June 14, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
June 14, 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 News, ABCnews.com, Boldt Construction, Cancer, Cardiology, Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center, diabetes, Director of the Todd and Karen Wanek Family Program for HLHS, Dr. Andrea Cheville, Dr. Bernard Morrey, Dr. Eric Moore, Dr. Harold Burkhart
September 5, 2012
Cresco Parents Opt for New Surgery for Unborn Child
Most parents say they would do anything for their children, but how far would they actually go? Amie Phillips decided the benefits outweighed the risks when she and her unborn child became the first patients at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., to undergo surgery to repair spina bifida in the womb…One in every 2,000 babies […]
Tags: Dr. Norman Davies, fetal medicine, fetal surgery, spina bifida, The Gazette
June 23, 2012
Late Preemie Birth May Be Linked to Higher Asthma Risk
Babies born just a few weeks early appear to face a greater risk of developing asthma when compared with children born at full term, new research reveals. The observation applied to infants born between the 34th and 37th week of pregnancy. One-quarter of such “late preterm” babies ended up with an asthma diagnosis by the […]
Tags: American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, Dr. Gretchen Matthews, Mayo Clinic Children's Center, preterm babies