2006

Clinical Update Supplement - Focus on Pediatrics

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Clinical Update is a quarterly publication for physicians that highlights trends in the practice of medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester.

Inside this issue

Mayo Clinic Pediatric Immunodeficiency Center Provides Early, Accurate Diagnoses and Management Advice
To provide early, accurate diagnoses and management advice for children with immune disorders, in February 2005 Mayo Clinic opened its Pediatric Immunodeficiency Center, one of only a few in the United States.
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Mayo Clinic Designated Phase 1 Study Center for New Treatments
of Recurrent Pediatric Cancers
The Division of Pediatric Oncology at Mayo Clinic is a member of the Children's Oncology Group Phase 1 Consortium, a group of 21 institutions in the United States funded by the National Cancer Institute to investigate new agents for therapy of cancer.
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Expanded Focus of Mayo Clinic's Pediatric Asthma Service
The dramatic rise in the incidence in asthma, as well as the increasing complexity of both social and biological factors at work in asthma, has led Mayo Clinic pediatric asthma clinicians and researchers to expand their focus in treating pediatric asthma patients.
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