April 12, 2013

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

By Karl Oestreich

 

 

April 12, 2013

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CNBC
Health Care Costs and Challenges

Maria Bartiromo interviews Mayo Clinic President and CEO Dr. John Noseworthy on CNBC's Closing Bell.

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.

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MSNBC Morning Joe
Mayo Clinic president on how to improve health care
by LaToya Bowlah

Dr. John Noseworthy, president and CEO of the Mayo Clinic, joined Morning Joe on Tuesday to discuss his anticipated speech on improving health care before the National Press Club. “How do we make our health care system more efficient? How do we use technology to drive down costs?” Joe Scarborough asked. “Health care is fragmented, the quality is uneven around the country, and it’s unaffordable,” Noseworthy responded…The Mayo Clinic is trying to improve healthcare by having all doctors work together, said Noseworthy.

Reach: MSNBC provides in-depth analysis of daily headlines, political commentary and informed perspectives. MSNBC’s home on the Internet is tv.msnbc.com.

Post Bulletin
Mayo Clinic's CEO goes national with DMC, health reform
by Jeff Hansel

Mayo Clinic CEO Dr. John Noseworthy took to the national stage Tuesday to convince lawmakers to make further changes to national health-care policy. Noseworthy also laid out Mayo's own strategic plan for remaining a financially viable force in health care, using its 149 years of knowledge as an asset, in the speech to the National Press Club on Tuesday. He outlined the same points earlier Tuesday on the MSNBC show "Morning Joe."

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: 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 Tuesday 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

Public Affairs Contact: Sharon Theimer

Wall Street Journal
With Chronic Care, Less Can Be More
by Laura Landro

Victor Montori, who explores new methods of treating chronic illness, is generating a lot of discussion with one idea: that one of the best strategies, especially for patients with more than one chronic condition, is for their care providers to back off a little. Give them some breathing room. As an endocrinologist, Dr. Montori specializes in diabetes, one of the most prevalent and costly of chronic diseases. But as director of the Health Care Delivery Research Program at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., he focuses on innovative ways to improve care for all chronic illness, which taken together represents the leading cause of death and disability in the U.S.

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.

Context: Victor Montori, M.D. is a Mayo Clinic endocrinoloist. 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.

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Wall Street Journal
Losing Prospects

by Ron Winslow

More than 200,000 Americans each year undergo a major operation called bariatric surgery to treat obesity. But doctors say millions more might opt for treatment if it were less invasive and more patient-friendly…At the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn., Christopher Gostout aims to mimic the effect of a sleeve gastrectomy, creating the stomach tube by stapling off instead of cutting out a large portion of the stomach. All six patients treated so far have lost weight with minimal side effects, Dr. Gostout says.

Context: Christopher Gostout, M.D., is a physician in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Mayo Clinic which specializes in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the digestive tract and liver. It is the largest practice of its kind in the United States.

Wall Street Journal
Your Company Wants to Make You Healthy
by Jen Wieczner

Employer wellness programs used to mean just having a gym in the office or posters on the wall encouraging people to take the stairs instead of the elevator…Outcome-Based Incentives:…Pros: Experts say this model is effective at making people objectively improve their health: Participants in a recent Mayo Clinic study lost nine pounds on average when they received $20 per month for meeting weight-loss goals (or paid $20 when they didn’t); participants who didn’t receive incentives lost only two pounds on average.

Context: Weight loss study participants who received financial incentives were more likely to stick with a weight loss program and lost more weight than study participants who received no incentives, according to Mayo Clinic research that will be presented Saturday, March 9 at the American College of Cardiology's 62nd Annual Scientific Session. Senior study author Donald Hensrud, M.D., preventive medicine expert at Mayo Clinic and medical editor of The Mayo Clinic Diet, says obesity continues to be a major concern in the United States because extra weight contributes to many conditions, such as heart disease and diabetes.

News Release: Money Talks When It Comes to Losing Weight, Mayo Clinic Study Finds

Public Affairs Contact: Traci Klein

Star Tribune
Mayo Clinic: For kids, avoiding risks can be risky
by Jeremy Olson

But new Mayo Clinic research this month has yielded important insights on “avoidance” behaviors, showing they predict which children are more likely to suffer severe anxiety later on…Mayo researchers asked parents how their children responded to challenges. A year later, they found higher anxiety in kids whose parents said they tended to avoid things that scared them. “Kids who avoided tended to be more anxious, even after controlling for how anxious they were to begin with,” said Stephen Whiteside, director of Mayo’s child and adolescent anxiety disorders program.

Star Tribune
Anxiety? There's an app for that
by Jeremy Olson

The Mayo Clinic is reporting around 2,000 downloads of its Anxiety Coach App, which for $4.99 gives people instructions for managing their fears and a log for recording their anxiety levels when they confront their fears. A Star Tribune story examined the strong relationship in children between the avoidance of fears and the development of severe anxiety. For some people, exposure therapy is necessary to help people gradually confront their fears and reduce their anxiety in the process, said Dr. Stephen Whiteside, director of Mayo's pediatric anxiety disorders clinic in Rochester, Minn.

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: 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

Public Affairs Contact: Nick Hanson

Arizona Republic
Crow’s vision coming to pass

In a meeting with The Arizona Republic’s editorial board recently, Mayo Clinic administrators outlined their own breathtakingly ambitious plans for expanding the scope of Mayo research, education and health care. Mayo’s vision is to “touch 200 million lives across the globe by 2020,” according to its CEO, Dr. Wyatt W. Decker. ASU is an integral part of those plans.

Arizona Republic
Mayo Clinic Stands Tall As Important Economic Asset

Meaningful corporate investment in our area in recent years has been harder to come by than rain in the desert, leaving us thirstier for new development than most other major urban areas, parched by the resultant drought. . . In a discussion with The Arizona Republic earlier this week, Wyatt Decker, CEO of the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, offered an update on the center’s efforts to expand its local footprint.

Reach: The Arizona Republic reaches 1.1 million readers every Sunday. The newspaper’s website Arizona Central, averages 83 million pages views each month. azcentral.com receives more than 1.9 million unique visitors each month and is part of Republic Media which includes the Arizona Republic and 12 News.

Phonenix Business Journal
How to thrive in any economy: Wyatt Decker, CEO of Mayo Clinic Arizona

While waiting in the study of Dr. Wyatt Decker, I realized I was going to be interviewing a dynamic individual just by looking around the room. Tall bookshelves span three of the walls, and they are jam-packed with books, none of which has to do with medicine. The books were all about management and leadership. It turns out that, in addition to serving as CEO of Mayo Clinic in Arizona and vice president of Mayo Clinic, Decker also holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management and lectures around the world on topics including hospital management, team building, change management and leadership. He’s also a practicing emergency room physician.

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

Context: Wyatt Decker, M.D. is a Mayo Clinic Vice President and Chief Executive Officer at Mayo Clinic in Arizona.

Public Affairs Contact: Jim McVeigh

Florida Doctor
Local Legend: A Profile of Edith A. Perez, M.D.

Welcome to Florida Doctor’s Local Legend series, where we’ll introduce you to a different doctor at a local hospital each month. These doctors are pillars in their communities, raising the bar when it comes to patient care and innovative medicine…Dr. Perez is the Group Vice Chair for the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology, Deputy Chair at Large for Mayo Clinic Cancer Center and a Serene M. and Frances C, Durling Professor of Medicine, among many other things.

Circulation: Florida Doctor Magazine – North Edition covers all aspects of being a doctor in Northeast Florida, from professional growth to personal success. The magazine offers new insights about the healthcare industry with articles about what’s working – and what’s not – from doctors inside the Northeast Florida market.

Context: Edith Perez, M.D., is deputy director at large, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center. She also serves as director of the Breast Cancer Translational Genomics Program and the Breast Program at Mayo Clinic in Florida.

Public Affairs Contact: Paul Scotti

MPR
Mayo study: 'Smart' stem cells help heart failure patients
by Elizabeth Dunbar

Treating heart failure patients with a special type of stem cell can improve their condition, according to a new Mayo Clinic study published this week…Dr. Andre Terzic, who led the research and is director of Mayo's Center for Regenerative Medicine, said it is the first published study in which smart stem cells were tested on humans. "I think it's an exciting time where regenerative medicine is no longer science fiction but it's increasingly becoming considered as a viable option for our patients, in particular the patients [who] have many unmet needs that current therapies cannot address," Terzic said.

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: Translating a Mayo Clinic stem-cell discovery, an international team has demonstrated that therapy with cardiopoietic (cardiogenically-instructed) or "smart" stem cells can improve heart health for people suffering from heart failure. This is the first application in patients of lineage-guided stem cells for targeted regeneration of a failing organ, paving the way to development of next generation regenerative medicine solutions. Results of the clinical trial appear online at the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. "The cells underwent an innovative treatment to optimize their repair capacity," says Andre Terzic, M.D., Ph.D., study senior author and director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine. "This study helps us move beyond the science fiction notion of stem cell research, providing clinical evidence for a new approach in cardiovascular regenerative medicine."

News Release: Mayo Clinic: Cardiopoietic 'Smart' Stem Cells Show Promise in Heart Failure Patients

Public Affairs Contact: Traci Klein

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