Items Tagged ‘Medscape Today’
July 17, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
July 19, 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: 3-D printing, Action News Jacksonville, Action News Jax, Advisory Council on Alzheimer’s Research, alzheimer's disease, American City Business Journals, Angela Schraeder, AP, Arizona Daily Star, Associated Press, Barb Spurrier, Best Hospitals
March 21, 2013
Cognitive Outcomes Good With Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest
Patients surviving out-of-hospital cardiac arrest have shown better survival if treated with therapeutic hypothermia, and initial data now suggest that most of the patients who do survive after hypothermia have preserved cognitive function and are able to return to work. The cognitive function data were presented here at the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) meeting […]
Tags: American Academy of Neurology, cardiac arrest, Dr. Samuel Moore, Medscape Today, therapeutic hypothermia
March 15, 2013
Hospital Pet Visiting Programs Can Unleash Healing Powers
Mayo Clinic’s personal pet visitation policy has been in place for at least 20 years at its Minnesota campus and is part of its Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program, said program coordinator Barb Thomley. As is typical of hospital pet visiting programs, Mayo Clinic requires family and staff to obtain approval from the patient’s attending […]
Tags: Barb Thomley, Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program, Medscape Today, pet visit, pet visitation policy, pet visiting program
May 4, 2012
Mayo Clinic Biobank Begins to Elucidate Bipolar Disorder
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic aim to provide an important tool for the characterization and investigation of bipolar disorder through development of the Mayo Clinic Bipolar Disorder Biobank. The project, part of a large general biobank at the institution, aims to provide a resource for clinical, genetic, and epidemiologic study of bipolar disorder, with the […]
Tags: American Psychiatric Association, bipolar disorder, Dr. Manuel F. Fuentes, Mayo Clinic Bipolar Disorder Biobank, Medscape Today