February 14, 2020
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for February 14, 2020
PBS, Paddling and Peregrines — The Prairie Sportsman crew paddles the Minnesota River with Natalie Warren, one of the first women to canoe 2,000 miles from Fort Snelling to Hudson Bay, then climbs atop a Mayo Clinic building to see peregrine falcons that were brought back from extinction in the Upper Midwest. Today.com, What causes […]
Tags: 3D mammogram, aging, Amy Mattila, baby powder, Biogen, brain health, Breast Cancer, breast cancer vaccine, Cancer, CBT, CMS, coronavirus
January 26, 2012
Mobile lab to study health effects of sitting at work
The Minnesota Partnership has begun studying the health benefits of standing — instead of sitting — while at work. Evidence is growing that you’re more likely to die sooner than others who stand if you sit at a desk for hours at a time on a daily basis…Desks used during the partnership research are called […]
Tags: Dr. James Levine, Ergotron, healthy workplace, Mark Pereira, Minnesota Partnership, University of Minnesota, WorkFit
January 13, 2010
Klobuchar: Nation urgently needs business innovation
During a visit with Rochester business leaders on Monday, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar said there needs to be a “national call to action” to encourage business innovation — … Dr. Eric Wieben, co-director of The Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics, said the program’s success is a result of Mayo Clinic and the […]
Tags: innovation, Minnesota Partnership
September 15, 2009
Pawlenty urges no tax on medical device industry
The medical device industry got another high-profile advocate Monday — Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty — in opposing a new tax proposed in the influential Senate Finance Committee bill. The committee, led by Democrat Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, calls for a $4 billion a year tax on devicemakers to help pay for health care reform. […]
Tags: Minnesota Partnership
August 31, 2009
The first phase of the school’s ambitious biotech park opens in October near TCF Bank Stadium. Vance Opperman is a board director at TCF Financial Corp. and, come Sept. 12, he will watch the University of Minnesota play its first game at the new $288.5 million football stadium that the bank helped pay for. […]
Tags: biosciences, Minnesota Partnership