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Cancer ByJulie Ferris-Tillman, Ph.D. August 27, 2026 Getty Images ROCHESTER, Minn. — Three new articles from The Lancet Hematology published today examine how clinicians and researchers can better identify, track and measure the effects of blood cancer treatments on patients during treatment and over the long term. Gita Thanarajasingam, M.D., a Mayo Clinic hematologist and oncologist, leads The Lancet Haematology’s Adverse Events Reporting Series. The Series focuses on how clinicians care for people after treatment, how they measure treatment side effects and whether digital tools can help detect and manage those effects in real-world practice. Gita Thanarajasingam, M.D. “Blood cancer…

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic is a clinical collaborator on an award of up to $27.7 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to help develop affordable, scalable gene-editing therapies for children with rare inherited immune disorders. The project, known as AEGIS, is led by the Innovative Genomics Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, and brings together a consortium of academic, clinical, nonprofit and industry partners. The five-year initiative aims to advance gene-editing treatments for children with inborn errors of immunity — a group of more than 500 rare genetic disorders that can leave children vulnerable…

Key points: For a lot of students, school can feel like a transaction: You do the work, you get the check mark, and then you move on. That model can unintentionally cap what students show us about what they know and can do. Whenever I reconnect with former students I taught years ago, I’m always struck by what they actually remember. Nobody brings up a worksheet, a slide deck, or a specific test question. Instead, they bring up their experiences: moments where they got their hands dirty solving real problems, collaborating with people outside our classroom, and wrestling with big,…

Cardiovascular August 26, 2026 After a suspected amniotic fluid embolism led to maternal cardiac arrest, Mayo Clinic teams mobilized ECMO and coordinated multidisciplinary care within minutes.  Kayla Gengler with newborn Ida after a suspected amniotic fluid embolism led to emergency delivery, cardiac arrest and ECMO activation at Mayo Clinic. On June 17, 2026, Kayla Gengler walked through the doors of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, with her husband, AJ, and their youngest daughter, Ida.  The date carried more than one meaning. It was Ida’s first birthday. It was Kayla and AJ’s ninth wedding anniversary. And it marked one year since…

Key points: Clear, timely communication is the bedrock of the relationship between a school and its families. It is the invisible thread connecting a student’s classroom progress to the support they receive at home. However, for a growing portion of the American population, that thread is frayed. According to U.S. Census data, nearly 10 percent of residents (roughly 25 million people) do not speak English proficiently. When critical information, from emergency alerts to graduation requirements, is buried behind a language barrier, families feel more than just uninformed; they feel fundamentally disconnected from their child’s daily learning. In my experience working…

Neurosciences August 25, 2026 DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My mother gets headaches from time to time, but recently she’s been reading that some headaches can be signs of serious medical problems. What’s the difference between a headache that’s just a nuisance and one that needs immediate medical attention?  ANSWER: Most headaches aren’t a symptom of a life-threatening condition. Common headaches, including tension headaches and migraines, can be painful and disruptive, but they usually aren’t medical emergencies. However, certain headache symptoms shouldn’t be ignored because they can signal a serious underlying condition, such as a stroke, bleeding in the brain, meningitis or,…

Medical Innovation August 25, 2026 Guy Robinson, M.B.B.S., an internal medicine resident in Mayo Clinic in Florida’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Track, works with a humanoid robot being evaluated for its potential to assist healthcare teams with routine tasks in cardiovascular care settings. Physicians-in-training explore how emerging technologies, including humanoid robots, could help support healthcare teams and improve patient care  In a simulation lab at Mayo Clinic in Florida, a humanoid robot carefully retrieves medical supplies, organizes equipment and helps prepare a cardiac catheterization laboratory.  The robot moves slowly, and its capabilities are still being tested. But for the physicians gathered…

Key points: Long before computers entered our homes and classrooms, photographs helped shape what people believed. Images carried a particular kind of authority: We did not simply look at them; we often treated them as evidence. They helped audiences understand events they had never witnessed themselves and gave distant stories a sense of immediacy and truth. Yet images have never been neutral witnesses. They can be selected, cropped, staged, retouched, captioned, or removed from their original context. Photographic manipulation predates the digital age. What artificial intelligence has changed is not the possibility of visual deception, but its speed, accessibility, scale,…

Mayo Clinic Children’s August 24, 2026 With youth mental health challenges on the rise, Mayo Clinic supports programs that help build confidence and resilience among young people.     A team of pediatric nurses volunteered at Rochester’s fall Girls on the Run 5K. From left to right: Amanda Neve, Grace Sander, Naomi Warmka (daughter of a nurse), Lindsey Gromer, Kameron Kroh. In 2021, the surgeon general warned of an emerging national youth mental health crisis. Yet, even as awareness grows, 1 in 5 adolescents report a lack of mental health support.   “Mental health drives quality of life. It’s also associated with your…

Key points: Financial education is gaining real momentum across the United States. More states are adopting mandates, more schools are adding graduation requirements, and more policymakers are acknowledging that students need practical preparation for the financial decisions they will face as adults. That progress matters because every student will eventually make consequential choices involving money, including renting a home, paying for higher education, starting a job, using credit, buying insurance, and planning for long-term financial security. Strong financial education can help young people approach those decisions with greater knowledge and confidence. Recent analysis from the National Financial Educators Council, however,…