September 30, 2011
Study Finds Noncardiac Sources of Positive Troponin T Tests
Cardiac troponin T (cTnT) is not always cardiac specific and in some cases may lead to a false-positive diagnosis of cardiac injury, according to a study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The study was prompted by a case seen by a senior clinician at the Mayo Clinic in which a patient, who […]
September 30, 2011
Tax-funded clinical trials improve the quality of health care
Here, I’d like to talk about the other group — the university-based, collaborative, peer-reviewed questions we need answered to find better treatment for our most awful diseases…Even the Mayo Clinic can’t be expected to enroll a thousand patients with the same disease in any reasonable time, so universities collaborate. And, with commitment, local communities may […]
September 30, 2011
Kill returns, feisty as ever at practice
It appears Mayo Clinic doctors have found more effective medication for the most recent series of seizures that started affecting Gophers football coach Jerry Kill at the end of the New Mexico State game on Sept. 10. The seizures continued on a regular basis until he spent four days at Mayo Clinic, where they have […]
September 30, 2011
Mayo Clinic bets big on an experimental cancer treatment
The Mayo Clinic is embarking on a $370 million experiment into whether tiny proton beams are the best way to zap cancer tumors, with the resulting building projects creating hundreds of construction jobs along the way… While the projects are a boost to the economy, Mayo officials also acknowledge it’s still undetermined whether proton beam […]
September 30, 2011
Patents, Profanity Top Supreme Court’s Fall Docket
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on whether adults can curse on broadcast television and companies can patent a routine method of administering drugs, among business cases scheduled to be argued beginning Monday. Here’s the ones to watch: PROMETHEUS V. MAYO (Dec.7). The most anticipated business case of the session is probably […]
September 30, 2011
Community leaders working on ways to educate public about Safe Haven Law
Each fire department station in La Crosse has a kit full of everything a newborn baby would need, like a warm blanket and clothes. Firefighters used those items last Thursday when a mother dropped off her hour-and-a-half old newborn baby boy under the Safe Haven Law, which allows a parent to drop off their child […]
September 30, 2011
Death raises questions about how Illinois charity hospital’s last patients were transferred
A bedridden patient who predicted he wouldn’t survive a move from a now-closed Illinois charity hospital has died three weeks after his transfer to a nursing home, family and friends said Thursday… Transferring ventilator patients requires detailed planning, including making sure the new facility has similar equipment, said Steven Sittig, a respiratory therapist and pediatric […]
September 30, 2011
Altru breaks ground on wellness clinic
“This could be the first generation to see their children die before they do,” said Dr. Casey Ryan, president of Altru Health System. With those cheery words, Ryan kicked off the groundbreaking of the $13 million Altru Wellness Village Clinic (AWVC) that will be constructed next to the $25 million Grand Forks Park District’s Choice […]
September 30, 2011
Mayo Clinic plans med school in Scottsdale
Mayo Clinic will join forces with Arizona State University to develop a new $266 million medical-school branch in Scottsdale that could begin teaching medical students by 2014. Mayo Clinic’s plan to raise and spend millions of dollars is the latest example of Arizona’s health-care providers pursuing lucrative investments in new buildings, technology, education and research […]
September 29, 2011
Starting young with Alzheimer’s
At first it was little things — conversations forgotten, details neglected — that warned of the devastation to follow for John Frei. A project manager who built homes and then banks for a living, he was still in his early 50s and didn’t notice the changes. But his colleagues did. So did his three children […]