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July 12, 2013

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

By Karl Oestreich

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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Tags: ABC News, ABC News Nightline, ABCnews.com, acid reflux, alzheimer's disease, and Blood Institute, antibiotics, antidepressants, Arizona Republic, Australian News, bio-plotter, biomedical corridor


June 7, 2013

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

By Karl Oestreich

    June 7, 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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Tags: : ABC News Radio, alcohol, Amy Olson, Biomedicine, BringMeTheNews, Business Standard, Cancer, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, chronic disease, Closing Bell, CMS, CNBC


April 26, 2013

Sickle cell disease accounts for many priapism cases

By Logan Lafferty

Thanks to commercials for erectile dysfunction drugs, men know to seek medical attention for “erections lasting more than four hours,” but a new study suggests a blood disorder is the cause of many prolonged erections. “I would say what the paper is telling us is that sickle-cell disease is still responsible for the bulk of […]

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Tags: Dr. Gregory Broderick, priapism, prolonged erection, Reuters, sickle cell disease


April 22, 2013

Study to Treat Deadly Form of Thyroid Cancer Shows Promise, Mayo Clinic Says

By Logan Lafferty

A combination of therapies may prove to be a promising advance for the treatment of anaplastic thyroid cancer based on results of a phase I clinical trial, say researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida…”This is good news, because we did not reach a maximum tolerated dose, meaning that the drug is well tolerated,” says the […]

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Tags: anaplastic thyroid cancer, clinical trial, Dr. Robert Smallridge, HealthCanal, thyroid cancer, treatment


April 12, 2013

Study reports adenoma detection rates are higher than current guidelines suggest in both men and women

By Logan Lafferty

“The aim of our study was to determine gender-specific average-risk screening adenoma detection rates and the prevalence of adenomas by location, size, shape, and degree of dysplasia in each gender from our prospective study on adenoma detection. Recent data in abstract form report ADRs for women exceeding 25 percent. We hypothesized that ADRs for women […]

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Tags: adenoma, adenoma detection, ADR, diagnosis, Dr. Michael B. Wallace, rate increase, Science Codex


April 9, 2013

New Efforts Look to Cut Radiation From CT Scans

By Logan Lafferty

Some argue that patients need to know more about the radiation dangers and should have a bigger say in how their tests are administered. At Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., medical physicist Richard Morin says that he explains to patients how Mayo doctors meet regularly to look at the amounts of radiation they use, and […]

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Tags: CT scan, Dr. Richard Morin, radiation, radiation dangers, radiation exposure, Wall Street Journal


April 5, 2013

Potential DMC result: $100 million Mayo Clinic hospital tower

By Logan Lafferty

If Mayo Clinic’s Destination Medical Center is approved by the Legislature, one of the first concrete results probably will be construction of a $100 million hospital tower on the Saint Marys Hospital campus, a Mayo official said Wednesday. Dr. Bradly Narr, DMC medical director, said once the bill passes, he expects Mayo Clinic in Rochester […]

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Tags: construction projects, destination medical center, DMC, Dr. Bradly Narr, hospital tower, Minnesota Legislature, Post Bulletin


April 5, 2013

Walking and Running May Offer Similar Heath Benefits

By Logan Lafferty

Walkers who feel as though they are way down on the exercise chain can now hold their heads a little higher…”This is a valuable study that was done on a large number of people,” said Dr. Gerald Fletcher, a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., and a spokesperson for the American Heart Association […]

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Tags: AHA, american heart association, Dr. Gerald Fletcher, health benefits, quantity of exercise, running, walking, Yahoo! News Canada


March 28, 2013

Komen awards grants for area breast cancer support programs

By Logan Lafferty

The North Florida Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure has awarded $142,000 in grants to area organizations…For more than 30 years, Komen has helped to fund major breakthroughs in breast cancer research and is the largest private funder of breast cancer research in the world. Komen currently funds 11 research projects in Florida, […]

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Tags: Florida Times-Union, private funding, research grants, Susan G. Komen for the Cure


March 22, 2013

Acting Out Dreams During Sleep May Signal Dementia

By Logan Lafferty

“While it is, of course, true that not everyone who has this sleep disorder develops dementia with Lewy bodies, as many as 75 to 80 percent of men with dementia with Lewy bodies in our Mayo database did experience REM sleep behavior disorder. So it is a very powerful marker for the disease,” study lead […]

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Tags: dementia, Dr. Melissa Murray, dreams, HealthDay, Lewy Body Dementia, REM sleep


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