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Wall Street Journal
How to Grab Customers With Real-Time Streaming Video
by Dennis Nishi

The Mayo Clinic receives patients from around the country, so it has turned to Periscope and Facebook Live to show viewers what can be expected at the Rochester, Minn., medical campus. It does virtual tours of the clinic and Q&A sessions with Mayo physicians and scientists. Mayo even live-streamed a medical procedure performed on  Lee Aase, director of the clinic’s social-media network, and more than 3,000 people tuned in. The discussion was very active throughout the procedure and included a lot of appreciative hearts.

Reach: The Wall Street Journal, a US-based newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company, has an average circulation of 2.3 million daily which includes print and digital versions.

Previous coverage in March 4, 2016 Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

Context: Mayo Clinic live-streamed a colonoscopy on the mobile app Periscope on March 1. The broadcast was part of Mayo Clinic’s ongoing collaboration with Fight Colorectal Cancer to raise awareness of the importance of colorectal cancer screening. March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. “We’ve worked with Fight Colorectal Cancer on its One Million Strong campaign for the last three years to highlight the importance of appropriate screening,” says Lee Aase, director of the Mayo Clinic Social Media Network. “Our previous promotions included live patient events, a music video and a social media campaign. As we discussed plans for our 2016 promotion, I received a reminder for my colonoscopy, so we decided to take this opportunity to demystify the process by live-streaming the procedure on Periscope.” More information can be found on Mayo Clinic News Network, including the news release and a video package.

Contact: Joe Dangor

 

Washington Post
Adult coloring books are not just a fad. For some, they are a lifesaver
by Nora Krug

Using coloring books to help relieve stress “is like learning a new habit,” says Craig Sawchuk, a clinical psychologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. “New habits are best learned when you set aside routine time each day to focus,” he says.  Sawchuk offered a few tips on how to get into the habit of coloring and to make the most of your time once you do.

Reach: Weekday circulation of The Washington Post averages 518,700, and Sunday circulation averages 736,800.

Context: Craig Sawchuk, Ph.D., L.P., is a Mayo Clinic clinical psychologist. His research aim is to improve the treatment of anxiety and depression in primary care. Dr. Sawchuk and his colleagues are developing and evaluating mental health care delivery models that can help manage the growing need for effective behavioral and pharmacologic treatments in the primary care setting. The Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at Mayo Clinic is one of the largest psychiatric treatment groups in the United States.

Contact: Duska Anastasijevic

 

US News & World Report
8 Weird Ways Obesity Makes You Sick
by Anna Medaris Miller

Dr. Gregory Poland’s obese patients know they’re at risk for heart disease and diabetes, and they’ve heard their weight could doom them to an early death. But few recognize just how vast an impact obesity has on all their body systems – from their brains to their skin to their immune systems, which Poland studies at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. “The human body was designed to be elegantly redundant and interconnected,” he says.

Reach: U.S. News & World Report is a multi-platform publisher of news and information, which includes http://www.usnews.com and http://www.rankingsandreviews.com.

Context: Gregory Poland, M.D. is a Mayo Clinic infectious disease expert. Dr. Poland and his team within the Vaccine Research Group aim to improve the health of individuals across the world by pursuing challenges posed by infectious diseases and bioterrorism through clinical, laboratory and epidemiologic vaccine research.

Contact: Bob Nellis

 

Parade magazine
Cutting Down on Stress: Advice from The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living
by Rachel Weingarten

We all have far too much stress in our lives. But did you know that there are internationally recognized medical programs dedicated to cutting down on and managing the stress in our lives? I spoke with Amit Sood, M.D. from the Mayo Clinic Healthy Living Program and The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living who had some insights on the impact of stress on health.

Reach: PARADE magazine is distributed to more than 32 million people and claims to be read by more than 69 million people each week. PARADE magazine is distributed by more than 600 Sunday newspapers, including the Atlanta Journal & Constitution, The Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, the New York Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times & Post Intelligencer and The Washington Post.

Context: Amit Sood, M.D. is a Mayo Clinic physician in General Internal Medicine and the Cancer Center. Dr. Sood is editor of the  Mayo Clinic Handbook for Happiness and The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living.

Contact: Susan Barber Lindquist

 

Parade magazine
Cutting Down on Sugar: Advice from Dr. Donald Hensrud, Author of the Mayo Clinic Diet
by Rachel Weingarten

Like nearly everyone I know, I’ve been trying to figure out ways to cut back on certain unhealthy elements in my diet and life, with excess sugar and far too much stress being two of the worst offenders. Early this year I spoke with Donald Hensrud, executive director and author of The Mayo Clinic Diet who put our nation’s recent obsession with sugar into perspective. Since private consultations at the Mayo Clinic for health and lifestyle evaluations are hard to come by, I was thrilled to speak to two of their top doctors for advice on how to cut down on sugar and stress.

Reach: PARADE magazine is distributed to more than 32 million people and claims to be read by more than 69 million people each week. PARADE magazine is distributed by more than 600 Sunday newspapers, including the Atlanta Journal & Constitution, The Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, the New York Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times & Post Intelligencer and The Washington Post.

Context: Donald Hensrud, M.D. is a Mayo Clinic endocrinologist and editor of The Mayo Clinic Diet Book.

Contact: Susan Barber Lindquist

 

Star Tribune
Mayo survey finds 30-somethings less optimistic about aging
by Jeremy Olson

A first-ever national survey on attitudes toward health and aging by the Mayo Clinic found that Americans in their 30s are the least likely to believe they will age better than their parents. Some 56 percent of respondents aged 30 to 39 said they expect to age better, according to the Mayo survey released Wednesday. That was well below the levels of confidence expressed by Americans in their 40s (79 percent), 50s (67 percent) and 60s (72 percent).

Reach: The Star Tribune Sunday circulation is 518,745 copies and weekday circulation is 300,277. The Star Tribune is the state’s largest newspaper and ranks 16th nationally in circulation.

Previous coverage in January 22, 2016 Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

Context:  According to the first-ever Mayo Clinic National Health Check-Up, most Americans experience barriers to staying healthy, with their work schedule as the leading barrier (22 percent), particularly among men and residents of the Northeast. While work schedule is a top barrier for women, as well, they are significantly more likely than men to cite caring for a child, spouse or parent. “The Mayo Clinic National Health Check-Up takes a pulse on Americans’ health opinions and behaviors, from barriers to getting healthy to perceptions of aging, to help identify opportunities to educate and empower people to improve their health,” says John T. Wald, M.D., Medical Director for Public Affairs at Mayo Clinic. “In this first survey, we’re also looking at ‘health by the decades’ to uncover differences as we age.” More information can be found on Mayo Clinic News Network.

Contact: Ginger Plumbo

Today.com — The power of meditation: Growing research shows all the ways it's good for us by Meghan Holohan — “When you start exercising the brain with meditation, that particular part of the brain … [is] going to be stronger," says Dr. Amit Sood, a professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic, who was not involved in the study. Meditation reduces stress hormones, such as cortisol, while increasing endorphins, dopamine and other hormones that help to lower stress and slow aging, he says. Meditation also lessens inflammation, which damages and ages cells.

Florida Trend magazine — Expectations in Jacksonville by Mark R. Howard — In many ways, the city is blooming. Jobs are flowing from corporate expansions and relocations. Jacksonville is cementing its identity as a medical destination. Expansions at the Mayo Clinic include a Lung Restoration Center that can “heal” lungs donated for transplant, which often must be discarded because they’re too fragile…

WEJZ-Radio Jacksonville — Mayo Transplants — Interview with Dr. Andrew Keaveny at link.

ActionNewsJax — Nurse accused of abusing special-needs child loses license by Michael Yoshida — Action News Jax spoke with Bhide about the child’s injuries, which needed several skin-grafts. “When you have skin grafts it suggests that it’s a third-degree burn, so it’s the most severe type of burn that you can get,” Bhide said. The report said a reasonable caregiver should have been able to prevent these injuries. Dr. Bhide has a few suggestions for parents to make sure bath temperatures are right. One suggestion is to use baby bath thermometers rather than glass thermometers. She says they’re more accurate and come in shapes like ducks or frogs. Also, she said you can get a temperature regulator for the tap.

ABC 15 Arizona — Six heart health tips for moms — While heart disease is the leading cause of death in both men and women worldwide, more women than men die of the disease, according to Mayo Clinic, a nonprofit medical practice and medical research group based in Rochester, Minnesota with major campuses in Arizona and Florida. stress hormones is not just a condition of the elderly, so young moms also need to be aware of symptoms and risks unique to women.

Wall Street Journal — More Options to Treat Irritable Bowel Syndrome by Peter Loftus — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved two new drugs in the past year for the disorder, known as irritable bowel syndrome, which involves chronic diarrhea, constipation or both, along with abdominal cramping. It is estimated to affect about 12% of Americans, more often women than men and typically in people younger than 45, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Advisory Board Company — Physician burnout is becoming an epidemic. How do we stop it? by Nicole Clarke — One key takeaway from the Mayo Clinic study: The authors measure burnout using a simplified version of the industry standard Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), focusing in on emotional exhaustion and depersonalization. Analyzing paired data—physician surveys and matched payroll records—the authors found that on a 7-point scale of emotional exhaustion, each 1-point increase was associated with a 43% higher likelihood of physicians reducing their FTE during the next 24 months.

Doctor’s Lounge — Physician Leadership Training May Help Counteract Burnout — Physician leaders with good leadership qualities are more likely to have employees who are satisfied and do not show signs of burnout, according to a study published in the April issue of the Mayo Clinic Proceedings and a report published by the American Medical Association. The study authors asked physicians from the Mayo Clinic to rate their immediate physician supervisor for leadership qualities.

Becker’s Hospital Review — Why Mayo Clinic is picking up the check for physicians to dine together by Molly Gambel — Although an exceptional healthcare institution, Mayo Clinic struggles with an all too familiar and uncomfortable problem: "We have an epidemic of burnout in our ranks," President and CEO John Noseworthy, MD, said at the Becker's Hospital Review 7th Annual Meeting in Chicago. Burnout's emotional exhaustion, loss of meaning in work and feelings of ineffectiveness affect caregivers, their families, patients and the medical profession as a whole. "These doctors are impaired," said Dr. Noseworthy. "They're at risk for increased medical errors, turnover and suicide. They are at risk for decreased professionalism, patient satisfaction and productivity."

Twin Cities Business — Mayo Patent Watch: Joint Arthroplasty And MRI Alzheimer’s Plaque Detection by Don Jacobson — The Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, the nonprofit parent entity of the Mayo Clinic, is a worldwide research powerhouse that is assigned scores of U.S. patents each year. Mayo scientists and doctors are at the scientific forefront of many medical specialties, and the breadth of their activities is widely varied. As part of its healthcare industry coverage, TCB will take occasional looks at recent patents awarded to the Mayo Foundation and its inventors in a feature called Mayo Patent Watch. This is the first installment of series, looking at patents assigned to Mayo during the week of April 25-29, 2016.

KARE11-TV — Twin Cities woman helps others while waiting for heart by Adrienne Broaddus —  Lori Miller has been at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester waiting 142 days for a heart transplant. To help pass time, the Fridley woman crochets prayer shawls. Despite her need, she says now, is her time to give. Each shawl is donated to someone whose loved one gave the gift of life.

KARE11-TV — Depression and Bipolar Disorder center stage at Guthrie by Pat Evans — The Mayo Clinic is sponsoring a special event at Minneapolis Guthrie Theatre on May 5 and 6 titled "Science and Stories--Depression and Bipolar Disorder 2016." This innovative program is meant to address issues associated with stigma and understanding of psychiatric illness. This course will aim to improve understanding of the individual cost and challenges associated with depression and mania through insights provide by faculty and audience interactive participation.

Reuters — Jury still out on celiac disease screening, U.S. doctors say by Lisa Rapaport — While the blood test is simple, widely available and inexpensive, an expensive and invasive intestinal biopsy is typically needed to confirm the diagnosis, said Dr. Joseph Murray, director of the celiac disease program at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and an author of screening guidelines issued by the American College of Gastroenterology. “In my experience as a clinician, as well as some studies that have been undertaken, many of the individuals who are family members have symptoms, though they may not have complained of those symptoms to their doctors, sometimes because they did not realize they were an abnormality and sometimes because they were never asked,” said Murray, who wasn’t involved in drafting the USPSTF recommendations.

Reuters — The Great Courses and Mayo Clinic Jointly Create Health and Wellness Courses — The Great Courses, the leading global media brand for lifelong learning, is working with Mayo Clinic to create premium video courses in health and wellness. “By sharing our knowledge through video, we can broadly deliver Mayo Clinic’s health-care expertise to help people stay well or to find answers when they are ill,” said Paul Limburg, M.D., M.P.H., medical director for Global Business Solutions at Mayo Clinic. “Through these courses, people can access our physicians’ insights into current medical research and practice.”

MD Magazine — Michael Bostwick from Mayo Clinic: Are Cannabinoids a Viable Treatment Option for Neuropathic Pain by Adam Hochron — As more states across the country legalize marijuana in a variety of forms the usefulness of cannabinoids as a treatment method for people with neuropathic pain remains a question that many studies have explored. J. Michael Bostwick, MD, from the Mayo Clinic discussed some of the recent research on the topic and how it can move forward as the discussion on the benefits of medical marijuana continues.

Runner’s World — Can Sprint Training Take the Place of Longer, More Moderate Exercise? by Amby Burfoot …Also, as Mayo Clinic endurance exercise expert Michael Joyner, M.D., told Runner's World Newswire, “Higher intensity exercise might also suppress appetite more after running than a more modest-paced run.” Joyner and colleagues recently published a meta-analysis of SIT studies among humans, concluding, generally, that SIT training can produce positive physiological and health benefits where less vigorous training sometimes does not.

Sports Illustrated —  How to get your body used to working out in hot weather by Michael Joyner — About a week before the Boston Marathon I got pinged on Twitter by a sub-elite runner named Steve Sprieser who was worried that weather at this year’s Boston would be hot. Steve’s worries turned out to be true and the winning times were relatively slow this year: 2:12 for the men and 2:29 for the women.   From what I could glean, Sprieser had been training in cool temperatures in the Midwest and was not ready for the heat. His goal was to run the marathon in 2:35….Michael Joyner, is an expert in human performance at the Mayo Clinic, these views are his own.

Science magazine — Marijuana policy patchwork not based on science by Michaela Jarvis — As a physician and a scientist, J. Michael Bostwick values logic and scientific evidence. But when the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine professor first immersed himself in the topic of marijuana, he says he found very little of either. “I want to underscore my exasperation. When I set out to try to understand this topic, I couldn't find logic,” said Bostwick, who spoke at a 30 March Neuroscience & Society event cosponsored by AAAS and the Dana Foundation. “I couldn't find logic in the law, in the way the federal government was acting, or in the way the states were acting. It was very frustrating.”

STAT — Does skipping breakfast make you gain weight? by Sharon Begley — The Claim: Skipping breakfast makes you gain weight, while eating it regularly helps you maintain a healthy weight. The advice is inescapable. The blog for The Dr. Oz Show says that to lose fat, “you can’t skip breakfast,” while WebMD asserts “Lose Weight: Eat Breakfast.” No less than the Mayo Clinic says “regularly eating a healthy breakfast may help you lose excess weight and maintain your weight loss.”

The Verge — A Bitter Pill by Arielle Duhaime-Ross — Josiah Zayner’s gut was making his life hell — so he embarked on an extreme DIY fecal transplant… Of the nine biology and medical professionals I spoke with, every single one stressed that Zayner’s experiment could make him very sick. There was another thing that all the experts agreed on: the chances that Zayner would experience any benefit from the transplant were essentially zero. "We don’t have any evidence whatsoever that fecal microbiota transplantation helps cure other diseases," says Sahil Khanna, a gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic. Hohmann added that Zayner’s experiment was ultimately "naïve and poorly advised — on several levels.

Reader’s Digest — Imagine Being a Cancer Survivor—Then Getting a Second Type of Cancer All Over Again by Susan Ince — For example, in October, the Mayo Clinic reported that non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma survivors have around a 2.5 times greater risk of melanoma than other people. The earlier cancer in the bone marrow crowds out the forming immune system cells, creating the higher second-cancer risk, explains Jerry Brewer, MD, associate professor of dermatology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

Wired — No Harvard’s Mumps Outbreak Doesn’t Mean Vaccines are Bunk by Sarah Zhang — No vaccine is 100 percent effective, and scientists don’t know exactly why it fails in some fraction of people. With mumps, the vaccine is made from a live but weakened virus—which is a little different from the actual circulating virus that gets people sick. That’s good, because you don’t want the vaccine to get people sick. But the downside is that the immune system might whiff it. Gregory Poland, who heads Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Research Group, says his lab has actually tried to study what why the mumps vaccine sometimes fails and didn’t get funding. Mumps just doesn’t kill enough people to be a public health priority.

Daily Mail — Breast cancer boost after Angelina Jolie-style surgery that 'spares' the nipple and surrounding skin is declared safe by Jane Palmer — As 85 per cent of cancers originate in the milk ducts connected to the nipple, leaving them in place was thought only to increase cancer risk, particularly in those already vulnerable women who carry a faulty – and thus potentially fatal – BRCA gene. But now a landmark study led by surgeons at the world-renowned Mayo Clinic in America has proved that so-called nipple-sparing mastectomies prevent aggressive tumours just as effectively as the more radical option.

Medscape — Gene Therapy Stabilizes Disease in Cerebral ALD by Megan Brooks —Autologous hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) gene therapy may offer a safe and effective alternative to allogeneic bone marrow transplant for patients with cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy, according to interim results of a phase 2/3 study..."These are clearly exciting and promising results," Brendan Lanpher, MD, medical geneticist at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, who wasn't involved in the study, told Medscape Medical News.

Employee Benefit News — Partnership facilitates research on healthier indoor environments by Sheryl Smolkin — A recent partnership between the Mayo Clinic and Delos, a company that consults with employers on healthier indoor environments, will allow researchers to determine in a controlled way how factors such as air quality, lighting, sound and work station ergonomics can affect employee health and productivity. The companies have built the Well Living Lab, a 6,000 square-foot building at Mayo’s campus in Rochester, Minnesota, with six experimental modules that can be formed into a variety of indoor spaces, including an open-plan or closed-off office space.

Healthcare Design — All Is Well: Designed For Living by Peter G. Smith and Jennifer Stukenberg — The vision for Mayo Clinic’s Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center in Rochester, Minn., is a destination for personal well-being, reflection, and exploration. Expanding upon the success of an existing wellness center designed in 2006 for employees, the four-story addition, opened in 2014 and designed by BWBR, extends its reach to the community at large. The center provides guests with a personal and individualized journey that links long-term well-being to healthy behaviors. The program begins with a health assessment and adds physical activity, nutrition, and resiliency (spiritual awareness, plus stress reduction and management) to help users map an attainable and sustainable path to better health.

Post Bulletin — It's time to talk by Matthew Stolle — Tap experts in a given field. Give them a starkly unadorned stage to tell their story or propound a powerful idea. Keep the talks short and sweet so people don't become bored and drift off. And voila! Such has been the recipe that has made Ted Talks a global phenomenon. Now Rochester, for the first time, will have a local version of it, TedxZumbroRiver, featuring both national and regional experts in business. psychology, science, entertainment, medicine, comedy and art. The event is Thursday, May 5, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Autumn Ridge Church, 3611 Salem Road SW, Rochester. Speakers include: Victor Montori, a professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic; Jim Maher, a scientist at Mayo Clinic and professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology…

Post Bulletin — Mayo tech program builds global connections by Andrew Setterholm — Mayo Clinic this week invited representatives from five international medical technology companies for a first-of-its kind program focused on commercializing innovations and intellectual property coined at the clinic. The Mayo Clinic Global Medical Business Immersion Program this week hosted companies from Brazil, Canada, Israel, the Netherlands and Scotland for a week of collaboration with Mayo physicians and business leaders. The program is under the direction of Mayo Clinic Ventures, the arm of Mayo charged with technology transfer.  Additional coverage: Bloomberg

KIMT-TV — Mayo Clinic Doctor releases book about menopause by DeeDee Stiepan — There are a lot of resources available to guide women through different changes when it comes to their health; from pre teen puberty to information about books for Mothers to be. But Stephanie Faubion, M.D. Mayo Clinics Director of the Women’s Clinic and Office of Women’s Health, there weren’t as many options for women going through menopause. Dr. Faubion explains that she was growing a bit frustrated with the lack of reliable options for women to get questions answered about menopause. That was about two years ago, and on Monday she released a book she wrote on the topic.

Allergic Living magazine — Celiac’s Evolution: The Mind-Boggling Rise of Non-Gut Symptoms by Lisa Fitterman …Yet understanding takes effort with this chameleon of a disease. The very terms “classic” or “typical” are difficult to use when it comes to celiac symptoms, according to Mayo Clinic expert Dr. Joseph Murray. The symptoms are simply that diverse. The Minnesota-based gastroenterologist told Allergic Living that the only sure things are that the disease is genetic and caused by the immune system’s response to the presence of gluten. “And despite it running in families, there is no good way to predict who is going to get which symptoms,” he says. “I have patients who are identical twins, for goodness sakes. One was diagnosed early in life with gut problems while the other developed dermatitis herpetiformis (the unsightly skin rash) much later on. “It’s like, ‘OK, how did that happen?’”

Des Moines Register — Medicaid shift brings lots of hassles, few catastrophes by Tony Leys — Medicaid recipient Kathy Stangl, of Des Moines, is one of many who have reported hassles trying to arrange rides to appointments under the new managed-care system. But her biggest concern involves whether she can continue seeing a specialist at the famed Mayo Clinic hospital complex in Rochester, Minn. Stangl has been unable to get a straight answer about whether she can continue seeing her Mayo physicians, as her Des Moines doctor recommends. At one point, she said, a representative from AmeriHealth Caritas told her the managed-care company had identified a medical professional in Des Moines who could help her. The listing was for a provider at Mercy Medical Center, who wound up being a respiratory therapist, not a physician — and the woman no longer even works at Mercy, Stangl said.

Mankato Free Press — Steps to prevent skin cancer by Kevin Cockerill, M.D. — Leading medical experts, including Mayo Clinic, recommend the following for preventing skin cancer… Avoid the sun during 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., which are the peak hours of sun strength in North America, even in the winter and on cloudy days. Wear sunscreen — at least SPF 15 — throughout the entire year. Re-apply sunscreen every two hours or more frequently if you’re swimming or sweating.

Mankato Free Press — Opioid death rates not yet hitting close to home by Brian Arola — Even if south-central Minnesota isn’t experiencing the opioid epidemics seen elsewhere in the country and state, health officials say plenty can still be done to keep the problem from compounding. For the average citizen, that means ridding themselves of leftover pain medication, said Dr. Joel Moore, operations manager for pharmacy services with Mayo Clinic Health System. “The key thing is once you’re done with the acute pain management, get them out of your medicine cabinet and destroyed,” he said.

Mankato Times — Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato donates more than 3,300 items to CADA by Joe Steck — The Community Connection Committee at Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato held a collection drive for the Committee Against Domestic Abuse (CADA) April 1-18. CADA is a nonprofit organization that provides support to women and children who have been victims of domestic violence by providing safety, shelter and education at times of great need. The donations ensure those at the CADA house in Mankato have necessities as many often are forced to leave all their belongings behind to find safety.

St. Peter Herald — Mayo Clinic Health System offers free, eight-week grief group by Debbie Zimmerman — Mayo Clinic Health System Hospice invites individuals and families who have experienced the loss of a loved one to attend Journey Through Grief, a no-cost, eight-week grief support group. The weekly meetings begin May 12 and take place on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to noon at VINE Faith in Action, 421 E. Hickory St. in Mankato.

Albert Lea Tribune — Community health needs survey sent — Freeborn County Public Health and Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea and Austin are conducting a Community Health Needs Assessment within Freeborn County during the next few weeks. Households chosen at random will be asked to assign one adult to complete and return the mail survey that includes questions about their health, health habits and factors that impact their quality of life. MCHS and Freeborn County Public Health have collaborated with community partners to develop and/or implement programs to improve health locally.

Albert Lea Tribune — New Mayo Clinic book guides women through menopause — “This book serves to inform women about what’s happening to their bodies, what treatment options are available and how to remain healthy in the years past menopause,” said Stephanie Faubion, medical editor of The Menopause Solution and director of the Women’s Health Clinic and Office of Women’s Health at Mayo Clinic. Faubion, a North American Menopause Society – certified menopause practitioner, is one of the nation’s leading experts on menopause and regularly treats women with menopause-related conditions. Additional coverage: Western Free Press

Chippewa Herald — PTSD isn't just a military disease, but intrudes on civilians, too by Mike Tighe — The impression that PTSD cases are increasing may be attributed to several elements. “I think people are more aware of PTSD, and physicians are doing a better job of catching the disorder,” said Lisa Howell, who has a doctorate in clinical psychology and works in behavioral health at Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Healthcare. “But it is also an increase in traumatic occurrences.”

LaCrosse Tribune — Free session on macular degeneration set for Mayo-Franciscan by Mike TIghe — Macular degeneration and its causes, how to reduce the risk of vision deterioration, and the newest diagnosis and treatment options will be discussed during a free presentation at 2:30 p.m. May 24 in Marycrest Auditorium at Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Healthcare at 700 West Avenue S. in La Crosse. Dr. Justin Yamanuha, a retina specialist at Mayo-Franciscan, will present “Macular Degeneration: Vitamins, Veggies and VEGF” as part of hospital’s Successful Aging Program. Mayo-Franciscan geriatrician Dr. Thomas Loepfe designed the program to educate seniors on topics to help them improve and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Gulf News — Several factors in play for rise of the disorder by Huda Tabrez — Is the internet fuelling hypochondria? If experts are to be believed, while it may not be the sole reason, it does make matters worse for people who suffer from the condition. Hypochondria, or illness anxiety disorder, is an abnormal chronic anxiety about one’s health, according to Mayo Clinic. According to Dr Andrea Tosatto, a clinical psychologist based in Dubai, there are several reasons why hypochondria is on the rise lately. “Firstly, a lot of doctors publicise the need for periodical check ups. While many do it for creating awareness about preventing diseases, part of this could also be marketing. If you create alarm in people, you create potential clients,” he told Gulf News.

MD Magazine — Antibodies Spell Trouble in Crohn's Disease by Dava Stewart — A new study shows that when anti-microbial antibodies are present and have accumulated for years before a person is diagnosed with Crohn’s disease (CD), the disease is likely to be complicated at or shortly after diagnosis. The study was conducted by Rok Seon Choung, MD, of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, and colleagues and was published on the website of Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics on April 27, 2016.

New York Post — Why is the government out to destroy vaping? by Kyle Smith — In 2014, the FDA published a proposed rule that would have effectively banned vaping, though a congressional amendment passed last week could reverse that. The Mayo Clinic and the Centers for Disease Control are among the outfits that have falsely claimed vaping is as dangerous as cigarettes.

Modern Healthcare — The future of 'shock therapy' hangs in the balance by Virgil Dickson — A proposal to require new clinical data on the efficacy and safety of electroconvulsive therapy may be the death knell for the controversial treatment of psychiatric disorders. Ernest Hemingway famously underwent 20 rounds of ECT at Mayo Clinic to treat him for depression in 1961. He is reported to have lost some of his memory as a result and wrote “It was a brilliant cure but we lost the patient,” shortly before committing suicide.

CIO — Design thinking for healthcare by Peter B. Nichol — The Mayo Clinic has embraced design thinking in their Center for Innovation (CFI), that is located on the 16th floor of the Gonda and Mayo buildings. This incubator designs clinical experiences that meet patients' needs. The in-house lab also has a Design Research Studio to observe patients, interview families, and conduct general research. This incubator is a place where patients can see their needs, shaping the future of care delivery. Design thinking is a key differentiator for Mayo that fuels innovation.

Medscape — Ixazomib in First All-Oral Triplet for Multiple Myeloma by Alexander M. Castellino, Ph.D. —"Three new drugs were approved in November 2015 for treating relapsed multiple myeloma," S. Vincent Rajkumar, MD, of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, told Medscape Medical News. In that month, ixazomib was approved, as were elotozumab (Empliciti, Bristol-Myers Squibb) and daratumumab (Darzalex, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc); both latter drugs were granted priority review. "These combinations provide useful options when patients relapse on a given regimen," Dr Rajkumar said.

Times of India — Look who spreads germs in public toilets — A 2012 The Mayo Clinic Proceedings' systematic review of various studies said that paper towels are superior to air dryers, as friction while using towels help dislodge microrganisms from the skin surface. Dryers, on the other hand could leave bugs behind, and also circulate and disperse germs by sucking contaminated air in the absence of proper filters, said the review. Hope this settles the toilet battles for now.

Clinical Oncology News — New Strategies Are Proposed For Ovarian Cancer Treatment —Jamie Bakkum-Gamez, MD, a gynecologic oncologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., noted that Dr. Narod’s recommendations generally reflect the beliefs and current practices at her institution. A cure rate of 50%, she said, is “definitely achievable.” Although two recent clinical trials in Europe found that patients who underwent primary debulking surgery followed by chemtherapy showed no difference in overall survival compared with patients who got the treatments in the reverse order, Dr. Bakkum-Gamez noted that the surgeries performed were not nearly as aggressive or thorough as those done elsewhere, including at Mayo Clinic. “Not every surgeon is created equal,” she said.

Killeen Daily Herald — Mayo Clinic News Network: Group releases aspirin guidelines — Mayo Clinic cardiologist Dr. Stephen Kopecky said daily aspirin therapy may lower your risk of heart attack in men and stroke in women, because it helps prevent blood from clotting. For example, if your arteries are narrowed from atherosclerosis — the buildup of fatty deposits in your arteries — a fatty deposit in your vessel lining can burst. Then, a blood clot can quickly form and block the artery. This prevents blood flow to the heart and causes a heart attack. Aspirin therapy reduces the clotting — possibly preventing a heart attack.

Crown College — Crown College Science Students Honored with Impact Gold Award and Mayo Clinic Internships — Crown junior Sol Jin and senior Ryan Hershey teamed up to develop a novel hypothesis in response to one of three health care crisis questions posed by Innovative Minds Partnering to Advance Curative Therapies (IMPACT), an undergraduate student program sponsored by Regenerative Medicine Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic Office for Applied Scholarship and Education Science.

Healio — Ultra-short celiac disease diagnosis may represent early disease, mild clinical phenotype — A study of the clinical implications and presentation of ultra-short celiac disease, in which villous atrophy is confined to the duodenal bulb, found that the diagnosis may represent early stage or limited celiac disease with a milder clinical phenotype and infrequency of nutritional deficiencies… “We ... aimed to establish the prevalence of USCD in a large patient cohort, in the context of a routine duodenal biopsy strategy in all-comers to open-access diagnostic gastroscopy,” Joseph A. Murray, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and colleagues wrote.

Charlton County Herald — Waycross hospital to take regional name on July 1 — Waycross regional hospital will be known as “Okefenokee Health System” as of July 1. The new branding was announced last Thursday by the Waycross Board of Directors. Selection of the new name follows the November, 2015 announcement by Mayo Clinic in Florida that it would withdrawing from a roughly three-year partnership with Satilla Health Services.

Billings Gazette — Billings Clinic team preps patients ahead of surgery for quickest recovery by Zach Benoit — Called Early Recovery After Surgery (ERAS), the project is in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic, and has so far produced encouraging results…Team members from Billings have visited the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota — where the approach has been used successfully — to learn how to structure their effort and then added some of their own elements. The Billings team placed more emphasis on nutrition and preparation before surgery. That effort has paid off, even catching the attention of Mayo staff, who are looking at ways to implement what the Billings team has learned into their own programs.

James Plaindealer — Death Rate Increasing Dramatically for Rural White Middle-Aged Women by Ryan Anderson — Some of the increase in deaths of rural white middle age women may be due to a question of “access” in rural areas, but it’s less a lack of facilities than a matter of cost said Julie Pace, nurse practitioner at Mayo Clinic Health System in St. James. Yes, there is access to healthcare, but is it affordable? In rural areas, the spike in death rate among middle-aged white women first became apparent as far back as 1990, according to The Post.

The Hill — A new narrative on cyber security by Dan Perrin — It is not rational behavior that businesses buy a defective piece of software, transfer all legal risk of its failure to them through a EULA, then try and insure themselves against the risks of defects in a product they did not build.  Mayo Clinic and Exxon have decided to stop the irrational behavior and act in their self-interest.   They have procurement policies that force companies to accept liability for software flaws that cause a breach. And Mayo forces companies to go through extensive testing and to provide a bill of materials to insure none of the software has known vulnerabilities.

KTTC-TV — Mayo Clinic to receive $7 million award to research migraine treatment by Frannie Smith — At some point we've all fallen victim to migraines, and a lot of times it takes more than a dose of Tylenol to get rid of those pains. Pretty soon, researchers at Mayo Clinic will get to the bottom of how to treat the aches. A Mayo Clinic research team has been approved for $7 million in funding to study migraine treatment strategies. The 5-year study is the first of its kind.. and will compare two current strategies for treating patients who have chronic migraine, and medication overuse.

Post Bulletin — Letter: Soothing music of Jane Belau belongs in the Gonda Building — Upon returning to the Mayo Clinic this spring, we were surprised and dismayed to learn the music of Jane Belau in the Gonda Building had been terminated. We always enjoyed her light piano renditions and found them to be very soothing and uplifting to our spirits. We think music has always been part of Mayo Clinic's healing process and certainly more beneficial than silence.

MedPage Today — Stroke Care Transition Program Cut Readmission by Kristin Jenkins — "This is an important study given the need to define beneficial strategies to reduce readmissions following stroke," Robert D. Brown, Jr., MD, MPH, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said in an email to MedPage Today. "A medical center implementing such a model would need to consider the merits and importance of the patient-focused improvement of care and reduction in readmission engendered by such a model, which should more than offset the costs associated with the hiring and orientation of appropriately trained RNs and nurse practitioners needed to implement the model," said Brown, who was not affiliated with the study.

Medscape — New Leads on Leadless Pacemakers and SubQ ICDs — Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Geske and Dr. Paul Friedman.

Newsweek — Robot Surgeon Succeeds Without Help from Human Doctors by Lecia Bushak — A recent Mayo Clinic  study found that major surgical errors—including operating on the wrong site or side of the body, inserting the wrong implant, or even leaving tools or objects inside the patient—occur every one out of 22,000 invasive procedures. That’s rare, but robots like STAR would aim to lower the number even further.

Neurology Advisory — Barriers to Care Exist in Chronic Migraine by Alicia Ciccone — In order to better understand these barriers, researchers led by David W. Dodick, MD, of Mayo Clinic, conducted a longitudinal web-based panel in participants with chronic migraine. All participants had evidence of headache-related disability and provided data on health insurance status.

Refinery 29 — Why We'll Never Really Be Rid Of The BMI by Sarah Jacoby — The best thing about the BMI is that it’s easy, explains Janet Tomiyama, PhD, an assistant professor of health psychology at UCLA. “It’s two numbers — weight and height — so anyone can get their [BMI] number without training,” she says. And because it's so quick, cheap, and anyone can do it, it's an obvious choice for researchers on the hunt for data. On top of that, BMI truly is useful as a measure when you're looking at a large set of data. In fact, as a new study in Mayo Clinic Proceedings suggests, on that scale, it may even be more accurate at predicting health problems in a group of people than body fat percentage.

WEAU-TV Eau Claire — New health care facility to be built in Bloomer by Jesse Horne — Ground was broken Wednesday for a new health care facility in Chippewa County. Members of the Bloomer Chamber of Commerce, local business representatives, and other community members gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony at Dove Health Care…Kiley says residents of Dove Health Care in Mayo Clinic Health System will be moving into the facility once it is finished.

Reuters — S. bullet train proposals shun public funds, favor private cash by Robin Respaut — “All the rules relating to public engagement start the day you take public funding,” said Wendy Meadley, chief strategy officer for North American High Speed Rail Group’s project in Minnesota. With private financing, she said, opponents "can’t make thousands of public records requests and run the project over.” The company said last year it would seek money from Chinese investors. Now, it said it is considering two foreign partners for the $4.2 billion project, which seeks to connect the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul to the internationally renowned Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, by 2022. Additional coverage: Yahoo! Finance, Philly.com

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