Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

June 14th, 2013 - 1:39 pm

 

 

June 14, 2013

Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News.

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USA TODAY
HPV causes a growing number of oral cancers
by Liz Szabo

Michael Douglas discussed his battle with throat cancer in an interview with The Guardian newspaper, in which doctors raised the point that some throat cancers can be caused by a sexually transmitted virus, HPV, related to cervical cancer. But Douglas’ spokesperson has rebutted the newspaper’s headline saying that oral sex caused his cancer. The spokesperson said that the article simply included discussion of oral sex as a suspected cause of certain oral cancers… Q. Does everyone who is infected get cancer? A. In an estimated 85% of cases, a person’s immune system gets rid of the infection, just as it would eventually overcome a cold virus, says Eric Moore, an associate professor of otolaryngology at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. The immune system knocks out most HPV infections on the cervix, as well, before they cause harm.

Circulation: USA TODAY has a circulation of 1.8 million and a readership of 3.1 million. USA TODAY websites have 26.3 million unique visitors a month.

Additional Coverage:
WCCO 830 Dr. Eric Moore HPV June 4, 2013 (Audio)

NY Times
Oral Cancer Sneaks Up

LA Times, MedPage Today

Context: Eric Moore, M.D. is a physician in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Human papillomavirus (also called HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI). There are more than 40 HPV types that can infect the genital areas of males and females. HPV can also infect the mouth and throat. Most people who become infected with HPV do not know they have it. HPV can sometimes cause cancer.

There are more than 40 HPV types that can infect the genital areas of males and females. HPV can also infect the mouth and throat. Most people who become infected with HPV do not know they have it. HPV can sometimes cause cancer.

Most of the time, HPV goes away by itself within two years and does not cause health problems. It is thought that the immune system fights off HPV naturally. It is only when certain types of HPV do not go away over years that it can cause cancers. It is not known why HPV goes away in most, but not all cases. There is no way to know which people will go on to develop cancer. The good news is that it can be prevented with a vaccine.

An HPV vaccine is recommended for 11- or 12-year-old boys and girls. HPV vaccines are safe and effective, and can protect males and females against some of the most common types of HPV that can lead to disease and cancer. HPV vaccines are given in three shots over six months; it is important to get all three doses to get the best protection. Boys and girls at ages 11 or 12 are most likely to have the best protection provided by HPV vaccines, and their immune response to vaccine is better than older women and men.

It’s important to put HPV-related cancers in context. While rates of HPV-related cancers are rising, which is a concern, HPV-related cancers are still relatively rare.

Additional Resources on HPV Vaccines
News Release: More Parents Say They Won’t Vaccinate Daughters Against HPV, Researchers Find

Medical Edge Newspaper Column: Age 9 an Appropriate Age for Girls to Receive HPV Vaccine

Medical Edge Newspaper Column: HPV Vaccine Now Recommended for Boys

Public Affairs Contacts: Joe Dangor, Bryan Anderson

Star Tribune
Mayo Clinic puts stem cells to the test on infant heart defect
by Dan Browning

Every year, about 1,000 babies are born in the United States with half a heart — a rare defect that requires a series of risky surgeries and, even then, leaves the infants with a strong likelihood that their hearts will wear out prematurely. Now, the Mayo Clinic has received federal approval for a first-of-its kind clinical study to see if stem cells from the babies’ own umbilical cords can strengthen their underdeveloped hearts and extend their lives.

Circulation: The Star Tribune Sunday circulation is 518,745 copies and weekday circulation is 300,277. The Star Tribune is the state’s largest newspaper and ranks 16th nationally in circulation.

Context: Mayo Clinic has announced the first U.S. stem cell clinical trial for pediatric congenital heart disease. The trial aims to determine how stem cells from autologous umbilical cord blood can help children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a rare defect in which the left side of the heart is critically underdeveloped. The trial will test the safety and feasibility of delivering a personalized cell-based therapy into the heart of 10 infants affected by HLHS.

“We want to see if these stem cells will increase the volume and strength of the heart muscle to give it greater durability and power to pump blood throughout the body,” says Harold Burkhart, M.D., a pediatric cardiovascular surgeon with the Mayo Clinic Children’s Center.

“The care of these children with HLHS has been continuously improving since the first surgical procedure became available three decades ago, yet cardiac transplantation continues to be the limiting factor for far too many individuals,” says Timothy Nelson, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Todd and Karen Wanek Family Program for HLHS in Mayo Clinic’s Center for Regenerative Medicine. “Applying stem cell-based regeneration may offer a viable solution to help these children develop new tissues and grow stronger hearts.”

News Release: Mayo Clinic First in US to Test Stem Cells in Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease Patients

Additional Resources: Animation, lab b-roll and sound bites with Dr. Burkhart and Tim Nelson, M.D.,Ph.D

ABC News
7 Surprising Effects of Obesity
by Liz Neporent

…Dr. Donald Hensrud, a nutritionist and preventive medicine expert in the department of endocrinology, diabetes, metabolism and nutrition at the Mayo Clinic, said one of the most immediate health dangers for many obese people is sleep apnea, a condition in which a person gasps or stops breathing momentarily while asleep. “Sleep apnea can be caused by increased fat around the neck area that presses down and closes off the soft tissues of the airways while a person is lying down, especially on his back,” Hensrud said in tip #5.

Circulation:  ABCNews.com is the official website for ABC News.

Context: Donald Hensrud, M.D. is a preventive medicine expert at Mayo Clinic and medical editor of The Mayo Clinic Diet.

Public Affairs Contacts: Nick Hanson, Ginger Plumbo

Star Tribune
Cancer patients abandoning their beds and hitting the gym
by Allie Shah

…It’s something doctors are embracing, too. Dr. Andrea Cheville of the Mayo Clinic said exercise offers significant benefits for cancer patients. She cited in particular a 2005 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association which found that breast cancer patients who walked briskly for three hours a week had an almost 50-percent reduction in their risk of breast cancer recurrence. “That’s honestly as good as any drug we have,” she said.

Additional Coverage: Huffington Post Canada

Circulation: The Star Tribune Sunday circulation is 518,745 copies and weekday circulation is 300,277. The Star Tribune is the state’s largest newspaper and ranks 16th nationally in circulation.

Context: Andrea Cheville, M.D., Mayo Clinic Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, interest in research includes exercise in the rehabilitation of cancer patients.

Public Affairs Contact: Nick Hanson

ESPN
Dr Bernard Morrey, Mayo Clinic

Dr. Bernard Morrey of the Mayo Clinic talks about fascia and tendon surgeries, also Pau Gasol’s plantar fascia condition on ESPN Radio’s Weekend Warrior show.  

Reach: ESPN’s Weekend Warrior show originates from ESPN-LA is hosted by Dr. Robert Klapper, Director of the Joint Replacement Program and Orthopaedic Surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Group and Cedars-Sinai Health Associates. Dr. Klapper was the orthopaedic consultant to the TV show “ER.”

Context: Bernard Morrey, M.D., Mayo Clinic Orthopedic Surgery, is a Mayo Clinic Distinguished Alumni Award recipient. The contributions of Dr. Morrey as a distinguished clinician and scientist in orthopedic surgery place him as one of the most influential orthopedic surgeons of the last half-century. He is a prominent authority on elbow surgery and has made significant contributions to the anatomy, physiology, biomechanics and surgical reconstruction of the elbow.

Public Affairs Contact: Bryan Anderson

KIMT
Best Pediatric Hospital Rankings
by Amy Fleming

Mayo Clinic children’s center receives high marks for the third year in a row. Mayo Clinics ranked in all ten pediatric specialties in u-s news and world reports list of best children’s hospitals. t’s the only hospital in the Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Dakotas region to be named in all 10 areas. Some of the specialties include diabetes and endocrinology, cardiology and heart surgery, as well as neurology, and neonatal among others. University of Iowa Children’s hospitals ranked high in five specialty areas.

Reach: KIMT 3 serves the Mason City-Austin-Albert Lea-Rochester market.

Additional Coverage:
Post-Bulletin
Mayo Clinic Children’s Center ranks high

Context: Mayo Clinic Children’s Center has again been ranked in all 10 pediatric specialties in U.S. News & World Report’s 2013-14 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings. Each year, U.S. News & World Report, using an extensive survey and input from pediatric specialists from around the country, ranks nearly 200 of the nation’s children’s hospitals and identifies only the top 50 in each of 10 specialty areas. This is the third year in a row that the Mayo Clinic Children’s Center has been the only Minnesota hospital to rank in all 10 specialties. In fact, the Mayo Clinic Children’s Center is the only children’s hospital not only in Minnesota but also the surrounding states of Wisconsin, Iowa and the Dakotas to rank in each of the specialties included in the survey: cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology, neonatology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology and urology.

News Release: Mayo Clinic Children’s Center Ranks in All 10 Specialties for Third Straight Year in Best Children’s Hospital Rankings

Public Affairs Contact: Kelley Luckstein

KTTC
Proton beam build begins
by Peter Schuneman

What might it take to rid cancer cells in Mayo Clinic patients?  About 125 tons of equipment in the form of a new proton beam gantry.  The possibilities came to fruition on Thursday at the new Richard O. Jacobson cancer treatment facility as crews began install the first two pieces of the new beam. “Each piece is awkward, each piece is different amounts,” said Josh Christensen, project manager with Boldt Construction. “And there are 18 pieces total, roughly 20,000 pounds each. “In the scheme of things the overall gantry itself is 125 tons of steel,” Christensen said. “I’ve been working on it nearly full time since 2007,” said Jon Kruse, physicist at Mayo Clinic. “So to see real big parts coming in a physical manifestation of this work is pretty exciting.”

Reach: KTTC, an NBC affiliate, serves the Rochester, Minn. area including the towns of Austin, Mason City, Albert Lea and Winona. KTTC-Online receives more than 73,000 unique vistors each month.

Additional Coverage: FOX 47, KAAL, KIMT, Post-Bulletin

Context: When fully established, the Mayo Clinic Proton Beam Therapy Program will offer one of the most technologically advanced treatment options to people with cancer. Proton beam therapy precisely targets cancer cells through the use of charged particles. While not everyone with cancer requires proton beam therapy, it is a preferred treatment for selected patients, such as children and adults with anatomically complex tumors adjacent to critical or sensitive organs and regions such as the brain, eye, spinal cord, lung, heart, liver, bowel and kidneys. Proton beam therapy is sometimes used to treat benign tumors as well. Proton beam therapy facilities are being built at Mayo Clinic’s campuses in Rochester, Minn., and Phoenix, Ariz. Groundbreaking in Rochester was in September 2011 and in Phoenix in December 2011. The first treatment rooms are expected to open by mid-2015 in Rochester and by March 2016 in Phoenix. Both facilities will be fully operational in 2017. Central to the development of this program was a gift of $100 million from longtime Mayo patient and philanthropist Richard O. Jacobson. A $10 million Gift from Lawrence W. and Marilyn W. Matteson also supports the proton beam therapy program.

Public Affairs Contacts: Kelley Luckstein, Bryan Anderson

KAAL
Mayo Clinic, RPS Team Up
by Steph Crock

Starting in the fall, Rochester Public High School students will get a strength and conditioning coach from Mayo Clinic. Through the collaboration all three high schools, Century, John Marshall, and Mayo High School will have their own certified specialist on-hand….”They’ve (school coaches) done a great job, don’t get me wrong, but it’s good to have a trained professional. They will be certified strength and conditioning specialists,” said Chad Eickhoff with Mayo Clinic.

Reach: KAAL is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting Inc., which owns all ABC Affiliates in Minnesota including KSTP in Minneapolis-St. Paul and WDIO in Duluth. KAAL, which operates from Austin, also has ABC satellite stations in Alexandria and Redwood Falls. KAAL serves Southeast Minnesota and Northeast Iowa.

Additional Coverage:
KTTC
RPS, Mayo Clinic expanding partnership

Context: Mayo Clinic announced erecently an expansion to its sports medicine practice to meet the growing regional, national and international demand for its expertise. The expansion is part of the 100,000-square-foot Mayo Clinic Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center building project, and is scheduled to open in spring of 2014. The Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Center is a global leader in sports and musculoskeletal injury prevention and rehabilitation, concussion research, diagnostic and interventional ultrasound, and surgical and nonsurgical management of sports-related injuries.

News Release: Mayo Clinic Planning Major Sports Medicine Center Expansion

Public Affairs Contact: Bryan Anderson

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Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

June 7th, 2013 - 10:41 am

 

 

June 7, 2013

Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News.

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Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations

CNBC
Mayo Clinic’s CEO on $5 Billion Expansion

John Noseworthy, M.D., Mayo Clinic president and CEO, discusses what his company is doing to create more jobs, the best opportunities internationally for growth and Obamacare.

Reach: CNBC provides real-time financial market coverage and business information to more than 340 million homes worldwide, including more than 95 million households in the United States and Canada.

Context: John Noseworthy, M.D., Mayo Clinic President and CEO, was interviewed by Maria Bartiromo on CNBC’s Closing Bell.

Public Affairs Contact: Traci Klein

Florida Times-Union
What Northeast Florida hospitals charge for procedures can vary by thousands
by Kate Perry

To treat a Medicare patient with chest pain, Orange Park Medical Center charges almost $36,000 — more than three times the cost at the Mayo Clinic. But when the federal government sends payment, the Hospital Corporation of America-owned hospital gets paid $3,300. It’s a far cry from their listed charge and $1,000 less than the Mayo Clinic will receive for the same procedure, according to data released this month by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services showing the hospital charge and the rate Medicare paid for the 100 most popular procedures in 2011.

Circulation: The Florida Times-Union reaches more than 120,000 daily and 173,000 readers Sunday.

Context: Bob Brigham is chair, administration at Mayo Clinic in Florida.

Public Affairs Contact: Kevin Punksy

MPR – The Daily Circuit
Is your iPad an anti-sleeping tablet?

Many people spend their last moments before sleep reading on a tablet computer or checking messages on a smart phone. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic wondered whether the light emitted by such devices might be disrupting users’ sleep patterns. The initial findings of a sleep study suggest that dimming a smartphone and holding it at least 14 inches from your face might help you sleep better. Dr. Lois Krahn, a psychiatrist at Mayo’s Scottsdale, Ariz., clinic, conducted the study to determine if smartphones and tablets were interfering with melatonin, a hormone that helps control the body’s sleep cycle.

Reach: Minnesota Public Radio operates 43 stations and serves virtually all of Minnesota and parts of the surrounding states. MPR has more than 100,000 members and more than 900,000 listeners each week, which is the largest audience of any regional public radio network.

Additional coverage:

KARE11 , Using your smartphone and not disrupting your sleep 
ABC News Radio, Innovations Report, Deccan Chronicle, Yahoo! Noticias, Yucatan Hoy, starMedia, El Imparcial, Headlines and Global News, Daily Mail UK, Biomedicine, Yahoo! Noticias, RxPG NEWS, Medical News Today, Times of India, Headlines & Global NewsHealth News Digest, Health Canal, Times of India, NDTV Gadgets, Indian Express, , Medical Daily, Science Codex, Sisat Daily, Cyber India Online, Innovations Report

Context: Smartphones and tablets can make for sleep-disrupting bedfellows. One cause is believed to be the bright light-emitting diodes that allow the use of mobile devices in dimly lit rooms; the light exposure can interfere with melatonin, a hormone that helps control the natural sleep-wake cycle. But there may be a way to check your mobile device in bed and still get a good night’s sleep. A Mayo Clinic study suggests that dimming the smartphone or tablet brightness settings and holding the device at least 14 inches from your face while using it will reduce its potential to interfere with melatonin and impede sleep. “In the old days people would go to bed and read a book. Well, much more commonly people go to bed and they have their tablet on which they read a book or they read a newspaper or they’re looking at material. The problem is it’s a lit device, and how problematic is the light source from the mobile device?” says co-author Lois Krahn, M.D., a psychiatrist and sleep expert at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz.

News Release: Are Smartphones Disrupting Your Sleep? Mayo Clinic Study Examines the Question

Public Affairs Contact: Sharon Theimer

MPR
Making the most out of doctor-patient conversations

As doctors engage patients in conversations about their health, they need skills they didn’t necessarily learn in medical school…Less medicine for overwhelmed patients “It’s hard enough to live with a chronic condition like diabetes, says Dr. Victor Montori of the Mayo Clinic. But sometimes doctors make it harder, by piling on more tests and treatments than the patient can bear.

Reach: Minnesota Public Radio operates 43 stations and serves virtually all of Minnesota and parts of the surrounding states. MPR has more than 100,000 members and more than 900,000 listeners each week, which is the largest audience of any regional public radio network.

Context: The research of Victor Montori, M.D., takes place in the Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Montori is interested in how knowledge is produced, disseminated and taken up in practice — and how this leads to optimal health care delivery and patient outcomes. Dr. Montori also serves as director of the Health Care Delivery Research Program in the Mayo Clinic Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery.

Public Affairs Contact: Bob Nellis

Post-Bulletin
Officials, residents pack Rochester City Council meeting about Mayo Clinic’s DMC
by Edie Grosfield

City and Mayo Clinic officials and citizens packed a Rochester City Council committee-of-the-whole meeting Monday afternoon to hear an overview of the Destination Medical Center legislation that was passed recently as part of the state’s tax bill.

Post-Bulletin
DMC has big plans
by Mike Klein

The words “infrastructure plan” conjure images of utilitarian streets and sewers, but Mayo Clinic’sDestination Medical Center calls for far more than that. The $500-million-plus plan envisions creating a pleasing urban environment in downtown Rochester where pedestrians could walk on leafy plazas with shopping and restaurants, and be trundled to their appointments by streetcars, based on documents created by DMC and the city of Rochester.

Related Coverage:
Post-Bulletin
Fran Bradley: DFL took some of the shine off of DMC

MPR
Mayo Clinic expansion boosts talk of high-speed rail

MPR
Mayo Clinic win could help attract high-speed rail

Post-Bulletin
Destination Twin Cities? Rochester high-speed rail plan studied

Additional Coverage: Star Tribune, Post-Bulletin, KAAL, Post-Bulletin, MPR, KAAL, MPR

Context: Destination Medical Center (DMC), an economic development initiative designed to secure Mayo Clinic and Minnesota’s future as a global medical destination, passed on May 20 as part of the Minnesota Legislature’s tax bill. It will help fund the public infrastructure required to keep pace with an estimated $5 billion private investment by Mayo Clinic and other private entities over the next 20 years.

Destination Medical Center Website

Public Affairs Contacts: Bryan Anderson, Karl Oestreich, Nora O’Sullivan (Zip Rail)

MinnPost
Mayo doctors propose higher — and new — ‘sin taxes’
by Susan Perry

Two Mayo Clinic physicians have joined the growing ranks of health professionals who believe we should be using our tax codes to help change behavior and improve health. In a provocative commentary published in the June issue of the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings, anesthesiologists Dr. Michael Joyner and Dr. David Warner propose increasing current taxes on alcohol and tobacco and implementing new taxes on fatty foods and sugary beverages.

Circulation: MinnPost is a nonprofit, nonpartisan enterprise which provides news and analysis based on reporting by professional journalists, most of whom have decades of experience in the Twin Cities media. According to MinnPost, the site averages more than 450,000 visits and more than 850,000 page views a month. At the end of 2010, MinnPost also had 8,800 followers on Twitter and its main Facebook page was liked by 3,500-plus readers.

Additional Coverage: BringMeTheNews, NewsTrackIndia, Business Standard, FOX9 News, Medical Xpress, Feed My Science, Science Newsline, Science Codex, Toronto Telegraph, Post-Bulletin, ThirdAge, KAAL

Context: Go ye and sin no more — or pay for it, when it comes to junk food, smoking and consuming alcohol. That’s the message from two Mayo Clinic physicians who say raising “sin” taxes on tobacco and alcoholic beverages and imposing them on sugary drinks and fatty foods would lead many people to cut back, improving public health. The article by Michael Joyner, M.D., and David Warner, M.D., appears in the June issue of the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

News Release: Smoking, Sugar, Spirits and ‘Sin’ Taxes: Higher Price Would Help Health, Mayo Clinic Doctors Say

Public Affairs Contact: Nick Hanson

MinnPost
The telemedicine tourniquet
by Denise Logeland

Inside the Mayo Clinic’s Center for Innovation in Rochester, a new initiative is taking shape: the development of Mayo’s Center for Connected Care. “This is a major initiative of the Mayo Clinic across all of its campuses,” says Dr. Bart Demaerschalk, director of the Mayo Clinic’s telestroke and teleneurology program and a vascular neurologist with the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix. The vision is to “provide virtual care to patients regionally, within states that are historically Mayo Clinic territories, but also nationally and globally.” And not just in Demaerschalk’s specialty of stroke diagnosis and treatment.

Circulation: MinnPost is a nonprofit, nonpartisan enterprise which provides news and analysis based on reporting by professional journalists, most of whom have decades of experience in the Twin Cities media. According to MinnPost, the site averages more than 450,000 visits and more than 850,000 page views a month. At the end of 2010, MinnPost also had 8,800 followers on Twitter and its main Facebook page was liked by 3,500-plus readers.

Context: Bart Demaerschalk, M.D., is a Mayo Clinic neurologist at Mayo Clinic in Arizona and also director of the Mayo Clinic Telestroke and Teleneurology program. In stroke telemedicine, also called telestroke, doctors who have advanced training in the nervous system (neurologists) remotely evaluate people who’ve had acute strokes and make diagnoses and treatment recommendations to emergency medicine doctors at other sites. Doctors communicate using digital video cameras, Internet telecommunications, robotic telepresence, smartphones and other technology.

Public Affairs Contact: Shelly Plutowski

Star Tribune
Mayo swings for fences in sports medicine
by Jackie Crosby

The Mayo Clinic is making a big play to attract ailing athletes and weekend warriors with aching knees to its campus. The hospital system plans to open a 22,000-square-foot sports medicine facility in Rochester next spring that will double its existing practice. The center aims to be a sort of high-tech medical playground that will help the injured get back in the game and the healthy hone their skills. “A lot of people think of Mayo as the last resort,” said Dr. Edward Laskowski, co-director of Mayo’s Sports Medicine Center. “We want to change that.”

Reach: The Star Tribune Sunday circulation is 518,745 copies and weekday circulation is 300,277. The Star Tribune is the state’s largest newspaper and ranks 16th nationally in circulation.

Additional Coverage:
MinnPost
Mayo Clinic to build sports medicine center

Post-Bulletin
Our View: Sports Medicine Center is part of paradigm shift 

Additional Coverage: Sioux City Journal

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Context: Mayo Clinic announced this week an expansion to its sports medicine practice to meet the growing regional, national and international demand for its expertise. The expansion is part of the 100,000-square-foot Mayo Clinic Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center building project, and is scheduled to open in spring of 2014. The Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Centeris a global leader in sports and musculoskeletal injury prevention and rehabilitation, concussion research, diagnostic and interventional ultrasound, and surgical and nonsurgical management of sports-related injuries.

News Release: Mayo Clinic Planning Major Sports Medicine Center Expansion

Public Affairs Contact: Bryan Anderson

Post-Bulletin
Mayo Clinic starts individualized medicine consulting clinic

Mayo Clinic has announced a new individualized medicine consulting clinic for patients with serious medical conditions who have not found answers through conventional testing. The IM Clinic does not focus on research. Rather, Mayo reports, whole-genome sequencing will be used as a standard part of care by a team of 20 genomics-trained physicians. Genetic counselors will guide patients through the process. The IM Clinic startup period began about six months ago.

Circulation: The Post-Bulletin has a weekend readership of nearly 45,000 people and daily readership of more than 41,000 people. The newspaper serves Rochester, Minn., and southeast Minnesota.

Context: You have a serious medical condition, but the conventional tests fail to find an answer. You still have no diagnosis and no effective treatment. What do you do? Mayo Clinic has always been a destination for patients seeking answers. Now, Mayo is taking that concept to the next level with the public launch of its Individualized Medicine Clinic — at all three of its campuses, in Minnesota, Florida and Arizona.

News Release: Mayo Clinic Launches Individualized Medicine Consulting Clinic

Public Affairs Contact: Bob Nellis

WEAU Eau Claire
Mayo to make change to help avoid infections

There will be a change at a local hospital starting next week to try to avoid infections. Mayo Clinic Health System Eau Claire says it will start washing all critical care patients with a powerful germ-killing soap to prevent MRSA infections. It says currently it only uses the soap on select critical care patients, like people who have had heart surgery.  Registered Nurse and Critical Care Director Marguerite Paradris with the hospital says the germs they’re most worried about, are not actually that uncommon outside the hospital.

Reach: WEAU-TV is the NBC affiliate for much of western Wisconsin, including Eau Claire and La Crosse. WEAU is licensed to Eau Claire and its transmitter is located in Fairchild, Wisc.

Context: Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire says it will start washing all critical care patients with a powerful germ-killing soap to prevent MRSA infections. It says currently it only uses the soap on select critical care patients, like people who have had heart surgery. Registered Nurse and Critical Care Director Marguerite Paradis with the hospital says the germs they’re most worried about are not actually that uncommon outside the hospital.

“Those resistant organisms exist probably everywhere in our environment, and many of us probably have touched them or been around them. What happens is when you come to the hospital it’s when you’re the most vulnerable and those organisms can then cause infections in people who are in the hospital,” Paradis said.

A recently released study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found washing all ICU patients with the soap daily can help prevent MRSA infections, but the hospital says their change was already in the works before the study was released.

Public Affairs Contact: Susan Barber Lindquist

WQOW Eau Claire
Eau Claire man bikes, swims, and runs road to recovery after heart attack

Within the first five minutes of meeting 53-year-old Tom Draz, you’d probably discover he’s a seasoned athlete… But a year ago, his fast pace was faced with a shock. Tom says, “Last year, before the Eau Claire Half Marathon I was scheduled to run, I was swimming in the pool at the YMCA and started feeling really weak and tired.” After some persuasion from his wife, Geralyn, Tom went to the hospital where he learned he was having a heart attack…Amy Olson, a Registered Nurse, at Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, says, “Being a runner myself, runners tend to connect on a different level. So my heart went out to him knowing he had spent so much time training for such an event and not being able to do it.”

Reach: WQOW-TV is an ABC-affiliated television station in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The station broadcasts its channel 18 DTV signal on UHF RF channel 15. The station is owned and operated by Quincy Newspapers Inc., which also owns WXOW-TV in La Crosse.

Context: Our friends at Mayo Clinic Health System report on the Hometown Health blog, the lifelong runner and Eau Claire, Wis., resident was at the local YMCA getting in some last-minute training for a half marathon when he began to feel “unusually tired and had chest pain.” The pain and fatigue was such that it kept him from finishing his workout and forced him to make a trip to the Emergency Department at Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, where doctors told him he was having a heart attack. They stabilized him, but while recovering in the hospital the next day, Draz went into cardiac arrest. “One minute I was alive, and the next minute I was dead,” he told Hometown Health. Quick action by his nurses, who used a defibrillator to restore his heart rhythm, “got my heart beating again and saved my life,” Draz says.

Public Affairs Contact: Susan Barber Lindquist

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Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

May 31st, 2013 - 4:39 pm

 

 

May 31, 2013

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US News & World Report
What to Know Before You Glow
by Rachel Pomerance

It’s officially summer. You want to get your glow on, but you know better than to do it the old-fashioned way. In case you missed the memo, tanning is bad for you. Sure, the rays get you vitamin D. But so does milk. Even a so-called “baseline tan” is not OK, says Jerry Brewer, chair of dermatologic surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Plain and simple: Tanned skin equals DNA damage, he says. “Asking what’s a safe amount of tan is kind of like asking how much cyanide do you want in your breakfast.”

Reach: US News reaches more than 10 million unique visitors to its website each month.

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Sun Smart Campaign
KAAL
National Don’t Fry Day – Sun Safety Awareness

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Context: Have fun in the sun, but be sun smart. That’s the message two cartoon-style moles deliver to kids of all ages in new public service announcements released by Mayo Clinic as part of Skin Cancer Awareness Month in May. Melanoma is on the rise, particularly among teens and young adults. It can be deadly. In the public service messages, available for use on television, radio, online and other platforms, two moles — animal moles, that is — illustrate the importance of four, key skin cancer prevention and early detection tips…

YouTube: Mayo Clinic: Have Fun in the Sun, But Be Sun Smart – Skin Cancer Prevention PSA

News Release: Have Fun in the Sun, But Be Sun Smart

News Release: Mayo Clinic: Melanoma Up to 2.5 Times Likelier to Strike Transplant, Lymphoma Patients

News Release: Mayo Clinic Study Finds Dramatic Rise in Skin Cancer in Young Adults

Public Affairs Contacts: Sharon Theimer, Nick Hanson

KSTP
Mayo Clinic Experts Work with Schools to Fight Obesity
by Scott Theisen

The state health department says obesity is one of its most serious concerns in Minnesota. Twenty-five percent of adults are obese, and for kids 2 to 5 years old, 13 percent are obese; more are overweight… Mayo Clinic Dr. Esther Krych and colleagues developed the BMI screening material. They want to identify kids whose BMI is too high and educate parents. “Our goal is to try to stop the problem before it starts, and that’s really prevention,” Krych said.  

Reach: KSTP-TV, Channel 5, is an ABC affiliate serving the Twin Cities area, central Minnesota and western Wisconsin, the 15th largest market in the U.S.

Context: There’s a serious obesity epidemic in the United States and it’s a growing concern when it comes to children. Being overweight or obese as a child puts you at greater risk of being overweight as an adult and increases the risk of heart disease and diabetes. So, experts at Mayo Clinic are exploring ways to help prevent childhood obesity. One project has Mayo teaming up with school districts to add body mass index (BMI) screening to the standard kindergarten screening.  Esther Krych, M.D., is a Mayo Clinic pediatrician.

Public Affairs Contact: Dana Sparks

Star Tribune
As May fades to gray, we’re kind of blue
By Bill McAuliffe

It might be the end of May, but at one St. Paul tanning parlor, wintry blues are knocking on the door. “The ones that tan normally in the winter, they’re coming back,” said Chris Frank, owner of Perfect Tan in the Merriam Park neighborhood, where the gray May has helped boost business by 20 percent over last year. “They want that vitamin D. They’re saying they thought the longer days would help, but they’re really dragging.’’…The conditions aren’t quite enough to trigger seasonal affective disorder, a chronic condition tied to the short days and long nights of winter, said Dr. Katherine M. Moore, a psychiatrist in the Mayo Clinic’s Department of Psychiatry and Psychology. But the disappointments and the altered routines that have come with the cool and wet May have certainly been enough to make people feel, well, gloomy.

Reach: The Star Tribune Sunday circulation is 518,745 copies and weekday circulation is 300,277.

Context: Katherine Moore, M.D., is a psychiatrist in the Mayo Clinic’s Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, which is one of the largest psychiatric treatment groups in the United States. Highly skilled specialists provide expert care to adults, teenagers and children who have mental, addictive and emotional disorders.

Public Affairs Contact: Nick Hanson

Chicago Health
Growing Up with Tragedies

Terribly violent storms, like the one witnessed in Oklahoma this week, can leave lasting damages much more permanent than a shredded earth. This is especially so for children. Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health problem in kids and adults. Mayo Clinic Children’s Center anxiety prevention expert and psychologist Stephen Whiteside, Ph.D., offers tips to help conquer weather-related fears.

Reach: Chicago Health: Top Doctors & Hospitals offers expert insight into modern healthcare and lifestyle, the best practices and treatments, and more through engaging editorial and professional profiles. It is a resource for Chicagoans to advocate for their own care and an opportunity for medical institutions and practitioners at the apex of their field to educate the public. Chicago Health: Top Doctors & Hospitals is published by Northwest Publishing, LLC, a Chicago based media company.

Previous Coverage

Context: Violent storms — often accompanied by lightning, thunder, heavy rain, powerful winds and even tornado warnings — can be stressful for anyone, but severe weather can trigger much more severe anxiety, especially among children. Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health problem in kids and adults. Mayo Clinic Children’s Center anxiety prevention expert and psychologist Stephen Whiteside, Ph.D., offers tips to help conquer weather-related fears.

News Release: Thunderphobia: Mayo Experts Offer Tips to Help Children Conquer Severe Weather Fears

Public Affairs Contact: Nick Hanson

Twin Cities Business Magazine
Mayo Clinic to Build Sports Medicine Center
by Rebecca Omastiak

Mayo Clinic announced Tuesday that it plans to build a 22,000-square-foot sports medicine center to meet the demands for its growing sports medicine and rehabilitation practice. The Sports Medicine Center aims to provide both sports rehabilitation and training equipment and facilities and is part of the 100,000-square-foot, four-floor, Mayo Clinic Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center building project… “Mayo Clinic is able to serve athletes of all levels in a multidisciplinary environment that can manage the entirety of our patients’ needs,” Edward Laskowski, Mayo’s Sports Medicine Center co-director, said in a statement.

Reach: Twin Cities Business is a monthly business magazine with a circulation of more than 30,000 and more than 74,000 readers. The magazine also posts daily business news on its website.

Additional Coverage:
Pioneer Press
Rochester: Mayo to double up on sports medicine

Post-Bulletin
Mayo Clinic hopes to triple Sports Medicine Center numbers

MPR, KELOland S.D., Argus Leader S.D., KSTP, KARE 11, KTTC, BringMeTheNews, News Medical, FOX47, KAAL, Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal, News Medical , Post-Bulletin

Context: Mayo Clinic announced this week an expansion to its sports medicine practice to meet the growing regional, national and international demand for its expertise. The expansion is part of the 100,000-square-foot Mayo Clinic Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center building project, and is scheduled to open in spring of 2014. The Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Center is a global leader in sports and musculoskeletal injury prevention and rehabilitation, concussion research, diagnostic and interventional ultrasound, and surgical and nonsurgical management of sports-related injuries.

News Release: Mayo Clinic Planning Major Sports Medicine Center Expansion

Public Affairs Contact: Bryan Anderson

Green Bay Press-Gazette
Unusual medical condition gives Abe, his parents tough start to new life by Peter Srubas

Baby Abe’s sucking and breathing skills still aren’t what they should be, but the little guy once known as “the big boy of the NIC unit” at Mayo Clinic is giving every indication he’s eventually going to have a normal life, his doctor says. Abe, son of Emma and Mike Slowinski of De Pere, was born Feb. 11 and already has been through three major surgeries, thanks to an uncommon ailment called a congenital diaphragmatic hernia — that is, due to a flaw in his diaphragm, his stomach and intestines were up in his chest, shoving his heart to the wrong side and interfering with his lung development…“It happens in about one in every 3,000 births,” said Dr. Chris Colby, a neonatologist at Mayo Clinic’s Children’s Center in Rochester, Minn.

Reach: The Green Bay Press-Gazette is one of 10 daily newspapers within Gannett Wisconsin Media and has a daily circulation of more than 40,000 subscribers. Its web site attracts more than 337,000 unique visitors each month.

Context: Abraham Slowinski was born in Rochester after the family had received the diagnosis of him having an uncommon ailment called a congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Chris Colby, M.D., is a Mayo Clinic neonatologist at Mayo Clinic’s Children’s Center.

Public Affairs Contact: Kelley Luckstein

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Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

May 24th, 2013 - 1:33 pm

 

 

May 24, 2013

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Star Tribune
Rochester, Mayo Clinic celebrate $585 million windfall from the state
By Jennifer Brooks

Minnesota came up with the money — more than half a billion dollars — and now Mayo Clinic is keeping its part of the bargain. It won’t be going anywhere anytime soon. “It’s a great day to be a Minnesotan, a great day to call Rochester our home,” Mayo CEO John Noseworthy told a cheering crowd Wednesday in Rochester. He was flanked by Gov. Mark Dayton and legislative leaders, all celebrating the herculean effort that went into ramming the $585 million Mayo legislation through the Legislature in a matter of months.

MPR
Mayo Clinic celebrates state funding approval, but questions remain on expansion details
by Elizabeth Baier

Mayo Clinic’s proposed 20-year, $5 billion investment plan to make its flagship campus a “destination medical center” is closer to becoming reality.  The tax bill awaits Gov. Mark Dayton’s signature to become law, but Mayo Clinic, local and state officials are celebrating the legislative victory, which commits $327 million in state aid for Rochester, Minn.  Amid the celebration, questions remain about how exactly the clinic plans to expand and how local taxpayers will contribute to the growth in Rochester.  Hundreds of Mayo employees, local and state officials, even former Vice President Walter Mondale filled the lobby of the Mayo Clinic building in Rochester Wednesday, to celebrate what Mayo and government officials say is the largest economic development initiative in Minnesota’s history.

Additional DMC Celebration Coverage:
Star Tribune, KIMT, KAAL, KTTC, KARE 11, Post-Bulletin, MinnPost, Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal,

Other Prominent DMC Coverage This Past Week:
Post-Bulletin
Our View: Norton defied odds, Senjem defied party for DMC

MPR
Dayton hails results of session

Pioneer Press
Lawmakers sign off on Mayo vision

Pioneer Press
Mayo Clinic expansion plan calls for $400 million in state infrastructure support

Additional DMC Coverage:
Sioux Falls Argus Leader, Post-Bulletin, The Republic Ind., Post-Bulletin, Pioneer Press, MPR, KAAL, Star Tribune, Finance & Commerce, Post-Bulletin, Star Tribune

Destination Medical Center Website

Public Affairs Contacts: Bryan Anderson, Karl Oestreich

WYMT
Pikeville Medical Center joins Mayo Clinic Care Network

A major announcement for healthcare in the mountains on Thursday. Pikeville Medical Center and Mayo Clinic officials announced a collaboration to connect doctors with Mayo Clinic specialists. The announcement made at a news conference is one that hospital President/CEO Walter E. May calls the most important announcement in the hospital’s history… Dr. Stephen Lange with the Mayo Clinic Care Network explains, “Breakthrough research will be available right here in this community and less people will have to travel to get answers to their complex questions.”

Reach: WYMT is a CBS affiliate in Lexington, KY. The station serves the east-central part of Kentucky. WKYT leads in total-day and late-night news ratings.

Additional Coverage: Kingsport Times News, Huntington Herald-Dispatch, Lexington Herald Leader, Lane Report, WSAZ, Kentucky.com, Appalachian News-Express

Post-Bulletin
‘Humble anchorman’ speaks at Mayo Clinic commencement
by Brett Boese

In some ways, Tom Brokaw’s life came full circle Saturday morning in Rochester. In 1957, the self-described “whiz kid” visited the Med City to purchase the first suit of his life at Hanny’s. He then left for New York to participate on a game show opposite South Dakota Gov. Joe Foss, a renowned fighter pilot during World War II. Brokaw returned to Rochester on Saturday, nattily dressed, as one of the most recognized figures across the globe. During a commencement ceremony at Mayo Civic Center, he became the first recipient of an honorary degree from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.

Circulation: The Post-Bulletin has a weekend readership of nearly 45,000 people and daily readership of more than 41,000 people. The newspaper serves Rochester, Minn., and southeast Minnesota.

Additional Coverage on Tom Brokaw’s Commencement Speech: NBC Nightly News (fast forward about 1.5 minutes), KARE 11, Post-Bulletin, KAAL, KTTC, San Francisco Chronicle, WCCO, Yankton Daily Press S.D., WXOW Eau Claire, The Republic Ind., Tampa Bay Tribune, Duluth News Tribune, FOX 47

Context: Tom Brokaw, internationally known special correspondent for NBC News, received the first-ever Mayo Clinic honorary degree — the Doctor of Letters (Hon.D.Litt.) — in recognition of his career as a distinguished journalist and best-selling author, his significant contributions to the preservation of history through the arts, and his dedication to public service and exemplary service to Mayo Clinic. The first conferment of an honorary degree (honoris causa) by Mayo Clinic and the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine occured during a joint commencement ceremony for the graduating classes of Mayo Graduate School and Mayo Medical School on Saturday, May 18. During the commencement ceremony, 67 physicians and scientists will receive degrees from Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. (In all, 84 physicians and scientists will receive degrees, including those who are not attending the ceremony.)

Mayo Clinic’s College of Medicine educates medical and science professionals through five schools: Mayo Medical School, Mayo Graduate School, Mayo School of Health Sciences, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education and Mayo School of Continuous Professional Development.

Mayo Medical School was established in 1972 and has more than 190 students currently enrolled in its four-year M.D. program. Mayo Graduate School was established in 1989 and grants Ph.D., M.D.-Ph.D., and master’s degrees in 11 focus areas of biomedical research. The school has over 270 students.

News Release: Tom Brokaw to Receive Mayo Clinic’s First-Ever Honorary Degree, Address Commencement

Public Affairs Contact: Ginger Plumbo

Post-Bulletin
Mayo Clinic researchers seek tiny option against cancer
by Jeff Hansel

…But Mayo researchers say if they cut calcium uptake by the mitochondria, “sufficient cellular stress builds up, making the gold nanoparticles more effective in destroying cancer cells.” “Everybody’s dancing about with happiness about nanoparticles. But every nanoparticle isn’t the same,” said Dr. Y.S. Prakash, an anesthesiologist and physiologist at Mayo in Rochester. “Every kind of nanoparticle, whether it’s made from gold, silver, titanium, carbon, each one behaves differently. Not only does each one behave differently, it behaves differently in different cell types.”

Circulation: The Post-Bulletin has a weekend readership of nearly 45,000 people and daily readership of more than 41,000 people. The newspaper serves Rochester, Minn., and southeast Minnesota.

Additional Coverage Relating to Gold Nanoparticles: BreakThrough Digest, HealthCanal, Science Daily, Medical Daily, Science Newsline, Physorg Nanowerk

Context: Positively charged gold nanoparticles are usually toxic to cells, but cancer cells somehow manage to avoid nanoparticle toxicity. Mayo Clinic researchers found out why and determined how to make the nanoparticles effective against ovarian cancer cells. The discovery is detailed in the current online issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

News Release: Mayo Clinic: How Gold Nanoparticles Can Help Fight Ovarian Cancer

Public Affairs Contact: Bob Nellis

WCCO
Good Question: How Do You Keep Fear Of Storms From Becoming A Phobia?
By Jason DeRusha

The skies turn gray. The lightning cracks. Thunder booms. For most of us, a fleeting moment of fear is as bad as it gets. “I was petrified of tornadoes. Would almost pass out when the sirens went off,” said Kathy Lauer on my Facebook page. “Even when there’s not a storm, [kids are] checking the weather, they’re feeling nervous if it gets overcast. That’s different,” said Dr. Steven Whiteside, a Mayo Clinic child psychologist who specializes in anxiety.

Reach: WCCO 4 News is the most-watched newscast in the Twin Cities, in 5 out of 7 newscasts.

KMSP FOX Twin Cities
Tips for tackling ‘thunderphobia’ in children
by Lindsey LaBelle

Severe weather can trigger severe anxiety, especially in children, and the Mayo Clinic Children’s Center is offering ways for parents to confront the subject for a stress-free storm season. Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health problem in kids, and they often take their weather-related fears with them to school, hindering their concentration, Children’s Center anxiety prevention expert and psychologist Dr. Stephen Whiteside says.

Reach: FOX 9 News (WFTC) typically has good viewership for its 9 p.m., newscast, but lags behind its competitors at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. Minneapolis-St.Paul is the 16th largest television market in the United States with 1.7 million TV homes.  

Additional Coverage Relating to Storm Anxiety:
Health24, NBC News Pa., Hawaii News Now,  Doctors Lounge, News Medical, Newsday, HealthDay, KEYC Mankato, HealthNewsDigest

Context: Violent storms — often accompanied by lightning, thunder, heavy rain, powerful winds and even tornado warnings — can be stressful for anyone, but severe weather can trigger much more severe anxiety, especially among children. Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health problem in kids and adults. Mayo Clinic Children’s Center anxiety prevention expert and psychologist Stephen Whiteside, Ph.D., offers tips to help conquer weather-related fears.

News Release: Thunderphobia: Mayo Experts Offer Tips to Help Children Conquer Severe Weather Fears

Public Affairs Contact: Nick Hanson

HealthDay
Study Links Coffee to Lower Risk for Rare Liver Disease
by Mary Dallas

Just a few extra cups of coffee each month might help prevent the development of an autoimmune liver disease known as primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), a new study suggests. Investigators from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., found that drinking coffee was associated with a reduced risk of developing the disease, which can lead to cirrhosis of the liver, liver failure and biliary cancer. This association, however, does not prove a cause-and-effect relationship. “While rare, PSC has extremely detrimental effects,” Dr. Craig Lammert, an instructor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, said in a news release from the Digestive Disease Week annual meeting in Orlando.

Reach: HealthDay distributes its health news to media outlets several times each day.

Additional coverage: MedPage Today, Mirror UK, Business Standard, Philly.com, Big News Network, Science World Report, French Tribune, News-Medical, redOrbit, Healio, Health.com, Newsday, Winnipeg Free Press, Medical Daily, RTT News, Voice of America, Wall Street Journal, CBS Atlanta, Utah Peoples Post, Pentagon Post, Science Recorder, Highlight Press, Headline and Global News, Barchester Health, UPI, KMSP FOX9, Health24

Context: Regular consumption of coffee is associated with a reduced risk of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), an autoimmune liver disease, Mayo Clinic research shows. The findings were being presented at the Digestive Disease Week 2013 conference in Orlando, Fla.

News Release: Consuming Coffee Linked to Lower Risk of Detrimental Liver Disease, Mayo Clinic Finds

Public Affairs Contact: Brian Kilen

WEAU Eau Claire
Camp Wabi

The Mayo Clinic Health System and YMCA are once again sponsoring Camp Wabi for kids struggling with weight issues. Dr. John Plewa, Mayo Clinic Health System pediatrician, and fifth-grader Lucas Winkler of Durand, talk about Camp Wabi.

Reach: WEAU-TV is the NBC affiliate for much of western Wisconsin, including Eau Claire and La Crosse. WEAU is licensed to Eau Claire and its transmitter is located in Fairchild, Wisc.

Context: Summer camp means fun and friends. One camp sponsored by Mayo Clinic Health System and the YMCA helps kids who struggle with their weight make better health choices. John Plewa, M.D. is a Mayo Clinic Health System pediatrician.

Public Affairs Contact: Susan Barber Lindquist

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Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

May 17th, 2013 - 3:11 pm

 

 

May 17, 2013

Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News.

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Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations

National Geographic
What Gives Elite Everest Climbers Their Edge?
By Christy Ullrich

Elite climbers are testing the limits of the human body on top of the world’s tallest peaks. Bruce Johnson, a professor of medicine and physiology at the Mayo Clinic, accompanied the recent National Geographic 2012 team expedition to Everest to learn more about the effects of high altitude on premier athletes—and came back with some surprising research.

Reach: National Geographic – Online has more than 4.3 million unique visitors each month. National Geographic magazine has more than 4.3 million subscribers each month and is a general interest magazine that focuses on natural history, geography and wildlife. National Geographic covers science, technology, natural history, exploration, cultures, nature, and geographical regions.

Additional Coverage: Chicago Tribune

Context: Mayo Clinic physiologists were on Mount Everest in the spring of 2012, where they conducted research and collected data on extreme athletes making an ascent on the peak via two routes. The Mayo group monitored climbers from base camp for the duration of the climb. Their studies will provide knowledge that will help heart patients, as well as extreme athletes. The climbing expedition was funded by National Geographic and The North Face, with support from Montana State University. For background on the medical expedition, visit http://MayoCliniconEverest.com.

Mayo Clinic Advancing the Science Blog: Mayo Research Adds “New Chapter” to National Geographic’s Everest

News Release: Mayo Clinic Studies Climbers on Everest to Help Heart Patients at Home

Previous Coverage:
June 1, 2012 Weekly News Highlights

May 25, 2012 Weekly News Highlights

May 18, 2012 Weekly News Highlights

April 27, 2012 Weekly News Highlights

April 20, 2012 Weekly News Highlights

March 23, 2012 Weekly News Highlights

Public Affairs Contact: Bob Nellis

NY Times Well Blog
My Stroke of Luck
by Andrew Revkin

…There are other impediments to what’s called telestroke technology, including licensing roadblocks preventing doctors from practicing across state borders. You can learn more about research showing the cost-effectiveness of telemedicine for stroke and the hurdles to its adoption in my Skype chat with Dr. Bart Demaerschalk, the director of the Mayo Clinic Telestroke Program in Arizona and an author of an important 2012 paper on telestroke cost-effectiveness.

Circulation: The New York Times has the third highest circulation nationally, behind USA Today (2nd) and The Wall Street Journal (1st) with 1,150,589 weekday copies circulated and 1,645,152 circulated on Sundays.

Context: Bart Demaerschalk, M.D., is a neurologist based at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. Dr. Demaerschalk is director of Mayo Clinic’s Telestroke Program in Arizona.

Public Affairs Contacts: Jim McVeigh, Traci Klein

The New Yorker
The Walking Alive
by Susan Orlean

I am writing this while walking on a treadmill. And now you know the biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk… That happened not long ago, when I spoke to Dr. James Levine, the leading researcher in the marvellous-sounding field of “inactivity studies,” at the Mayo Clinic’s Scottsdale, Arizona, campus, and the most prominent of walking-desk partisans. I was already on my second mile of the day when I called him. He had just stepped out for coffee and was on his way back to his office, and he managed to open the door, put down his coffee, step onto his treadmill, and start walking without skipping a beat. “You’re going to hear a bit of an odd sound,” Levine said. “That’s my treadmill.”

Reach: The New Yorker is a weekly magazine with a circulation of more than one million readers. The magazine covers culture, art, fiction, business, politics, science and technology. It reports on current ideas and evolving issues, often with a touch of humor. Launched in 1925, it is published by Condé Nast Publications. Its mission is to report and reflect on the world at large with wit, sophistication and originality. The New Yorker’s website has more than 722,000 unique visitors each month.

Additional coverage: Times Herald-Record NY

Context: James Levine, M.D., Ph.D., is a Mayo Clinic endocrinologist who is often sought out by journalists for his expertise. Basing his techniques of non-exercise activity on years of Mayo Clinic research, he offers cost-effective alternatives to office workers, school children and patients for losing weight and staying fit. Author, inventor, physician and research scientist, Dr. Levine has built on Mayo’s top status as a center of endocrinology expertise and has launched a multi-nation mission to fight obesity through practical, common-sense changes in behavior and personal environment.

Public Affairs Contact: Bob Nellis

CNN
Jolie’s mastectomy highlights genetic testing company
by Aaron Smith

In an op-ed piece published by the New York Times on Tuesday, the Oscar-winning Jolie wrote that she decided to have the surgery based on the discovery that she has a “faulty” BRCA1 gene…Jolie explains that it’s possible for women to find out if they’reat risk for breast cancer through a blood test, however she doesn’t mention any companies by name. But Myriad is the only company that conducts tests related to the BRCA genes, known as BRCA1 and BRCA2, according to Dr. Judy Boughey, a breast surgeon with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Reach:  CNN.com has 74.2 million unique visitors to its website each month.

First Coast News
Friends to mastectomy patient: ‘Why would you get your boobs cut off?’ by Jeannie Blaylock

With all the news about Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy, women might be wondering, “Should I get tested, too?”…According to Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Edith Perez, a breast cancer researcher known around the globe for her work, a prophylactic mastectomy decreases the risk of breast cancer by 90 percent. Maegan Roberts, a genetic counselor at Mayo, said there are five red flags that you should consider genetic testing. She said the initial step should be talking with your family to find out if there is any history of cancer. 

Reach: First Coast News refers to three television stations in Jacksonville, Florida. WJXX, the ABC affiliate; WTLV, the NBC affiliate; and WCWJ, the CW affiliate.

My Fox Phoenix
Jolie’s admission brings validation to other women who did the same
by Kristen Keogh

Actress Angelina Jolie has gone public with a very personal health decision, writing in an op-ed that she underwent a double mastectomy earlier this year after testing positive for a gene linked to breast and ovarian cancer…The Mayo Clinic’s genetic counselor Katherine Hunt says only 5% to 10% of women with breast cancer have the gene mutation that McCulley and Angelina Jolie share. “Women who should consider genetic testing are women who’ve had a family history of breast cancer, any woman who’s been diagnosed with breast cancer under the age of 50 and any women who’s has both breast and ovarian cancer or has a family history of ovarian cancer,” says Hunt.

Reach:  KSAZ/Fox 10 is the Fox affiliate in Phoenix, Ariz.

AP
Women have new options for breast cancer surgery
by Marilynn Marchione

Treating breast cancer almost always involves surgery, and for years the choice was just having the lump or the whole breast removed. Now, new approaches are dramatically changing the way these operations are done, giving women more options, faster treatment, smaller scars, fewer long-term side effects and better cosmetic results. It has led to a new specialty — “oncoplastic” surgery — combining oncology, which focuses on cancer treatment, and plastic surgery to restore appearance…Nationally, about 25 to 30 percent of women get immediate reconstruction. At the Mayo Clinic, about half do, and at Georgetown, it’s about 80 percent.

Reach:  The Associated Press is a not-for-profit news cooperative, owned by its American newspaper and broadcast members. News collected by the AP is published and republished by newspaper and broadcast outlets worldwide.

Eau Claire Leader-Telegram
Breast removal not easy decision
by Christena O’Brien

General surgeons in Eau Claire have performed preventive double mastectomies — the same surgery Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie underwent earlier this year after being diagnosed with a gene mutation that increased her risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Dr. David Ciresi, one of seven general surgeons at Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, has performed the procedure on about five patients — all women — over the last five to 10 years.

Circulation: The Leader-Telegram is the largest daily newspaper in west-central Wisconsin. It covers 12 counties with circulations of 23,500 weekdays and 29,800 Sundays.

Additional Coverage Mentioning Mayo Clinic:
CNN, USA TODAY, Newser, WISTV S. C., Daily Journal Ind., ABCNews.com, AZ Family, Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, Arizona Republic, All Voices, Huffington Post, Live Science, Globe and Mail, WBUR (NPR Boston), Global News, Jamestown Sun ND, Saudi Gazette, KAAL, CNN

Context: Doctors in the Breast Diagnostic Clinic at Mayo Clinic sites in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota evaluate many people who have various breast conditions.  Breast care at Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire is provided at the HERS Breast Center.

Public Affairs Contacts: Paul Scotti, Julie Janovsky-Mason, Brian Kilen, Kelley Luckstein, Susan Barber Lindquist

Star Tribune
Tevlin: Mayo doctor’s breakthrough shows importance of scientific research

When a Mayo Clinic surgeon showed a short film featuring the drummer of the heavy metal band Extractus at the Minneapolis Convention Center last week, he probably wasn’t hitting the band’s target audience…That’s because the drummer, 22-year-old Justin Vigile, had been bedridden and dying with end-stage heart disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or thickening of the heart muscle, just months before the video was shot. The Mayo surgeon, Dr. Hartzell Schaff, played the video as part of his swan song as president of the association. But he didn’t do it to show off his pioneering surgery. Schaff was trying to highlight the importance of the unforeseen benefits of research, sometimes realized decades later.

Circulation: The Star Tribune Sunday circulation is 518,745 copies and weekday circulation is 300,277. The Star Tribune is the state’s largest newspaper and ranks 16th nationally in circulation.

Context: Hartzell Schaff, M.D. is a Mayo Clinic cardivascular surgeon who has appointments in Cardiovascular Surgery and Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. Dr. Schaff is just completing his tenure as president of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.

Public Affairs Contacts: Traci Klein, Nick Hanson

Star Tribune
Less medicine for overwhelmed patients
by Maura Lerner

It’s hard enough to live with a chronic condition like diabetes, says Dr. Victor Montori of the Mayo Clinic. But sometimes doctors make it harder, by piling on more tests and treatments than the patient can bear.  In an era of checklist medicine, Montori is trying to push the pause button. He believes that, before doctors pull out their prescription pads, they should have a heart-to-heart talk with patients who have complex conditions about how much medicine they really want to put up with. Montori, 43, has become an evangelist for what he calls Minimally Disruptive Medicine — also known as Goldilocks Medicine (not too much, not too little).

Circulation: The Star Tribune Sunday circulation is 518,745 copies and weekday circulation is 300,277. The Star Tribune is the state’s largest newspaper and ranks 16th nationally in circulation.

Context: Victor Montori, M.D. is a Mayo Clinic endocrinologist. Dr. Montori is interested in how knowledge is produced, disseminated and taken up in practice — and how this leads to optimal health care delivery and patient outcomes.

Public Affairs Contact: Nick Hanson

Pioneer Press
Call came at last for Oak Park Heights boy: 6-year-old’s heart transplant a success
by Mary Divine

The news that Cameron Ulrich’s long wait was over was announced on his CaringBridge page: “We have a heart!”  Cameron, the 6-year-old boy from Oak Park Heights who had been waiting for a heart since mid-October, underwent transplant surgery Wednesday, May 15, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester…Born with a rare heart defect, Cameron survived for more than six months in Mayo’s cardiovascular intensive care unit because of an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine — an ECMO machine — that functioned as a replacement for his heart and lungs.

Reach: The St. Paul Pioneer Press has a daily circulation of 208,280 and its Sunday newspaper circulation is 284,507.  Its TwinCities.com website had approximately 20.4 million page views (March 2013). Mobile page views on smartphones and tablet computers totaled more than 11.4 million in March 2013.

Additional Coverage of Cameron’s Heart Transplant: Bemidji Pioneer (AP), FOX47, Crookston Times, Mankato Free Press

Context: Mayo Clinic has one of the largest and most experienced transplant practices in the United States, with campuses in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota. Staff skilled in more than a dozen specialties work together to ensure quality care and successful recovery. Mayo Clinic, with transplant services in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota, performs more transplants than any other medical center in the world.

Public Affairs Contact: Ginger Plumbo

Post-Bulletin
Mayo Clinic researchers explain Alzheimer’s ‘treatment window’
by Jeff Hansel

…The key, say scientists at Mayo in Rochester, seems to lie in a “treatment window” of more than a decade, from the time the disease takes root in the brain until the moment a person first shows outward symptoms. “Our study suggests that plaques in the brain that are linked to a decline in memory and thinking abilities, called beta amyloid, take about 15 years to build up and then plateau,” Mayo radiologist Dr. Clifford Jack was quoted as saying in February, when the “treatment window” first was announced.

Circulation: The Post-Bulletin has a weekend readership of nearly 45,000 people and daily readership of more than 41,000 people. The newspaper serves Rochester, Minn., and southeast Minnesota.

Context: Clifford Jack Jr., M.D., Mayo Clinic Radiology, is developing and validating magnetic resonance imaging techniques for diagnosis and measuring progression of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders, as well as clinical and epidemiological research projects in normal aging, Alzheimer’s disease, and other dementias.

Public Affairs Contact: Nick Hanson

Phoenix Business Journal
Mayo Clinic headed south of the border
by Angela Gonzales

Mayo Clinic has gone south of the border. Mayo’s rigorous review process to become the first international member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network…Medica Sur in Mexico City has passed “Mayo’s history and bond with Mexico runs deep,” said Dr. Robert Ferrigni, medical director of the Mayo Clinic International Office in Arizona. “For years we’ve collaborated with some of the country’s pre-eminent doctors in caring for patients. This is one more way we can work with Mexico’s distinguished medical professionals to meet the health care needs of the Mexican people.”

Reach: The Phoenix Business Journal is one of 61 newspapers published by American City Business Journals.

Context: Mayo Clinic announced this week that Médica Sur passed Mayo’s rigorous review process to become the first international member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network. As a member, Médica Sur will offer medical services that enable physicians to interact, share and collaborate with Mayo Clinic physicians to continue offering patients the best possible medical treatment in Mexico.

Additional coverage: Post-Bulletin, La Informacion, El Porvenir, El Financiero, Economia Terra, Obras Web, Cronica, Estilo Medico, El Economista

News Release: Mexico City-based Médica Sur Becomes Mayo Clinic Care Network Member

List of Mayo Clinic Care Network Members

Public Affairs Contacts: Bryan Anderson, Soledad Andrade

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Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

May 10th, 2013 - 11:18 am

 

 

May 10, 2013

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CBS News
Study: Increased risk for young people and skin cancer
by Shoshana Davis

May is National Skin Cancer Awareness Month, and it’s important that everyone understand the risks. This disease not only impacts adults but surprisingly research is finding more and more young people are being diagnosed with skin cancer. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic report a sharp increase in skin cancer, specifically melanoma, among people in their teens and 20s…”There is an astonishing increase in melanoma amongst young people, eight-fold increase, the doctors’ research shows, in young women and four-fold for the young men,” said Dr. James Levine. Levine, a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, narrates the television spot and is a melanoma survivor.

Reach: CBS This Morning airs from 7 to 9 am Monday through Saturday in markets across the United States.

Previous Coverage

Context: Have fun in the sun, but be sun smart. That’s the message two cartoon-style moles deliver to kids of all ages in new public service announcements released by Mayo Clinic as part of Skin Cancer Awareness Month in May. Melanoma is on the rise, particularly among teens and young adults. It can be deadly. In the public service messages, available for use on television, radio, online and other platforms, two moles — animal moles, that is — illustrate the importance of four, key skin cancer prevention and early detection tips…

YouTube: Mayo Clinic: Have Fun in the Sun, But Be Sun Smart – Skin Cancer Prevention PSA

News Release: Have Fun in the Sun, But Be Sun Smart

News Release: Mayo Clinic: Melanoma Up to 2.5 Times Likelier to Strike Transplant, Lymphoma Patients

News Release: Mayo Clinic Study Finds Dramatic Rise in Skin Cancer in Young Adults

Public Affairs Contacts: Sharon Theimer, Joe Dangor

MPR
Growth continues at Mayo Clinic’s three campuses
by Elizabeth Baier

In his pitch to state legislators for $500 million to help Mayo Clinic with its $5 billion expansion, Mayo Clinic President and CEO Dr. John Noseworthy has repeatedly said if Minnesota does not provide a taxpayer subsidy, other states would be eager for Mayo Clinic to expand. Two of the most logical places would be Florida and Arizona, where existing Mayo Clinic campuses are growing steadily…Although the three campuses used to compete for money to expand, in the last four years that has changed, said Dr. William Rupp, vice president and CEO of the Florida campus.

Reach: Minnesota Public Radio operates 43 stations and serves virtually all of Minnesota and parts of the surrounding states. MPR has more than 100,000 members and more than 900,000 listeners each week, which is the largest audience of any regional public radio network.

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KIMT
City Shows Support for Mayo Project

Austin Daily Herald
Austin City Council to back major Mayo Clinic expansion

Post-Bulletin
Big Cleveland project drawing plenty of interest

Post-Bulletin
10 Lessons Rochester Can Learn from Cleveland

Post-Bulletin Letter, Post-Bulletin,  Post-Bulletin Letter, Post-Bulletin Politics, Prairie Business, Post-Bulletin Letters

Context: Mayo Clinic in Arizona celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2012. Mayo Clinic in Arizona spans two campuses, comprising more than 400 acres of land, and has added two research buildings on the Scottsdale campus and — on the Phoenix campus — a 244-bed hospital, a specialty clinic, housing for transplant and cancer patients and leased space for a child care center, a hospice and a hotel. Offsite family medicine practices were also added in Scottsdale and Glendale, Ariz. Mayo Clinic in Florida celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2011. The expansion into northeast Florida marked the first time Mayo Clinic established a location outside of Rochester, Minn. The Davis family of Jacksonville played a significant role in Mayo Clinic’s decision to open a satellite campus. Having received excellent medical care in Rochester, the family rallied support for fundraising and donated about 400 acres on San Pablo Road where the campus was constructed. Since opening its doors in Jacksonville, Mayo Clinic in Florida has grown from one four-story building to three main patient care buildings, a hospital, two research buildings and a collection of freestanding centers, administrative buildings and support facilities. 

Public Affairs Contacts: Jim McVeigh, Kevin Punsky

Florida Trend
Insights: Cancer care in Florida
by Amy Keller

Personalized Medicine – It took 20 years and an estimated $3 billion for an army of scientists to decode the human genome, the so-called “genetic blueprint” of human life. Today, the once laborious task of unraveling an individual’s genetic makeup can be accomplished in just a few weeks, at a cost of a few thousand dollars. That technological revolution is one of the driving forces behind the rise of personalized medicine, which seeks to tailor a patient’s care based on his own individual genetic makeup, says Dr. Alexander Parker, a nationally known kidney cancer epidemiologist at Mayo Clinic in Florida and the associate director of Mayo’s new Center for Individualized Medicine.

Reach: Florida Trend is a monthly magazine with a circulation of 52,000 provides business and political information on the people and issues in Florida. Florida Trend Online, with more than 17,000 unique visitors each month, provides editorial content designed to complement the coverage found in its print publication.

Context: Alexander Parker, Ph.D., is a cancer epidemiologist at Mayo Clinic in Florida and associate director of Mayo’s new Center for Individualized Medicine.

Public Affairs Contact: Paul Scotti

ABCNews.com
Mom’s Health Is the Key to Family Health
by Dr. Meera Dalal

With Mother’s Day around the corner, Dr. Richard Besser, chief health and medical correspondent for ABC News, hosted a Tweet Chat this week on maternal health…Participants included Mayo Clinic experts and passionate mom advocacy groups like Every Mom Counts and Save the Children…Read on for the highlights…What are biggest gaps globally in maternal health?  In the United States, postpartum depression affects many new mothers, while infection and severe bleeding are the main concerns in Asia. It is necessary to understand the unique conditions prevalent in each country in order to invest properly and effectively…Kelley Luckstein @kelleyluckstein RT @LizSzabo: RT @Jhpiego: T2: Expanded access 2 & improved capacity of skilled birth attendants keeps women alive.  #abcdrbchat

Reach: ABCNews.com is the official website for ABC News.

Context: Norman Davies, MBBS, M.D., Mayo Clinic Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Mary Murry, a Mayo Clinic mid wife, participated in a ABC News Twitter chat on maternal health this week. The chat reached more than 1.1 million people, more than 800 tweets were sent during the chat and close to 200 people joined the conversation.

Public Affairs Contact: Nick Hanson, Kelley Luckstein

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Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

May 3rd, 2013 - 3:13 pm

 

 

May 3, 2013

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US News & World Report
Have Anxiety? There’s an App for That
by Rachel Pomerance

Exposing new populations to mental health treatment provided the rationale for an app called Anxiety Coach, released last fall by the Mayo Clinic. Using the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy, the app guides users to face their fears and eventually become free of them. Select, for example, “talking in public,” and the app provides a to-do list of activities to tackle, such as purposefully mispronouncing a word in conversation or complimenting a stranger. “You gradually face your fears and learn through your own experience it’s unlikely to happen, and when things don’t go well, you can handle it,” says Stephen Whiteside, director of the Pediatric Anxiety Disorders Program at the Mayo Clinic and co-creator of Anxiety Coach.

Reach: US News reaches more than 10 million unique visitors to its website each month.

Additional Coverage: Detroit Free Press

Previous Coverage from April 12 Weekly News Highlights

Context: Children who avoid situations they find scary are likely to have anxiety a Mayo Clinic study of more than 800 children ages 7 to 18 found. The study published this month in Behavior Therapy presents a new method of measuring avoidance behavior in young children. “This new approach may enable us to identify kids who are at risk for an anxiety disorder,” says lead author Stephen Whiteside, Ph.D., a pediatric psychologist with the Mayo Clinic Children’s Center. “And further, because cognitive behavior therapy focuses on decreasing avoidance behaviors, our approach may also provide a means to evaluate whether current treatment strategies work the way we think they do.”

News Release: Children Who Avoid Scary Situations Likelier to Have Anxiety, Mayo Clinic Research Finds

News Release: Mayo Clinic Debuts Anxiety Coach App for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

Public Affairs Contact: Nick Hanson

Star Tribune
Mayo Clinic study finds explanation for postmenopausal belly fat
by Allie Shah

Scientists have long known that lower estrogen levels after menopause can cause fat storage to shift from the hips and thighs to the abdomen. Now, a groundbreaking study, co-authored by the Mayo Clinic, has determined why: Proteins, revved up by the estrogen drop, cause fat cells to store more fat…Even though the research doesn’t provide weight-loss solutions, it may bring a sense of relief to millions of middle-aged women who have been fighting an often losing battle against the dreaded “post-meno belly.” “It doesn’t mean you’re absolutely doomed,” said Dr. Michael Jensen, an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic and one of the study’s authors, “but it does mean it’s going to be harder, probably” to lose weight.

Circulation: The Star Tribune Sunday circulation is 514,457 copies and weekday circulation is 300,330. The Star Tribune is the state’s largest newspaper and ranks 16th nationally in circulation.

Additional Coverage:  MedCity News (Star Tribune)

Context: People who are of normal weight but have fat concentrated in their bellies have a higher death risk than those who are obese, according to Mayo Clinic research presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Munich. Those studied who had a normal body mass index but central obesity — a high waist-to-hip ratio — had the highest cardiovascular death risk and the highest death risk from all causes, the analysis found. A news release highlighting the study is here. Michael Jensen, M.D., a Mayo Clinic endocrinologist, is one of the authors on the study.

Previous Coverage: CBS This Morning

Public Affairs Contacts: Nick Hanson, Traci Klein

HealthDay
General Anesthesia Not Linked to Raised Risk for Dementia

Despite previous concerns, older people who receive general anesthesia are not at greater risk of developing long-term dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, a new study says.  The study, by researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., involved 900 patients over the age of 45 who had dementia, a disease that affects brain functions such as memory, language, problem-solving and attention. All of the participants were residents of Olmsted County, Minn., from 1985 to 1994…”It’s reassuring we’re adding to the body of knowledge that there is not an association of anesthesia and surgery with Alzheimer’s,” study senior author Dr. David Warner, a pediatric anesthesiologist at the Mayo Clinic, said in a Mayo news release.

Reach: HealthDay distributes its health news to media outlets several times each day.

Additional Coverage:
WCCO Radio
Mayo Study: No Link Between Anesthesia And Dementia

Philadelphia Inquirer, US News, Medical Daily, HealthCanal, Medical Xpress

Context: Elderly patients who receive anesthesia are no more likely to develop long-term dementia or Alzheimer’s disease than other seniors, according to new Mayo Clinic research. The study analyzed thousands of patients using the Rochester Epidemiology Project — which allows researchers access to medical records of nearly all residents of Olmsted County, Minn. — and found that receiving general anesthesia for procedures after age 45 is not a risk factor for developing dementia. The findings were published Wednesday, May 1, online in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Researchers know that some elderly patients have problems with cognitive function for weeks, sometimes months, following surgical procedures, says senior author David Warner, M.D., a pediatric anesthesiologist at the Mayo Clinic Children’s Center.

News Release: No Link Between Anesthesia, Dementia in Elderly, Mayo Clinic Study Finds

Public Affairs Contact: Nick Hanson 

WEAU Eau Claire
New PSA stresses how to stay safe in the sun

After our long winter, we all deserve to get out and soak up the sun! But doctors say there is such a thing as too much sun. According the Centers for Disease Control, one person dies of Melanoma every hour in the U.S and a growing number of those people are under 30. That’s why Mayo Clinic Health System started a new campaign today to warn people about the dangers of too much sun. “Have fun in the sun but be smart anyone can get skin cancer, even young people,” were the words used in the Mayo Clinic Health System PSA.

Additional Coverage: KEYC Mankato, HealthCanal

Context: Have fun in the sun, but be sun smart. That’s the message two cartoon-style moles deliver to kids of all ages in new public service announcements released by Mayo Clinic as part of Skin Cancer Awareness Month in May. Melanoma is on the rise, particularly among teens and young adults. It can be deadly. In the public service messages, available for use on television, radio, online and other platforms, two moles — animal moles, that is — illustrate the importance of four, key skin cancer prevention and early detection tips…

YouTube: Mayo Clinic: Have Fun in the Sun, But Be Sun Smart – Skin Cancer Prevention PSA

News Release: Have Fun in the Sun, But Be Sun Smart

News Release: Mayo Clinic: Melanoma Up to 2.5 Times Likelier to Strike Transplant, Lymphoma Patients

News Release: Mayo Clinic Study Finds Dramatic Rise in Skin Cancer in Young Adults

Public Affairs Contacts: Sharon Theimer, Susan Barber Lindquist, Micah Dorfner

KAET Arizona
Breast Cancer Collaboration
Host: Ted Simons

Arizona State University and Mayo Clinic and T-Gen have joined forces to fight breast cancer. The three have formed the Breast Cancer Interest Group or Big Group to help research some of the toughest breast cancers to treat. Joining us now is Dr. Karen Anderson, a member of the Big Group. She has a joint appointment at ASU and Mayo Clinic.

Reach: Eight, Arizona PBS is a PBS station that has focused on educating children, reporting in-depth on public affairs, fostering lifelong learning and celebrating arts and culture. Its signal reaches 86 percent of the homes in Arizona. With more than 1 million viewers weekly, Eight consistently ranks among the most-viewed public television stations per capita in the country. Eight is a member-supported service of Arizona State University.

Context: The Breast Cancer Interest Group (BIG), a collaboration between researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Arizona State University (ASU). The collaboration focuses on using the state-of-the-art genomics infrastructure and a high-quality breast cancer tumor biorepository. The focus of the group is to investigate molecular pathways to identify treatment targets for patients with triple negative breast cancer and endocrine-resistant breast cancer.  Mayo Clinic researchers are involved in many studies related to breast cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Mayo physicians often inform eligible patients about opportunities to participate in research studies and clinical trials related to advancements in the treatment of breast cancer.

Public Affairs Contact: Jim McVeigh

Arizona Republic
Cancer patients have more options, more decisions to make
By Ken Alltucker

When he was diagnosed with bladder cancer nearly five years ago, Louis Amaniera did exactly what the doctor ordered. He followed instructions, kept appointments, took prescribed drugs and readied his body for surgery. He had questions, but those questions never reached his lips…“In the past, (care) was based on what type of disease you had,” said Dr. Ruben Mesa, director of Mayo Clinic Cancer Center in Arizona. “Now it has moved much more to what we know about you and what we know about your cancer.”

Circulation: The Arizona Republic reaches 1.1 million readers every Sunday. The newspaper’s website Arizona Central, averages 83 million pages views each month.

Context: Ruben Mesa, M.D., is a chair of Hematology/Oncology at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. The Mayo Clinic Cancer Center is a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center with a multisite presence. Its three campuses — in Scottsdale, Ariz., Jacksonville, Fla., and Rochester, Minn. — give the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center a broad geographic reach, enabling it to serve diverse patient populations around the world. The campuses are also home to outstanding, internationally recognized physicians and scientists who collaborate across the full spectrum of cancer research, from basic biology to treatment, as they seek ways to reduce the burden of cancer.

Public Affairs Contact: Julie Janovsky-Mason

Star Tribune
Minnesota Legislature makes welcome progress on Mayo

 …The Legislature seems to have found a way to say yes to Mayo Clinic’s call for help in building what it calls a Destination Medical Center in Rochester. Similarly structured provisions to help Rochester pay for the public infrastructure demands of a major Mayo expansion have landed in the House and Senate tax bills. The House bill won floor approval last week; the Senate bill is expected on the floor today. Barring an unforeseen hiccup, Gov. Mark Dayton and a tax conference committee should be able to reach an accord with Mayo and its local government partners before the Legislature adjourns on or before May 20.

Circulation: The Star Tribune Sunday circulation is 514,457 copies and weekday circulation is 300,330. The Star Tribune is the state’s largest newspaper and ranks 16th nationally in circulation.

Context: On Jan. 30, Mayo Clinic announced Destination Medical Center (DMC), a $5 billion economic development initiative to secure Minnesota’s status as a global medical destination center now and in the future. The goal of DMC is to ensure that Minnesota and Mayo Clinic are destinations for medical care in the coming decades. This initiative is the culmination of a three-year study by Mayo Clinic to chart its future business strategy in an increasingly complex, competitive and global business environment.

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Public Affairs Contacts: Bryan Anderson, Karl Oestreich

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Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

April 26th, 2013 - 1:18 pm

 

 

April 26, 2013

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ModernHealthcare
Looking ahead, Noseworthy paves way for growth

Editor’s note: The Mayo Clinic is working to stay at the forefront of healthcare delivery and medical research in an era of retrenchment in public resources. Modern Healthcare Washington Bureau Chief Jessica Zigmond caught up with Mayo Clinic President and CEO Dr. John Noseworthy during a visit to the nation’s capital this month. They discussed the newest round of Medicare cuts, healthcare reform, big data and Mayo’s unusual effort to draw state support for a major expansion in its home base, Rochester, Minn. Here is an edited excerpt.

Reach: Modern Healthcare, published by Crain Communications, is a healthcare news weekly that provides hospital executives with healthcare business news. The magazine specifically covers healthcare policy, Medicare/Medicaid, and healthcare from a business perspective. It also publishes a daily e-newsletter titled Modern Healthcare’s Daily Dose. The weekly publication has a circulation of more than 70,000 and its on-line site receives more than 29,700 unique visitors each month.

Context: Americans want and deserve excellent health care — whether they are visiting a primary care physician for a checkup, having surgery or need more complex care — but many wonder how they and the nation will afford it. In remarks recently to the National Press Club, Mayo Clinic President and CEO John Noseworthy, M.D., outlined three steps health care providers and policymakers should take to create high-quality, patient-centered care at lower costs.

News Release: Americans Want, Deserve Excellent Health Care; Mayo Clinic CEO Outlines How to Create It
 
NPCLuncheonTranscript: Three Imperatives to Transform Health Care in America

Public Affairs Contact: Sharon Theimer

Modern Healthcare
50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare

John Noseworthy, Mayo Clinic president and CEO is No. 2 on the list. The honorees were chosen by readers and the senior editors of Modern Healthcare and Modern Physician for their leadership in the varied sectors of the industry, whether provider organizations, government agencies, associations, insurers or supplier companies.

Roll Call
Noseworthy: Not All Health Care Is Equal
By John Noseworthy, M.D.

In America, we’ve come to expect the best of everything. However, when it comes to health care, we pay more in this country than anywhere else in the world — yet the United States falls behind other countries on measures of health outcomes. Millions of Americans do not have or cannot afford the health care they need. We need to rethink how we pay for health care and develop differentiated payment models across the spectrum of primary, intermediate and complex care.

Reach: Modern Healthcare Roll Call is a source for Congressional news and information both inside the Beltway and beyond. Roll Call, which is published by the Economist Group, features reporting, analysis and columns as well as up-to-the-minute news of the legislative and political maneuvers that happen every day on Capitol Hill. Print circulation is more than 18,600 readers and its on-line site receives more than 202,000 unique vistors each month.

Context: John Noseworthy, M.D. is president and CEO of Mayo Clinic.

Public Affairs Contact: Sharon Theimer

Wall Street Journal
Mayo Clinic’s Upmarket Move
by Jack Nicas

The Mayo Clinic has big plans to join other top-flight medical centers in an expensive fight for well-heeled patients, but it faces a problem: Its sleepy hometown needs a face-lift. Mayo, the biggest private employer in Minnesota, is proposing to invest $3 billion to $3.5 billion over 20 years to transform its already big operation here into a “destination medical center.”… Mayo is in danger of falling behind such rivals in more attractive and accessible cities, said Bradly Narr, Mayo’s head of anesthesiology and medical director of the planned expansion.

Circulation: The Wall Street Journal, a US-based newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company, is tops in newspaper circulation in America with an average circulation of 2 million copies on weekdays.

Other Destination Medical Center Coverage:

Grand Forks Herald
OUR OPINION: Mayo Clinic’s expansion deserves support

Mankato Free Press Editorial
Our View: Revised Mayo plan is worth pursuing

Star Tribune
House wraps $338 million for Mayo Clinic into tax proposal

Twin Cities Business
Mayo’s Vision for Rochester

Post-Bulletin
Visitors appreciate Mayo Clinic more than you realize

MPR
Will Rochester pay more for Mayo expansion?

Star Tribune
Mayo boosts lobbying as funding bill advances

Post-Bulletin
Rochester officials want local DMC match scaled back

Additional DMC coverage: KARE 11, MPR, HealthLeaders Media, San Antonio Express, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Grand Forks Herald, FOX47, Pioneer Press, Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal,  Twin Cities Business, Crain’s Cleveland Business, Bemidji Pioneer, WCCO, KSTP,  Star Tribune, KAAL, KAAL, La Crosse Tribune, Seattle Post Intelligencer, FOX47, KTTC, Southernminn.com, Prairie Business N.D., Post-Bulletin (Opinion), Finance & Commerce, Post-Bulletin, Post-Bulletin (Opinion), Post-Bulletin (Opinion), Albert Lea Tribune

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Public Affairs Contacts: Karl Oestreich, Bryan Anderson

KIMT
Support for organ donation on the rise
by Jeron Rennie

There are over 100,000 people in the U.S waiting for a kidney and nearly 16,000 waiting for a liver. The good news for them is many people would be willing to donate theirs. The Mayo Clinic conducted a survey to see how people’s opinion changed on donating one of their organs. What they found was that compared to a 2001 study, the willingness to donate an organ to a stranger has nearly doubled. “85 percent of people were willing to donate their kidneys or a part of their liver to a loved one but almost half were willing to donate to somebody that they didn’t know which we were really surprised by,” said Dr. Julie Heimbach, Surgical Director of the Liver Transplant Program.

Reach: KIMT 3 serves the Mason City-Austin-Albert Lea-Rochester market.

Additional Coverage: HealthDay, Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday

Previous Coverage from April 19, 2013 Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

Context: Good news for anyone needing a transplant; a new Mayo Clinic survey shows that the public’s support for both living and deceased organ donation is increasing. Eighty-four percent of respondents said they would be very or somewhat likely to consider donating a kidney or a portion of their liver to a close friend or family member in need, and an astounding 49 percent said they would be very or somewhat likely to consider donating a kidney to someone they have never met, which is often referred to as altruistic or “Good Samaritan” kidney donation.

News Release: Mayo Clinic Poll Shows Half of Americans Would Consider Donating a Kidney to a Stranger

Public Affairs Contact: Ginger Plumbo

Phoenix Business Journal
Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix tops for teaching
by Angela Gonzales

Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix topped the list of Consumer Reports’ safest teaching hospitals nationwide. Its sister hospital in Jacksonville, Fla. was No. 2 on that list, followed by Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse, Wis., Brown Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo, Mich., Saint Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury, Conn., and Mayo Clinic-Saint Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, Minn.

Reach: The Phoenix Business Journal is published by American City Business Journals which owns more than 40 other local business newspapers.

Context: Mayo Clinic Hospital, located on the Phoenix campus, has 268 licensed beds with 21 operating rooms, an urgent care/emergency room, a transplant center and a full-service clinical laboratory. It also offers diagnostic imaging and noninvasive heart tests, and lung testing services. Mayo Clinic Hospital opened in the fall of 1998 and is the first hospital designed and built by Mayo Clinic.

Public Affairs Contact: Jim McVeigh

The Peorian
OSF Healthcare joins Mayo Clinic network

OSF Healthcare System, already one of the nation’s largest and strongest health care networks, got even stronger Friday when it became part of the Mayo Clinic Care Network. Becoming only the 16th member of the network will enable physicians in the OSF system, including OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, to work with the expert physicians at the world-renowned Mayo Clinic to bring patients the best possible care and treatment for whatever ails them, officials said during a news conference at St. Francis on Friday.

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Context: Mayo Clinic announced April 19 that OSF HealthCare passed Mayo’s rigorous review process to become the newest member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network. OSF, the fourth-largest health care provider in Illinois, is an integrated health system owned and operated by The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis. OSF provides state-of-the-art, compassionate care to more than 3.7 million people in the communities it serves throughout Illinois and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The Mayo Clinic Care Network represents non-ownership relationships. The primary goal of the Mayo Clinic Care Network is to help people gain the benefits of Mayo Clinic knowledge and expertise close to home, ensuring that patients need to travel for care only when necessary. The Care Network launched in 2011, and now has member organizations based in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota and Puerto Rico.

News Release: llinois-based OSF HealthCare Joins Mayo Clinic Care Network

Public Affairs Contact: Bryan Anderson

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Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

April 19th, 2013 - 3:42 pm

 

 

April 19, 2013

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Chicago Tribune
Mayo makes another push into Illinois
By Peter Frost

The Mayo Clinic, one of the most recognized names in health care, is continuing its push into Illinois with a new affiliation with OSF HealthCare, the fourth-largest health care provider in the state.  The partnership, announced Friday, comes about six months after Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo announced a similar arrangement with NorthShore Univeristy HealthSystem, which operates four hospitals in Chicago’s northern suburbs.

Circulation:  The Chicago Tribune’s average weekday circulation is more about 425,000. Average Sunday circulation is more than 781,000. According to the Tribune, its newspaper reaches more than five million consumers while covering 76% of the market.

Context: Mayo Clinic today announced that OSF HealthCare passed Mayo’s rigorous review process to become the newest member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network. OSF, the fourth-largest health care provider in Illinois, is an integrated health system owned and operated by The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis. OSF provides state-of-the-art, compassionate care to more than 3.7 million people in the communities it serves throughout Illinois and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The Mayo Clinic Care Network represents non-ownership relationships. The primary goal of the Mayo Clinic Care Network is to help people gain the benefits of Mayo Clinic knowledge and expertise close to home, ensuring that patients need to travel for care only when necessary. The Care Network launched in 2011, and now has member organizations based in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota and Puerto Rico. 

News Release: llinois-based OSF HealthCare Joins Mayo Clinic Care Network

Public Affairs Contact: Bryan Anderson

MPR
Rochester town hall focuses on Mayo Clinic expansion plan
by Elizabeth Baier

The hour-long forum focused on what Rochester needs to do to retain Mayo Clinic and improve infrastructure over the next 20 years. Mayo Clinic’s proposal is still making its way through the state Legislature…”We can handle the growth. This is a fantastic opportunity we have here,” Bier said. “I’m sorry I’m getting a little emotional, but we can provide jobs for people, my kids and your kids. We will have some bumps. But the clinic has been here; they’ve been a pretty good darn employer.”

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DMC Town Hall offered public a voice to the experts

Duluth News Tribune
Local view: Keep great care in our backyard

On Dec. 2, 2011, my cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., informed me just how grave my situation was. After five days of medical tests, I knew I would need to be placed on the UNOS, or United Network of Organ Sharing, a waiting list for a new heart. What I didn’t know — or expect — was that my condition, congestive heart failure, had worsened quickly, and I would need two life-saving transplants to survive: a heart and now a liver…

Read Jessica Danielson’s transplant story here

Star Tribune
Mayo proposal is one of necessary vision

Star Tribune
Mayo proposal: Hard to oppose, but for the laws of nature 

MPR, Mayo’s Saint Marys Hospital a priority for expansion

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Context:  On Jan. 30, Mayo Clinic announced Destination Medical Center (DMC), a $5 billion economic development initiative to secure Minnesota’s status as a global medical destination center now and in the future. The goal of DMC is to ensure that Minnesota and Mayo Clinic are destinations for medical care in the coming decades. This initiative is the culmination of a three-year study by Mayo Clinic to chart its future business strategy in an increasingly complex, competitive and global business environment.

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Public Affairs Contacts: Karl Oestreich, Bryan Anderson

Florida Times-Union
Mayo participates in Alzheimer’s study

Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida participated in a nationwide study that found minor differences between genes that contribute to late-onset Alzheimer’s disease in African-Americans and in Caucasians. The study, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, was the first to look at the genetics of a large number of African-Americans diagnosed with this common form of Alzheimer’s disease.

Circulation: The Florida Times-Union reaches more than 120,000 daily and 173,000 readers Sunday.

Context: Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida participated in a nationwide study that found minor differences between genes that contribute to late-onset Alzheimer’s disease in African-Americans and in Caucasians. The study, published April 10 in The Journal of the American Medical Association, was the first to look at the genetics of a large number of African-Americans diagnosed with this common form of Alzheimer’s disease (1,968 patients) compared to 3,928 normal elderly African-American control participants.

News Release: Gene May Help Identify Risk of Alzheimer’s in African Americans, Mayo Clinic Says

Public Affairs Contact: Kevin Punsky

Post Bulletin
Mayo survey finds growing support for organ donation

Mayo Clinic has conducted a survey that shows “the public’s support for both living and deceased organ donation is increasing.” According to Mayo, 84 percent of respondents said they would be very or somewhat likely to donate a kidney, or part of a liver, to a close friend or family member “and an astounding 49 percent said they would be very or somewhat likely to consider donating a kidney to someone they have never met.”

Circulation: The Post-Bulletin has a weekend readership of nearly 45,000 people and daily readership of more than 41,000 people. The newspaper serves Rochester, Minn., and southeast Minnesota.

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Context: Good news for anyone needing a transplant; a new Mayo Clinic survey shows that the public’s support for both living and deceased organ donation is increasing. Eighty-four percent of respondents said they would be very or somewhat likely to consider donating a kidney or a portion of their liver to a close friend or family member in need, and an astounding 49 percent said they would be very or somewhat likely to consider donating a kidney to someone they have never met, which is often referred to as altruistic or “Good Samaritan” kidney donation.

News Release: Mayo Clinic Poll Shows Half of Americans Would Consider Donating a Kidney to a Stranger

Public Affairs Contact: Ginger Plumbo

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New Study Finds Obese Employees More Costly To Companies Than Smokers

April 19th, 2013 - 10:27 am

A recent Mayo Clinic study found obesity is outweighing smoking in employer health care costs. “I think this study is really going to surprise a lot of people that it really is truly obesity that’s raising the health care cost today,” says Mayo Clinic Health System registered dietitian Diane Dressel.  A seven year study by mayo clinic tracked the health care costs for 30,000 current and retired employees. They found health care costs went up $1,400 more for obese employees compared to their non-obese colleagues. Obese employees even cost $600 more than smokers.

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