The Mayo Clinic
The Mayo Clinic is a not-for-profit medical clinic that cares for many complex diseases. Patients will be seen by various doctors, specialists, and various health care providers to get a complete diagnosis for effective treatment.
The Mayo Clinic’s three web sites contain information about their services. Visitors can check out links to information on health topics, find out how to contact the clinic, and learn about their research and education. In addition, people can gain answers to their health questions online from various doctors, nurses, and allied health staff and also at the physcilitis themselves.
The Mayo Clinic is located in Rochester, Minn, Jacksonville, Fla, and both Phoenix and Scottsdale, Ariz. The logo represents their reputation as a pioneer and innovator in medical care when it comes to the big three; patient care, medical research, and academic education.
Their mission is to provide the best care to each patient on a daily basis through integrated clinical practice, education, and research.
Genetically speaking, people are 99.9 percent the same. The Mayo Clinic focuses on the things that make people different and can help diagnose illness and get treatment for diseases. They call this individualized medicine. We want to better tailor treatments to patients," says Eric Wieben, Ph.D., director of the Mayo Clinic Genomics Research Center. At all locations, there is research underway on Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, as well as chemical dependency. Mayo Clinic operates due to benefactors and philanthropy. Philanthropy is an essential part of the clinic and research for treatments for diseases which keeps them on the “cutting edge” of the medical field. Through research they have found that Tamoxifen, a drug that is usually used to treat breast cancer, may not always be the best treatment due to 10 percent of Caucasian women having genetic alterations that can affect it. For those with colon cancer, they have found that the gene UGTIA1, a standard dose of first line chemotherapy medication can actually cause life-threatening compilations. Now they run a simple blood test before starting any treatment.
Thirty percent of those with major depression do not improve with the first anti depressant prescribed. It has been found that a defiency in the gene Cyp4502D6 can actually metabolize the medication. "Our goal is to make individualized medicine a more widespread and routine part of clinical practice," says Dr. Wieben.
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