Health, This Is the Best Diet for Women With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome by Emily Shiffer — …For starters, it helps to understand what exactly PCOS is. "Polycystic ovary syndrome is often misunderstood because there is no one test that gives the diagnosis," says Alice Chang, MD, endocrinologist at the Mayo [...]

Daily Mail by Sam Blanchard Researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota quizzed 1,744 women about their menopausal symptoms, stress levels and mindfulness. Women who scored higher on the mindfulness scale suffered less with irritability, depression and anxiety, the researchers found. Mindfulness did not make women less likely to be [...]

Albert Lea Tribune by Sam Wilmes On Jan. 21, 2016, former Albert Lea resident Dale Sanchez weighed more than 400 pounds, was diagnosed with Type II diabetes and informed his health was a life-or-death situation. Less than two years later, Sanchez has lost 200 pounds thanks to a change in [...]

Washington Post by Cathy Free After 21 years of marriage, Bill Henrichs and Mary Ziegler — once high school sweethearts — concluded that they were no longer a good match. The couple amicably divorced in 1995 and went their separate ways, but they continued to see each other at their [...]

KARE 11 by Danny Spewak The symptoms appeared in their fifties. Terri Houle couldn't read street signs on the road until it was too late to turn. Her sister, Sandra, couldn't differentiate one face from another. Both had been diagnosed with Fuchs' dystrophy, a swelling of the cornea that causes [...]

MPR by Angela Davis Twenty years ago, the sleep medicine program at Mayo Clinic did 18 pediatric sleep studies. Last year, it did more than 800. Although kids are still only a fraction of the sleep medicine patient population, it's been growing quickly as doctors have focused on the importance [...]

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 [...]

CNBC, — Paul Friedman, chair of cardiovascular medicine at the Mayo Clinic, joins “Squawk Box” to explain how emerging A.I. technology can help prevent and treat heart disease. Additional coverage: KARE 11, Healthcare Informatics, DOTMed.com, Fierce Healthcare Reach: CNBC is a 24-hour cable television station offers business news and financial information. The channel provides [...]

HealthDay by Robert Preidt The number of women in the United States who are getting the recommended screenings for cervical cancer is "unacceptably low," researchers say. In 2016, just over half of U.S. women aged 21 to 29 and less than two-thirds of women aged 30 to 65 were up-to-date [...]

Florida Times-Union by Matt Soergel She was 5 years old when her grandmother, Ada Salmon, told her that she was meant to be a healer. At the time, she didn’t really know what that meant, but the words from her grandmother, a member of the Choctaw Nation, stuck with her. [...]

KARE 11, A group of experts, including Mayo Clinic doctors, are making major recommendations to make hockey a safer sport at all levels. Reach: KARE 11 is the NBC affiliate in Minneapolis-St. Paul and reaches more than 600,000 people each week in its coverage area.  Its website has more than 1.5 million unique visitors each [...]

USA Today, Need a new diet this new year? Here's out to pick one and stick with it by Brett Molina — Focus on small changes at first: Angie Murad, a wellness dietitian with the Mayo Clinic Healthy Living Program, said the key to choosing a diet is making sure [...]

Argus Leader by Makenzie L. Huber Kandie, Kayla and Bryan David have a mutated gene in CCM2, which distinguishes their strand of disease from two others: CCM1 and CCM3. They've all gone through brain surgeries, which have relieved Kandie and Kayla from deficiencies. Bryan David still has issues with balance [...]

Arizona Pulse More than 82,000 refugees have been resettled in Maricopa County since 1978, representing countries such as Cuba, Iraq and Syria. This population faces disproportionate health disparities, largely due to geographic, linguistic and cultural barriers to care. Following an outreach trip to Nicaragua in summer 2017, Mayo Clinic Alix [...]

South Florida Reporter,  — The point of the new fitness guidelines is to just move, and anything counts. “A minute here, a minute there — whatever you can do, whenever you can do it is fine,” says Dr. Michael Joyner, a Mayo Clinic anesthesiologist. “And it adds up in a [...]

Post-Bulletin by Anne Halliwell Your New Year’s resolution can be a step toward a lot of things. But can it help you live longer? Dr. Robert Pignolo, Mayo Clinic’s chairman for the Department of Internal Medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, says it can. Genetic predisposition and [...]

Happy holidays!  Mayo Clinic in the News will be taking a week off.  We'll be back on January 4, 2019. Wall Street Journal, How pilates helps fight atrophy by Jen Murphy — Pilates can be particularly helpful for people with stability and motor-related issues, says Jane Hein, a physical therapist and lead [...]

Almanac We did an exit interview with retiring Mayo head Dr. John Noseworthy. Reach:  Twin Cities Public Television's "Almanac" program is a Minnesota institution. It has occupied the 7 o'clock time slot on Friday nights for more than a quarter of a century. It is the longest-running prime time TV program ever in [...]

KIMT by Annalise Johnson Using X-rays, a 3D mammogram creates a 3D image of the breast. Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea received a new breast tomosynthesis machine in November and began using it on patients this weekend. The machine has multiple benefits over standard screening tests alone, including [...]

First Coast News by Juliette Dryer Surgeons and radiologists at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville are using 3D printing technology to plan out surgeries before ever entering the operating room. Dr. Si Pham, chair of cardiothoracic surgery at Mayo Clinic, recently used a 3D-printed model to prepare for a complicated [...]

News4Jax by Mary Baer A St. Johns County man who served in the Marine Corps, then gave of himself as a kidney donor, is now on a mission to get others to help someone who needs a hand. While Nicholas Flores’ organ donation helped save another's life, he believes it [...]

First Coast News by Alexander Osiadacz A terrifying situation for a teenage athlete and his family as he collapsed, unresponsive at a basketball game. Jaylen Clausell has stacks of college letters and invitations from schools across the country. His first sport is football, but in March 2018 he was on [...]

HealthDay, AHA: Exercise After Heart Attack May Improve Survival — The study supports exercise as "one of the most important medicines people can take before cardiac events but, in particular, after them as well," said Dr. Randal Thomas, medical director of the cardiac rehabilitation program at the Mayo Clinic in [...]

Associated Press by Ralph D. Russo During his freshman season at Dartmouth, Seth Simmer was having trouble hearing the linebackers call signals from his defensive tackle spot just a few yards away. What was first diagnosed as an ear infection brought on by a severe head cold turned out to [...]

HealthDay by Steven Reinberg Hot flashes, a common curse in menopause, can be especially bothersome after breast cancer. But a new study suggests an existing medication may help. The drug is oxybutynin (Ditropan XL), long used to treat urinary incontinence. The study found that women taking the medicine had an [...]