Hematology
July 12, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
July 12 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 relations Philadelphia Enquirer […]
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May 3, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
May 3, 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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February 19, 2013
Dr. Stephan Thome, a specialist in oncology and hematology with Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato, has personally observed an increase in melanoma diagnoses in the area through the patients who walk through his door…”Think of the farmers sitting on tractors getting burned by the sun, and young ladies who want to look like a […]
Tags: diagnosis increase, Dr. Stephan Thome, Fairmont Sentinel, Mankato, melanoma
July 6, 2012
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
July 6, 2012 Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlight 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 relations New […]
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June 23, 2012
U of M, Mayo Receive Grant to Study Blood Cancer
Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Mayo Clinic have received a $1.35 million grant to study a form of blood cancer called myelodysplastic syndrome. The grant from the Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics is on top of $2.5 million the university received last year from the National Institutes of Health to study […]
Tags: Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics, Myelodysplastic Syndrome, University of Minnesota
June 8, 2012
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
June 8, 2012 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 relations Wall […]
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March 26, 2012
Clot Removal Resuscitates Boyd Man With Little Time to Spare
Randy Setzer could have died last month after blood clots blocked the main arteries to his lungs and, despite resuscitation efforts, he showed little sign of life…Dr. Robert Wiechmann, a Mayo Clinic Health System cardiovascular surgeon, called the outcome of Setzer’s case “miraculous.” Eau Claire Leader-Telegram by Christena O’Brien 3/26/12
March 1, 2012
Ruxolitinib in Myelofibrosis: Only for Some Patients
The first drug ever approved for myelofibrosis, ruxolitinib (Jakafi, Incyte/Novartis), is useful only in about 25% of patients with this disorder, according to Ayalew Tefferi, MD, from the division of hematology at the Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota. Even then, it might not be the best option, he added. Dr. Tefferi was speaking to Medscape Medical […]
Tags: Ayalew Tefferi, myelofibrosis, New England Journal of Medicine, ruxolitinib
February 23, 2012
Fugates of Kentucky: Skin Bluer than Lake Louise
Benjamin “Benjy” Stacy so frightened maternity doctors with the color of his skin — “as Blue as Lake Louise” — that he was rushed just hours after his birth in 1975 to University of Kentucky Medical Center. As a transfusion was being readied, the baby’s grandmother suggested to doctors that he looked like the “blue […]
Tags: Benjamin "Benjy" Stacy, Dr. Ayalew Tefferi, intermarriage, Lake Louise, Luna Fugate, methemoglobinemia, recessive gene, University of Kentucky Medical Center
January 20, 2012
Mayo Clinic Medical Edge: Bruising easily can be normal but sometimes signals an underlying problem,
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: Lately, I seem to bruise very easily. Is this something I should see my doctor about or be concerned with? I am 54 and in excellent health. ANSWER: Bruising easily can be normal in some people and becomes more common as we age. But bruising easily may also signal an underlying medical […]