Feature Article Archive

U.S. News & World Report Names Mayo Clinic a "Best Hospital" for 20th Straight Year

Mayo Clinic has again been named to the Honor Roll of top hospitals by U.S. News & World Report in its annual "Best Hospitals" issue. Of the 4,861 hospitals analyzed, only 21– less than two-fifths of 1 percent – made the Honor Roll.
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American College of Surgeons Recognizes Mayo Hospitals for Exemplary Outcomes

The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) has recognized Mayo Clinic's Rochester Methodist and Saint Marys hospitals as two of the 26 participating hospitals in the United States that have achieved exemplary outcomes for surgical patient care. Read more.

Mayo Brothers to be Inducted into Healthcare
Hall of Fame

William J. "Will" Mayo, M.D., and Charles H. "Charlie" Mayo, M.D., founders of Mayo Clinic, will be inducted into the Healthcare Hall of Fame. The Mayo brothers, who both died in 1939, have been credited with developing the cooperative group practice model. Through their concept of teamwork, they created the model of integrated, multispecialty group practice which has been widely emulated at medical centers around the world. Today, leading health care analysts identify this model as the most capable of delivering high-quality, cost-effective care. Read more.

Growing to Meet Patients' Needs

Mayo Clinic is continually growing, improving and changing to better meet the needs of patients and their families. Read more.

Fortune names Mayo Clinic to 100 Best Companies to Work For® List

For the sixth year in a row, FORTUNE magazine named Mayo Clinic to its list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For®" in America, the magazine's annual compilation of companies that "rate high with employees." Read more.

Two in a Million — Times Three

Conjoined twins are extremely rare, occurring once in every 200,000 births. But for nearly a year, caring for three sets of conjoined – and formerly conjoined – twins was an everyday reality at Mayo Clinic and its children's hospital. Read more.

A New U.S. Health Care System - Creating Substantial Reform by 2011

Denis Cortese, M.D., CEO of Mayo Clinic, and Robert Smoldt, CAO of Mayo Clinic, recently published an essay describing a visiong for health care delivery in the 21st century. Read more.

Interpreting Medical News in the Media

Information about health and medicine are in the news almost daily. In this article, a Mayo Clinic physician gives tips on how to interpret what you read and see in the news. Read more.

Office of the Future

With the right office design, you can exercise while working at your desk and going to meetings. Find out more about Dr. James Levine's latest research. Read more.

Fidgeting: Key to Who is Lean or Obese

Wiggle, walk, tap your toes, shop, dance, clean your basement, play the guitar (fidget) to boost your NEAT — or if you're a scientist, your "non-exercise activity thermogenesis." Mayo Clinic researchers report in the journal Science that NEAT — more powerful than formal exercise — determines who is lean, and who is obese. Read more.

Effective Radiation Therapy

Radiation therapy — standard treatment for about half of all cancer patients — is anything but routine. Read more.

Mayo Clinic, IBM Aim to Drive Medical Breakthroughs

Mayo Clinic and IBM have announced a broad collaboration to accelerate advances in patient care and research with an aggressive set of technology initiatives. The goal is to take advantage of an explosion in new medical data to drive tighter linkage between research and the practice of medicine to achieve breakthroughs. Read more.

Web Support for Patients

Mayo Clinic offers CarePages, a free Web service for our patients while they are at Mayo, to help them keep in touch with loved ones back home and elsewhere. Read more.