Archive for December, 2011
December 29, 2011
Philanthropy News: December 29
Five Predictions For Biotech And Medicine In 2012 Forbes December 29, 2011 What’s really needed is a disruptive innovation, a computer system so good that it solves many of medicine’s problems. We’re probably not there yet. 5. … USC pursues aggressive fundraising effort despite hard times Los Angeles Times December 29, 2011 Checcio declined to […]
Tags: Philanthropy
December 29, 2011
Colleagues mourn 3 killed in helicopter crash
Two employees of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville who died in a helicopter crash are being remembered as caring medical professionals who loved their work…”He was a great teacher and mentor to the field of organ recovery and transplantation,” said Cheryl Martin, an organ recovery coordinator at the Mayo Clinic. “There are simply not enough […]
Tags: David Hines, Dr. Luis Bonilla
December 29, 2011
Helicopter crash victims will be honored in Rose parade
The three men who died Monday in a helicopter crash on their way to pick up a donor heart will be memorialized in roses. Their sacrifice so saddened staffers at a nonprofit organ procurement agency in Los Angeles that they decided to feature the men as part of their ninth annual float in the Tournament […]
Tags: David Hines, Dr. Luis Bonilla
December 29, 2011
Opinion: Our View: To remember those who perished in Florida tragedy, talk about organ donation
Some people might object to using the word “family” to describe any organization that has more than 56,000 employees, but we’re going to do it anyway. The Mayo Clinic family suffered a tragic blow on Monday when a helicopter carrying two members of a heart-transplant team went down in a wooded area in northern Florida. […]
Tags: David Hines, Dr. Luis Bonilla
December 29, 2011
Healthy and doing well: Bone marrow transplant from Europe gives Bemidji man new lease on life
At first glance, Lynn Schmidt’s job appears tedious. But to the 60-year-old, being back at work symbolizes winning a battle against cancer…Schmidt was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, in 2010 after results from a physical exam he took prior to donating blood showed low levels of hemoglobin, which is the main component of […]
Tags: Mrinal Patnaik
December 29, 2011
With New Year’s Eve just days away, the time for New Year’s resolutions is upon us. For some, one resolution might be giving up smoking. Ben Crenshaw, who’s a tobacco treatment specialist at the Mayo Health Systems Clinic in Sparta, says smoking is not just a bad habit, it’s a chemical reaction, which is why […]
December 29, 2011
Duluth Woman Waiting for Double Transplant at Mayo Clinic
…29 year old Jessica Danielson left her job and apartment for Rochester in early December when doctors told her she needs not only one, but two life–saving organ transplants. “I didn’t realize how sick I was,” Danielson said. “I was diagnosed at age 19 with restrictive cardio myopathy, and that led to congestive heart failure.” The diagnosis […]
Tags: Transplant
December 29, 2011
Gene behind fatal brain disorder isolated
A blood test could help diagnose a devastating brain disorder that is often misdiagnosed and ends in fatality. People who inherit the abnormal gene CSF1R always develop HDLS (hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids), a disorder of the brain’s white matter that leads to death between 40 and 60 years…’Given this finding, we may soon have […]
December 29, 2011
Fighters Fight: Jermain Taylor’s Return
It seems not that long ago Jermain Taylor was the future star of the middleweight division and one of boxing’s bright lights …“After Jermain really made an effort to rededicate himself to the sport, to get himself into physical shape as a fighter. After seeing that he had seen the best specialists in the world from […]
December 29, 2011
Mayo Clinic Surgeons Advance Esophagectomy Treatment
Surgeons at Mayo Clinic in Arizona have perfected a new procedure that offers a less invasive option in the treatment of one of the most severe cancers. A relatively new form of esophagectomy developed by Mayo Clinic physicians using the throat as well as small incisions to perform the procedure was recently documented in a […]
Tags: Dawn Jaroszewski, esophagectomy