Archive for January, 2013

January 31, 2013

Grand Meadow to Lose Mayo Facility

By Logan Lafferty

For folks who might need to seek treatment in Grand Meadow, they will soon need to drive outside of their community. The Mayo facility in town is closing in March, when their doctor of three decades retires…While it’s just a setback for Sean Waugh, there’s another group of people that will be affected even more. […]

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Tags: care center, facility closing, Grand Meadow, KAAL, Sean Waugh


January 31, 2013

Dirckx Family Counts on Mayo Clinic Connection

By Logan Lafferty

Greg Dirckx remembers his father traveling from Marshall, MN, for care at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. With four generations and his wife Judy’s Nebraska family using the clinic, Greg knows Mayo Clinic Health System in Cannon Falls is a community asset. “The convenience of having that connection to Mayo right here in our community, where we […]

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Tags: Cannon Falls Beacon, community asset, Mayo Clinic, travel


January 31, 2013

Hospital Error Rate in Minnesota Isn’t Improving

By Logan Lafferty

Minnesota’s latest annual report on adverse medical events shows that after nine years of owning up to mistakes, hospitals and surgery centers are still making the same rare but severe errors in patient care…But even rare events prompt change. Three of the embolisms occurred at Mayo Clinic hospitals in Rochester, and two involved staff members […]

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Tags: adverse medical, Dr. Timothy Morgenthaler, embolism, patient care error, Star Tribune


January 31, 2013

‘July Effect’ In Hospitals Is A Myth, Mayo Clinic Study Finds — At Least When It Comes To Spine Surgery

By Logan Lafferty

The “July Effect” — the notion that July is the most dangerous time to be a patient because of new, inexperienced residents at hospitals — is a myth, at least when it comes to spine surgeries, according to a new study from Mayo Clinic researchers…”We hope that our findings will reassure patients that they are not at higher […]

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Tags: Dr Jennifer McDonald, Huffington Post, July Effect, medical complications, spine surgery


January 31, 2013

Mayo Clinic Lays Out $6 Billion Package of Improvements for Rochester

By Logan Lafferty

The Mayo Clinic laid out plans Wednesday for an ambitious $6 billion, 20-year initiative that would support its effort to turn its Rochester-based hospital complex into one of the world’s top medical centers…”While Mayo Clinic is also evaluating plans for additional expansion outside Minnesota in future years, we believe Rochester can and should remain Mayo’s […]

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Tags: destination medical center, Dr. John Noseworthy, expansion, global headquarters, initiative, Star Tribune


January 30, 2013

Mayo Clinic Recognized as Center for Regional TB Training

By Logan Lafferty

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently recognized the Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic as a Regional Tuberculosis Training and Medical Consultation Center. The designation will make the Mayo Clinic responsible for developing new and enhanced training and technical support for public health and medical professionals in an 11-state area, News-Medical.net reports. Vaccine News Daily by Paul […]

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Tags: enhanced training, News-Medical.net, public health, Regional Tuberculosis Training and Medical Consultation Center, technical support, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vaccine News Daily


January 30, 2013

H1N1 Flu Vaccines Safe During Pregnancy

By Logan Lafferty

  The Norwegian study — supported by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the U.S. National Institutes of Health — involved a slightly different H1N1 vaccine from that used in the USA, says Gregory Poland, a professor and vaccine researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Norwegians added an adjuvant to their vaccine, which […]

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Tags: adjuvant, Dr. Gregory Poland, H1N1, immune response, New Parent Magazine, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, U.S. National Institutes of Health, vaccine


January 30, 2013

Botox Shots in Belly Won’t Help Weight Loss

By Logan Lafferty

They found that the injection slowed movement of food through the stomach but it did not cause weight loss, the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology reports. “On the basis of our findings, I would not recommend gastric Botox injections to people who want to lose weight,” said Mark Topazian, professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, who […]

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Tags: Botox injections, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Dr. Mark Topazian, risk, Times of India


January 30, 2013

HarvardxDesign: Q&A with the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation’s Gerry Greaney and Molly McMahon

By Logan Lafferty

Since its inception in 2008, the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation has become the poster child for internal innovation practices. The Center for Innovation focuses on engaging all of the stakeholders in the healthcare system, from doctors to patients to staff, and introducing the design process as a means of taking healthcare to the next level. We had the […]

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Tags: Core77, Gerry Greaney, healthcare system, internal innovation, Molly McMahon, stakeholders


January 30, 2013

Diet, Exercise Helps Fight Malignancy

By Logan Lafferty

Mike Herch was making breakfast at home one day in 2010 when his wife noticed something odd on the back of his leg… The survival rates for malignant melanoma have improved greatly over the years, said Dr. Jerry Brewer, a surgeon in the department of dermatology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn…“It’s significantly improved,” […]

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Tags: American Cancer Society, Dr. Jerry Brewer, malignant melanoma, melanoma, Quad-City Times, survival rate


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