Archive for September, 2012
September 28, 2012
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
September 28, 2012 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. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations USA […]
Tags: America's Best Hospital List, Beauty Project, Best Hospitals, Breast Cancer, Cardiology, diabetes, Dr. Alexander Parker, Dr. Deb Rhodes, Dr. Donald Hensrud, Dr. James Ingle, Dr. James Levine, Dr. Martha Grogan
September 21, 2012
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
September 21, 2012 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. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media […]
Tags: CBS This Morning, Chicago Tribune, Chris Norton, concussions, Dr. Donald Hensrud, Dr. Jennifer Roth Maynard, Dr. John Noseworthy, Dr. Michael Jensen, Dr. Michael Joyner, Florida Times-Union, innovation, inventions
September 14, 2012
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
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. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations CNN How to indulge […]
Tags: Alzheimer's drug, bapineuzumab, BodyGuardian, Choline C 11, CNN, doctor burnout, Dr Charles Bruce, Dr. Donald Hensrud, Dr. Ed Creagan, Dr. Fred Kusumoto, Dr. Issam Moussa, Dr. Leslie Sim
September 7, 2012
Mayo, TGen Close in on Personalized Gene Therapy
The right drug for the right person at the right time. The pioneers of medicine’s Genetic Age have long predicted that personalized drug treatments are inevitable as technology improves and costs plummet. Although genetic medicine so far has produced more hype than substance, there are signs that medical treatments based on an individual’s genes are […]
Tags: Arizona Republic, Dr. Mitesh Borad, genetic medicine, oncology, personalized drug treatments
September 7, 2012
This past Monday, a central Iowa couple was able to bring their twin babies home for the first time. One baby, the boy, was born healthy, but his sister has a serious heart defect that kept her hospitalized for nearly four months. In January, at 18 weeks of pregnancy Brad Weitl and Christina DeShaw discovered […]
Tags: Dr. Harold Burkhart, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, Iowa Public Radio, twin babies
September 7, 2012
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
September 7, 2012 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. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations NY […]
Tags: ABC News, Brad Weitl, Cancer, cardiovascular surgery, Channel 12 Arizona, Christina DeShaw, cyberbullying, Delores Weaver, diet, Dr. Ben Eidem, Dr. Harold Burkhart, Dr. Joseph Kaplan
September 6, 2012
Inland Doctors Not Immune to Burnout
A recent survey shows nearly half the nation’s doctors suffer from some form of burnout – in large part because of too much work. Burnout among U.S. physicians “is at an alarming level,” said Dr. Tait D. Shanafelt, the lead author of a Mayo Clinic study of 7,288 physicians published by the online edition of […]
Tags: Archives of Internal Medicine, burnout, Contra Costa Times, Dr. Tait D. Shanafelt
September 6, 2012
Ontario Woman Starring in U.S. Election Ad Warning of Dangers in Canadian-Style Health Care
A Canadian woman (Shona Holmes) with a tale of dangerously delayed brain surgery is back in the fray of U.S. politics, starring in a $6.3-million, anti-Democrat ad campaign that aims to show the perils of government involvement in health care just weeks before the American election… The resident of Waterdown, Ont., west of Toronto, sought […]
Tags: ad campaign, Canadian health care, National Post, Shona Holmes
September 6, 2012
Infections In Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients—Study Finds Way to Pinpoint Risk
A Mayo Clinic study finds that a risk score can be developed to predict a patient’s chances of having serious infections. The score uses information about how rheumatoid arthritis is affecting a patient, plus factors including age, corticosteroid use and the presence of other illnesses…”Using a risk score in this way can alert physicians that […]
Tags: corticosteroid use, Dr. Eric Matteson, Medical Xpress, rheumatoid arthritis
September 6, 2012
Weavers Donate $7 Million to Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville
Saying they were motivated by their commitment to better the Jacksonville community and improve the lives of its citizens, Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver have donated $7 million to the new multidisciplinary simulation center at the Mayo Clinic… “The age of simulation training is here, and studies show its enormous potential for improving the quality […]
Tags: Delores Weaver, donation, Dr. William Rupp, Mayo Clinic Multidisciplinary Simulation Center, Philanthropy, Wayne Weaver, WJXT News 4 Jax