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Mayo Clinic Minute: Pap Test Recommendations
By Kathy MacLaughlin, MD on May 19, 2017For decades, many women have seen their health care provider for their yearly pap test to screen for cervical cancer. New technology that also checks for the presence of the human papillomavirus (HPV) means that most healthy women don't need to be screened as frequently.
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Mayo Clinic Minute: The ABCs of Avoiding Ticks
By Dr. Bobbi Pritt on May 10, 2017It's time to start preparing for what could be a worse than average spring and summer when it comes to tick populations across the United States. Mayo Clinic parasitic diseases expert, Dr. Bobbi Pritt, says as the last of the winter's snow melts, ticks start coming up from under the grass. -
Mayo Clinic Minute: Stop Cleaning Your Ears
By Dr. Karthik Balakrishnan on February 2, 2017Don't put anything smaller than your elbow in your ears. The advice you may have first heard from your mom has gotten a fresh thumbs-up from America's ear, nose and throat doctors. -
Mayo Clinic Minute: Move more at work
By Danielle Johnson, MPT on January 19, 2017How many minutes of exercise do you get every week? According to the American Heart Association, healthy adults should aim for 150 minutes of moderate activity per week or 75 minutes of vigorous activity per week. Some people have difficulty fitting that amount of exercise into their schedules. Mayo Clinic experts have a solution to that problem: Move more at work. -
Advance Directives
By Barbara Woodward Lips Patient Education Center on October 25, 2016This video encourages patients to fill out advance directives for the benefit of themselves and their families.