January 20, 2017
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 Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Emily Blahnik CNBC Important not to lose ground on ACA Dr. John Noseworthy, […]
Tags: "liquid biopsies", ACA, acupuncture, aging, alzheimers, Arizona Republic, baby powder, blood donation, Bloomberg, Bradly Prigge, breastfeeding, C. Difficile
November 1, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
November 1, 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 […]
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August 29, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
August 30, 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: 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare, anesthesiologist, Big News Network, biochemist, blood loss, BMJ, Boise State Public Radio, bone marrow transplant, Breast Cancer, breast cancer research, breast feeding, British Medical Journal
February 22, 2013
New Mayo Clinic protocol allows for MRI in select pacemaker patients
A new protocol at Mayo Clinic in Arizona allows select patients to have an MRI exam even though they have a pacemaker…”While it is likely that, in the next decade, MRI-conditional pacemakers will become standard, there is a large population of patients who in the interim may require MRI scanning,” says Win-Kuang Shen, M.D., a cardiac electrophysiologist and […]
Tags: Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Dr. Win-Kuang Shen, HealthCanal, MRI, pacemaker
June 26, 2012
Young Jacksonville Mom Lucky To Be Stroke Survivor
Jessica Cook didn’t know what was happening to her. The 33-year-old mother of three sons was at Ringhaver Park on the Westside on Sept. 24, 2011, doing her thing as a soccer mom when she began feeling terrible…At first look, an MRI of her brain didn’t appear to show evidence of a stroke, she said. […]
Tags: basilar artery occlusion, brain stem, Dr. Richard Hanel, Florida Times-Union, MRI, stroke
May 29, 2012
Eden Prairie Firm Wins Approval to Sell Prostate Imaging Technology
ProUroCare says its device can help doctors detect possible prostate problems and map changes to the prostate over time… Dr. Matthew Toffefson, a Mayo Clinic urologist who said he is not familiar with the ProUroScan, nonetheless agreed with Weiss that there is a “definite” need for better diagnostic technology. “Really, right now, we don’t have […]
Tags: Dr. Matthew Toffefson, MRI, prostate, ProUroCare, Star Tribune, ultrasound
March 15, 2010
MRIs May Detect Hidden Tumors in Breast Cancer Patients
MRI scans are more likely to turn up undiagnosed tumors in the breasts of postmenopausal women who already had cancer in their other breast, researchers report… “Our findings are not really surprising because we know that the risk of breast cancer increases as age increases,” lead investigator Dr. Johnny Ray Bernard Jr., a radiation […]
Tags: breast cancer patients, Dr. Johnny Ray Bernard Jr, hidden tumors, MRI