Items Tagged ‘herbal supplements’
December 18, 2014
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 Laura Wuotila with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. This will be our last installment of our weekly highlights in 2014. We’ll be back in […]
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March 3, 2010
Cardiac Patients’ Herbal Supplement Use Deserves More Careful Investigation
Consider this clinical scenario: an elderly patient with strong risk factors for heart disease takes a daily aspirin as a preventive measure. Lately, she has become a little forgetful and begins taking Ginkgo biloba because she read in a magazine that the herbal supplement can improve cognition. Several months later she falls on a loose […]
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