April 4, 2013
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…Largely lost in all of the bad news, however, is the impressive and sustained influx of money into one of the area’s most important and valuable assets: the Mayo Clinic. In a discussion with The Arizona […]
Tags: corporate investment, Dr. Wyatt Decker, economic asset, local footprint, money influx, Scottsdale Republic
March 29, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
March 29, 2013 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 […]
Tags: Cancer, Dr. Christopher Moir, Dr. Eric Matteson, Dr. Robert Bazell, Dr. Sandhya Pruthi, genes, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic Children's Center, Minnesota, MPR, NBC, Ovarian Cancer
March 14, 2013
Heard on the Street: Mayo Clinic’s Business Accelerator tenants rolling along
At the start of this month, the new Mayo Clinic Business Accelerator was launched in downtown Rochester as a publicly-subsidized, low-cost space to nurture early start-up companies to help them grow into local job-generating firms. Right now, the nine tenants with signed leases are paying a total of $3,000 a month, or $1.20 per square foot, for […]
Tags: local jobs, Mayo Clinic Business Accelerator, Post Bulletin, public subsidy, start-up companies
February 25, 2013
Mayo Clinic offers hands-on experience in orthopedic surgery
The Mayo Clinic hosted 32 female students from local high schools on Saturday, offering a hands-on experience in orthopedic surgery…Dr. Mary O’Connor is the chair of the department of Orthopedic surgery at Mayo. She says this field isn’t even close to achieving gender balance. “By making these kinds of workshops and exposing daughters to opportunities, […]
Tags: Dr. Mary O'Connor, gender balance, hands-on experience, high school students, orthopedic surgery, WJXT
February 13, 2013
Research Begins At The Mayo Clinic On Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have been prompted to begin the first major study of a condition called “SCAD,” after a group of SCAD survivors from an online community reached out to the clinic for help…Sharonne Hays, MD of the Mayo Clinic tells CBS News,”About 70% of the cases or greater are women and of these women, 30% […]
Tags: Dr. Sharonne Hayes, Mayo Clinic, SCAD, Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection, WUSA
February 12, 2013
Teenager Raises Thousands For Fellow Heart Patients
Ten thousand dollars is a generous donation to the medical field no matter who it comes from. The doctors at the Mayo Clinic say it meant a little more, however, when they found out the donor was a 14-year-old boy about to go through open heart surgery. Despite Jack Long’s heart defect, he’s grown up […]
Tags: congenital heart defects, donation, heart valve repair, WCCO
February 11, 2013
Destination Medical Center: Mayo Clinic wants ‘livable city’ downtown
Dr. Brad Narr, medical director for the Destination Medical Community effort at the Legislature in Minnesota, says there are many things that can be done to help Mayo succeed and Minnesota’s success is tied to Mayo’s…We’ve raised our four kids here, we love this community, we can’t imagine a better community to raise a family,” […]
Tags: destination medical community, Dr. Brad Narr, legislature, Mayo Clinic, Post Bulletin