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February 11, 2020
Couple Creates Easy Way to Give to the Homeless
By In the Loop 
Charlotte Mack has looked for ways to give to her community since arriving in the U.S. as a young child. She and her husband launched a company that makes it easy for anyone to help the homeless.
Tags: Charlotte Mack, Dr. Anwar Mack, Mayo Clinic in Florida, Mayo Clinic Volunteer Services
January 30, 2020
Rochester Restaurants Rally to Save Lives Through ‘Fun and Friendly’ Competition
By In the Loop
From Feb. 3 to April 30, seven Rochester restaurants will participate in a competition designed to serve up as much lifesaving blood as possible for the Mayo Clinic Blood Donor Program.
Tags: Battle of the Badges, Lauren E. Brown, Mayo Clinic Blood Donor Program
January 28, 2020
Zebrafish Help Rochester Middle Schoolers See Dangers of Vaping from the InSciEd Out
By In the Loop
Rather than simply telling kids vaping is harmful to their health, one Rochester school took a different approach to prevention, letting students figure it out themselves through hands-on research.
Tags: Dr. Christopher Pierret, InSciEd Out, Mayo Clinic in Rochester
January 21, 2020
‘Bioethics at the Cinema’ Event Features Double Lung Transplant Patient
By In the Loop
Jennifer Ronnenberg, a double lung transplant patient, along with her husband, Rob, and Mayo experts will participate in a panel discussion following a showing of the movie “Five Feet Apart.”
Tags: Cystic Fibrosis, Dr. Karen Meagher, Jessica Balcom, Lung Transplant, Mayo Clinic Biomedical Ethics Program, Mayo Clinic in Rochester
January 14, 2020
‘A Hospital, at 130 mph:’ Magazine Profiles Mayo’s Emergency Medical Helicopters
By In the Loop
The crew inside Mayo One, Mayo Clinic Ambulance Service’s emergency medical helicopters, has everything it needs to handle emergencies and get patients safely to a Mayo hospital.
Tags: Emergency Department, Mayo Clinic Ambulance Service, Mayo One
January 9, 2020
Virtual Reality Gaming Helps Patients Step Out of Their Own Realities
By In the Loop
Chuck and Nicole Marino’s mobile gaming station, Hyperspace Starcade, provided a nice break from reality for kids at Mayo Eugenio Children’s Center last month.
Tags: Ben Irons, Child LIfe Program, Mary McCoy, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Mayo Eugenio Litta Children's Hospital
January 9, 2020
That Time Mayovox Predicted Computers Were One Step Behind Microwave Ovens
By In the Loop
A recently uncovered Mayovox article from 1982 explains how a handful of Mayo staff banded together to buy Apple computers and form a computer club, where they began exploring the new timesaving device.
Tags: Karen Koka, Mayo History, Mayovox, technology
December 31, 2019
By In the Loop
Each year, In the Loop, like many of the world’s great news organizations, looks back and shares some favorite stories of the year gone by. It’s an edifying exercise, and it gives us a story to publish around the holidays that doesn’t feel like work. (Especially when we use the same clever packaging every year.)
December 19, 2019
Snowflake Station Turns Playroom Into Toy Store for Parents of Hospitalized Kids
By In the Loop
Spending the holidays in the hospital isn’t on anyone’s wish list, which is why Mayo Clinic and the Rochester community team up to bring extra cheer to families during December.
Tags: Mayo Clinic Children's Center, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Medulloblastoma
December 17, 2019
Thanks to Generous Businesses, Hospice Holiday Baking Tradition Continues
By In the Loop
Mayo Clinic Hospice volunteers once again rolled up their sleeves and pulled out their rolling pins to bake dozens of cookies, bars and other holiday delights for hospice patients.
Tags: Mayo Clinic Hospice Program, Mayo Clinic Hospice Volunteer Program