January 4, 2013
Mayo Clinic Spinoff Gets Approval to Sell Heart Device
NeoChord Inc., a Mayo Clinic spin-off that makes technology for repairing heart valves, has received regulatory approval to sell its device in Europe. The Eden Prairie-based company will begin selling the device in Europe this month, NeoChord CEO John Seaberg said in an interview. The company makes artificial heart “strings” and an accompanying device that treat mitral valve regurgitation, […]
Tags: artificial heart strings, heart valve, John Seaberg, mitral valve regurgitation, Mpls St. Paul Business Journal, NeoChord Inc., repair
October 18, 2012
Tool Reveals Myeloproliferative Neoplasm Patient Burden
Researchers have devised a tool to accurately assess the extent of symptoms in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). The MPN Symptom Assessment Form total symptom score (MPN-SAF TSS) is an efficient, sensitive, and reliable method for symptom assessment in patients with essential thrombocythemia (ET), polycythemia vera (PV), or myelofibrosis, say Ruben Mesa (Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, […]
Tags: Dr. Ruben Mesa, Journal of Clinical Oncology, MPN Symptom Assessment Form, MPNs, myeloproliferative neoplasms, News Medical
October 12, 2012
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
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 relation NY Times The Ups […]
Tags: alzheimers, American Society for Preventive Cardiology, arthritis, Arthritis Today, Bismarck Tribune, Cardiology, Cora Kanow Professor of Alzheimer’s Disease Research at Mayo Clinic, Doctor Radio, Dr. Dawn Milliner, Dr. Eric Matteson, Dr. Ronald Petersen, Dr. Stephen Kopecky
October 11, 2012
Smartphones Are Suitable for Mobile Telemedicine
An evaluation of the use of smartphones to remotely review CT scans of the brains of stroke patients has found that they perform as well as desktop systems. The study, the first to test the effectiveness of smartphone teleradiology applications in a telestroke network, has been published in the journal Stroke [1]. The Mayo Clinic […]
Tags: British Journal of Healthcare Computing, iPhone app, Smartphones, stroke, teleradiology, telestroke network
October 8, 2012
Mayo Medical Laboratories Launches Mobile Test Catalog and Reference Apps
Mayo Medical Laboratories is introducing two comprehensive mobile applications for iPhones and iPads, allowing physicians and pathologists unparalleled access to clinical laboratory expertise from Mayo Clinic … “Mayo Clinic has always put the needs of patients first, and the mobile test catalog and reference apps were developed to provide physicians the information they need to […]
Tags: Dr. Franklin Cockerill, iPhone app, Mayo Medical Laboratories, mobile test catalog, News Medical, reference app
September 5, 2012
Katherine Zeratsky, a registered dietitian at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, says she works with patients who use services like MyFitnessPal to help them eat healthfully when they travel. But not all apps have the same ease of use, features or science backing them up, Ms. Zeratsky said. “It’s caveat emptor, the buyer needs to […]
Tags: diet, iPhone app, Katherine Zeratsky, MyFitnessPal, NY Times
July 20, 2012
How Microsoft Kinect Has Inspired ‘The Surgeon’s GPS’
Blood-spattered surgeons intent on maintaining operating theatre sterility can hardly be expected to drop everything, strip off their gloves and type madly on a PC to dig up urgent patient data… A technology developed for one of the world’s most popular video game consoles is already helping to make that a reality, as programmers “hack” […]
Tags: Financial Post, Jamie Tremaine, Kinect, microsoft, Xbox 360