October 18, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
October 18, 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 […]
Tags: ABC-15, Adderall, advisory board, Alyson Gonzalez, alzheimer's disease, Ambien, American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias, Brian Kilen, Bryan Anderson, Cancer, Cardiology, Carol Benson
March 1, 2012
New Colorectal Cancer Screening Test Shows Promise
Colorectal cancer is the second-leading cancer killer in the U.S.—more than 143,000 people will be diagnosed with the disease and almost 52,000 will die from it this year, according to National Cancer Institute estimates…However, an investigational, noninvasive, in-home screening test, developed by Exact Sciences in collaboration with Mayo Clinic, currently shows promise as a potential […]
Tags: Colorectal Cancer, Dr. Robert Hardi, Exact Sciences, gastroenterologist, investigational noninvasive in-home screening test, National Cancer Institute
February 10, 2012
Podcast: Dr. David Ahlquist on Advances in Colorectal Cancer Screening
David Ahlquist, MD, is a gastroenterologist and professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Ahlquist’s research interests include the early detection of colorectal and other gastrointestinal neoplasms, and the development of new tools to screen patients for these neoplasms in a noninvasive manner. Dr. Ahlquist is also involved in the identification […]
Tags: colorectal neoplasms, David Ahlquist, gastroenterologist, gastrointetinal neoplasms