January 11, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for January 11, 2019
USA Today, A medical rarity: Two patients get back-to-back, triple-organ transplants by Ken Altucker — …Mayo Clinic Rochester has completed 100 multi-organ transplants, including four heart-liver-kidney transplants, said Alfredo Clavell, Mayo Rochester’s medical director of the heart transplant program. Clavell agreed that a new liver often allows patients to take lower levels of anti-rejection drugs […]
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October 5, 2018
The sisters are given their due in two-part Mayo Clinic creation story
Star Tribune by Matt McKinney The story of how Minnesota’s most famous hospital came to be was told in a two-part Ken Burns documentary last week, so a lot of people now know about the sisters. The lesser known partners in a vital partnership early in Mayo Clinic history, the Sisters of Saint Francis in […]
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September 28, 2018
Mayo Clinic CEO reacts to new Ken Burns’ documentary
FOX Business| Mayo Clinic President Dr. John Noseworthy discusses the new documentary put out by filmmaker Ken Burns about the inception of the Mayo Clinic and how technology has changed the health care system. Reach: Fox Business Network is headquartered in News Corporation’s studios in midtown Manhattan with bureaus in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco (Silicon Valley), […]
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September 7, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for September 7, 2018
Washington Post, Now we’re finding out you should do two kinds of stretching, slow and vigorous by Marlene Cimons — …Dynamic stretching, on the other hand, puts the muscles in motion repetitively, and “is essentially preparing your muscle in a gradually progressive fashion to do the job you want it to do,” said Edward Laskowski, […]
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August 30, 2018
Ken Burns Mayo film to premiere Sept. 10 in Rochester
Post-Bulletin, by Tom Weber Ken Burns’ documentary film about Mayo Clinic will have its world premiere Sept. 10 at Mayo Civic Center in Rochester. This will be the first time the full film, “Mayo Clinic: Faith-Hope-Science,” will be screened for the general public. It will air on PBS stations Sept. 25, with a rebroadcast Sept. […]
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August 17, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for August 17, 2018
Wall Street Journal, Troubling Rise in Pregnancy-Related Heart Problems by Sumathi Reddy— The number of women having heart attacks before, during and after deliveries increased by 25% from 2002 through 2013, according to a study published in July in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Around 4.5% of women who had heart attacks died, a high […]
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