Pediatrics

March 27, 2013

St. Paul schools’ healthy-food kick gets national attention

By Logan Lafferty

Amid some national buzz about the St. Paul district’s nutrition program, an official delegation invited itself over to St. Paul’s Crossroads Elementary for lunch Tuesday, March 26. There was a head honcho from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Congresswoman Betty McCollum, a smattering of legislative aides and a pediatrician from the Mayo Clinic. They came […]

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Tags: Congresswoman Betty McCollum, Crossroads Elementary, federal school lunch rules, healthy school food, nutrition program, Pioneer Press, St. Paul schools, U.S. Department of Agriculture


March 21, 2013

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

By Karl Oestreich

    March 21, 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, AP, Associated Press, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Businessweek, BusinessWeek, Cancer, cervical cancer, Choline, Choline C 11, concussion


March 18, 2013

Cervical Cancer Vaccines Spurned by 44% of U.S. Parents

By Logan Lafferty

Researchers analyzed data from a national survey from 2008 to 2010 on immunizations for teenagers…“That’s the opposite direction that rate should be going,” Robert Jacobson, a pediatrician at the Mayo Clinic Children’s Center in Rochester, Minnesota, and a senior researcher of the paper, said in a statement. “HPV causes essentially 100 percent of cervical cancer and 50 […]

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Tags: Bloomberg, cervical cancer, Dr. Robert Jacobson, HPV, immunization, Mayo Clinic Children's Center, vaccine


March 15, 2013

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

By Karl Oestreich

    March 15, 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: ADHD, Alaska, Anchorage, Andrea Pedersen, Barbara Swanson, Bloomberg, CFI, Choline C11, Choline C11 Injection, Controlled Substances Act, Daylight Savings Time, destination medical center


March 13, 2013

Mayo: Children who avoid risk tend to develop anxiety later

By Logan Lafferty

Children who avoid or flee from worrisome situations are more likely to develop anxiety, according to an analysis of parent and child surveys conducted by Mayo Clinic researchers. The underlying theory isn’t that new, that an absence of risk and challenge in childhood leads to nervousness and anxiety later on. But researchers were nonetheless surprised at […]

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Tags: anxiety, avoidance, childhood, risk, Star Tribune


March 8, 2013

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

By Karl Oestreich

    March 8, 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: A.D.H.D., ABC News, ACC, ADHD, Affordable care act, alzheimers, American College of Cardiology's 62nd Annual Scientific Session, AP, Ardell Brede, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, Bill George, Bloomberg


February 25, 2013

Three-Year-Old Boy Who Can’t Eat Anything Is Running Out of Time, Parents Say

By Logan Lafferty

Michael drinks 20 to 30 bottles of prescription-only formula daily called Neocate Junior. He can’t eat apples or carrots or anything else that other kids his age eat, his mother, Jennifer Gonzalez, told ABC News affiliate KSTP…Specialists have been examining Michael at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where the boy’s parents took him two weeks […]

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Tags: ABC News, Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome, Neocate Junior


February 21, 2013

Making Newer Antiepileptic Drugs Available to Children

By Logan Lafferty

More research on AUDs for pediatric epilepsy is critical, according to Raj D. Sheth, M.D., chief of neurology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Jacksonville, FL. “The lack of information makes it difficult for neurologists, who have to prescribe off  label; difficult for the insurance companies, who often restrict medications if they’re not clearly […]

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Tags: antiepileptic drugs, AUDs, Dr. Raj D. Sheth, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Neurology Now, pediatric epilepsy


February 11, 2013

Skin-Care Basics for Your New Baby

By Logan Lafferty

Bathing a baby and caring for the newborn’s skin can intimidate new parents, an expert says. Newborns are small, vulnerable and slippery when wet, and finding products marketed for their delicate skin can be a challenge, too, said Dr. Dawn Davis, a pediatric dermatologist at the Mayo Clinic Children’s Center in Rochester, Minn. Writing in […]

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Tags: delicate skin, Dr. Dawn Davis, HealthDay, International Journal of Dermatology, Mayo Clinic Children's Center, newborn


November 9, 2012

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

By Karl Oestreich

    Nov. 2, 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 […]

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