine found that a blood test designed to detect multiple cancers identified cancer signals across 17 broad cancer types, such as ovarian, lung, breast and colorectal cancers, and many which do not have recommended screening tests. Mayo Clinic was among the institutions participating in the prospective, interventional study, which enrolled 35,878 adults age 50 and older. Karthik Giridhar, M.D., a Mayo Clinic medical oncologist, was a study investigator and senior author. The multicancer early detection (MCED) test analyzes small fragments…

Neurosciences September 22, 2026 Emma and Lauren Fink After unexplained pain, stiffness and abnormal movements led to dystonia diagnoses, Mayo Clinic specialists tailored deep brain stimulation and ongoing care to Emma and Lauren Fink’s individual symptoms and goals.  In September 2024, 14-year-old Emma Fink reached for a volleyball during gym class when something suddenly went wrong.  “I went to bump the ball, and my shoulder blade popped out of place,” Emma says.   Her right shoulder blade shifted sharply upward and remained fixed in place. She describes the pain as feeling like “someone was punching me over and over.”  At the…

Orthopedics/Sports September 22, 2026 DEAR MAYO CLINIC: Our daughter plays field hockey, and it can get physical on the field with collisions and falls. We’re worried that we won’t know if she gets a concussion. What signs should we watch for?  ANSWER: With school team sports amping up, student-athletes are at greater risk of concussion. In addition to coaches, parents play a role in spotting signs of symptoms. A possible concussion isn’t something to brush off. It’s a form of mild traumatic brain injury.   During a concussion, the brain moves within the inner walls, sliding back and forth. This can…

Key points: When school librarians hear the word marketing, many immediately think of newsletters, social media posts, bulletin boards, or eye-catching displays. Those tools certainly have their place, but they’re only part of an effective marketing strategy. The libraries that earn strong support from administrators, teachers, parents, and students do more than communicate often. They communicate with purpose because they understand who they serve, how to measure their impact, and how to consistently tell their story. Rather than treating marketing as a series of standalone promotional tasks, school librarians can build a strategic, sustainable framework anchored in real-world data and…

Medical Innovation September 21, 2026 Helix to generate clinical whole genome sequencing and multi-omics data from one million biospecimens, advancing precision medicine as the standard of care ROCHESTER, Minn. and SAN MATEO, Calif. — Precure, LLC today announced the selection of Helix as its multi-omic laboratory and AI tools provider supporting plans to generate comprehensive molecular data from approximately one million biospecimens and accelerate the integration of molecular insights into routine clinical care at Mayo Clinic and across health systems more broadly. Less than a week ago, Mayo Clinic announced the launch of Precure, LLC, with founding partner Thermo Fisher…

Key points: As students and educators settle into the 2026-27 school year, K-12 leaders are navigating a landscape shaped by rapid technological change, persistent academic challenges, and growing pressure to demonstrate that new tools and strategies actually improve teaching and learning. Artificial intelligence remains at the center of many conversations, but the focus is shifting from simply adopting AI to determining where it adds genuine value, how it can be used responsibly, and what students and educators need to use it effectively. At the same time, familiar priorities are taking on new urgency. Districts continue to grapple with cybersecurity threats,…

Relationships need time and attention to thrive. A regular check-in, whether it’s daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly, can give you a dedicated space to focus on what your relationship needs. Think of it as a time to pause, reconnect, talk about what’s going well, and discuss anything that may need extra attention.If you tend to avoid conflict, bringing something up can feel harder than trying to just let it go. You may worry speaking up may cause an argument, hurt your partner’s feelings, or blow a small issue out of proportion. These are valid concerns! But when your feelings and…

Cancer ByJulie Ferris-Tillman, Ph.D. September 18, 2026 Saad Kenderian, M.B., Ch.B., uses a multi-channel pipette in the CAR-T Cell Engineering Laboratory. ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a strategy that could help chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy, or CAR-T cell therapy, overcome a major barrier to treating solid tumors: Cancer cells can change in ways that allow them to hide from immune cells designed to attack them. In a preclinical study published in Molecular Cancer, researchers found that drugs used to treat advanced thyroid cancer can restore a marker on aggressive thyroid cancer cells, making the cancer visible…