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Guidelines for sites linking to mayoclinic.orgPublished twice a year, Mayo Clinic Magazine focuses on the many ways that philanthropy supports Mayo's mission to provide the best care to each patient every day through integrated clinical practice, medical education and research.
Mayo Clinic Magazine is mailed without charge to the homes of benefactors who contribute $100 or more per year or join one of the various philanthropic organizations.
The Fall/Winter issue of Mayo Clinic Magazine offers a look inside one family's heartbreak and how it became the impetus for their gift to endow a fund dedicated to traumatic brain injury research.
Readers learn about "Determined Philanthropy" and how Richard O. Jacobson's desire to establish the Mayo Clinic Proton Beam Therapy Program with major new facilities in Minnesota and Arizona will make a huge difference to patients with certain cancers.
Other stories track the Lewy body dementia detectives as they pursue the mysteries surrounding this disease.
Rounding out this edition, readers are treated to a stunning photo essay celebrating the 25th anniversary of Mayo Clinic in Florida.
Look for the Mayo Clinic Magazine iPad version coming in January 2012.
For questions about the publication or to receive a complimentary copy, please call 507-284-8540 or email.
Leeanna Simons, executive editor
Dianne Axen, managing editor
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