History
October 4, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
October 4, 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: ABC. Dr. Richard Besser, American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias, anorexia nervosa, Big Ben, Bob Nellis, Brian Kilen, bulimia nervosa, CGI, CGI Commitment to Action, Clinton Global Initiative, concussions, Dallas Morning News
June 21, 2012
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
June 21, 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 NY […]
Tags: alzheimer's disease, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Chemotherapy, Chicago Tribune, Dr. James A. Levine, Dr. John Black, Dr. John Noseworthy, Esther H. Krych, Florida Times-Union, ginseng, government funding
February 23, 2012
Catholic medical mergers raise dilemmas
As Roman Catholic leaders and government officials clash over the proper role of religion and reproductive health, shifts in health care economics are magnifying the tension…In Rochester, in 1986 Mayo Clinic merged with Saint Marys Hospital, previously owned by the Sisters of St. Francis, and with Methodist Hospital in Rochester. Saint Marys has maintained its […]
Tags: government officials, Methodist Hospital, proper role of religion and reproductive health, Roman Catholic leaders, Saint Marys Hospital, shifts in health care economics, Sisters of St. Francis
February 23, 2012
At first glance, Le Sueur, Minn., might seem like an unlikely new home for United States Federal Aviation Administration type certificates H-1, 2H1 and 2H3, which for 50 years hung on the wall of the Bell Helicopter factory in Hurst, Texas. Yet, this tiny, largely farming-oriented community, located some 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of […]
Tags: Bell Helicopter factory, Dr. William Mayo, Hurst Texas, Jolly Green Giant, Le Sueur Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, type certificate 2H1, type certificate 2H3, type certificate H-1, United States Federal Aviation Administration
February 15, 2012
ARMSTRONG: Obamacare grants doctors liberty to withhold care
If you haven’t noticed it yet, you soon will. The Obama administration has launch-ed a full-court press to sell the president’s “signature” achievement, Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, to the American public as well as to the 800,000 American physicians it directly impacts. As one of those doctors, it was no surprise when an […]
Tags: Affordable care act, Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Charlie and Dr. Will Mayo, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Dr. George Crile, Journal of the American Medical Association, Obama administration, obamacare
February 14, 2012
Turning points in Arizona’s economy
Arizona could not have survived its first century without millions of people innovating, working, growing, manufacturing, building, buying and selling… 1987: Mayo Clinic comes to Scottsdale. Arizona Republic, by Betty Beard, 02/13/2012
February 1, 2012
Story on Earl Wood. Talks about his and Mayo’s contributions to World War II. Rochester Magazine, 01/31/2012
Tags: Earl Wood, World War II
January 23, 2012
Medical Tourism: Promise or Peril?
Privileged classes of people and sometimes common people with difficult medical problems have always traveled to undergo treatment outside their home country. Nineteenth-century centers of medicine in Europe attracted patients from colonies in Africa and the Far and Middle East. In the 20th century, the growing fame and prestige of specialized centers such as the […]
January 20, 2012
Remembrance: A neighbor, friend passes away after celebrating 100 years
Friends and family encouraged him — to the 100-year mark. Finally, Dec. 27, Dr. Fred Helmholz made it. And he was strong for those three final birthday parties with dozens of invited guests from near and far…He loved lectures on outer space and how the world works. And Fred was an authority on Mayo Clinic […]
January 20, 2012
Drawing little attention, London doctor’s legacy amazes
There are probably few who haven’t heard of the famous Mayo Clinic in the United States. Ironically, there are probably equally very few who realize that the man named most responsible for establishing the research tradition at the famous clinic in Rochester, Minn., was a London-born graduate of the University of Western Ontario’s medical school…Leonard […]