Items Tagged ‘Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa’
March 8, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for March 8, 2019
NBC News, Was there something ‘I missed’: Kentucky cheerleader’s sudden death leaves dad agonized by Farnoush Amiri — The sudden death of a 13-year-old Kentucky cheerleader on the day of a competition has shocked her community and left her father agonizing over whether he could have done more…Her father, Dan Schalck, said his daughter’s hands […]
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October 18, 2018
Florida Times-Union Cheers to Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa for his inspirational work to save lives in under-developed areas of our world. Quiñones, chairman of neurologic surgery at Mayo Clinic, is the founder of Mission: BRAIN, a nonprofit foundation that has done scores of complex surgeries — including procedures to remove brain tumors, reconstruct skulls […]
Tags: brain tumor, Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Florida Times-Union, Mission: BRAIN, neurosurgery
July 20, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for July 20, 2018
Today.com, Heart attack risk on the rise for pregnant women by A. Pawlowski — Expectant mothers, especially older ones, should watch for signs of heart trouble as their pregnancies progress and their babies arrive. A woman’s risk of having a heart attack while pregnant, giving birth or during the two months after delivery rose 25 […]
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June 22, 2018
UNF, Mayo experiment with rare 3-D microscope
Jacksonville Business Journal by Will Robinson Materials Science and Engineering Research Facility watched as dozens of dots scattered across their computer screen. Some dots balled up, others exploded. The dots were cancerous cells from a brain tumor recently removed by a Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon. The visual was made possible by an advanced microscope, the only one […]
Tags: Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Dr. Maarten Rotman, neurosurgery
March 16, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for March 16, 2018
New York Times, Black Cancer Matters by Susan Gubar — Given the mortality discrepancies, it is disturbing that African-Americans are underrepresented as subjects in cancer research, as are other minorities. According to research by Dr. Narjust Duma of the Mayo Clinic, only 6 percent of participants in clinical trials are black, although […]
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December 15, 2017
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for December 15, 2017
New York Times, Sleep vs. Exercise? by Karen Weintraub — Desiree Ahrens, a certified health and wellness coach at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said that for the time-starved, there are ways to sneak exercise into the day without heading to the gym or a formal exercise class. Running up the […]
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December 7, 2017
Real America with Jorge Ramos: Dr. Q’s American Dream
Fusion TV Jorge Ramos scrubs in for surgery with Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, or Dr. Q, a world-renowned neurosurgeon, as he tries to remove a brain tumor from a patient who will be awake the entire time. More Dr. Q on Real America with Jorge Ramos: Fusion TV Meet Dr. Q Fusion TV Watch Dr. Q […]
Tags: brain surgery, Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Fusion TV, neurosurgery
November 30, 2017
Doctor’s long journey from Mexican poverty to trying to ‘cure the world’
Florida Times-Union by Charlie Patton When Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa was approached last year about coming to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville as the William J. and Charles H. Mayo professor and chairman of the department of neurologic surgery, he was thinking about his legacy. Dr. Q, as he is known to colleagues, calculated he had already […]
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November 17, 2017
New Mayo Clinic tool helps map brain
First Coast News by Juliette Dryer A new device is helping doctors at the Mayo Clinic better map the brain during surgery on patients with epilepsy uncontrolled by medication. The device, known as the QT Grid, was developed by neurologist Dr. William Tatum and neurosurgeon Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa. During certain surgeries on people with epilepsy, […]
Tags: brain mapping, Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Dr. William Tatum, epilepsy, First Coast News, Florida Times-Union, Matt Derechin, QT Grid
August 18, 2017
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. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Emily BlahnikCNN Calling BS on BMI: How can we tell how fat we are? by […]
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