October 25, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
October 25, 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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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 […]
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May 10, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
May 10, 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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April 26, 2013
Sickle cell disease accounts for many priapism cases
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 […]
Tags: Dr. Gregory Broderick, priapism, prolonged erection, Reuters, sickle cell disease
March 21, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
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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December 7, 2012
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
December 7, 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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October 18, 2012
Cancer-Specific Anxiety Likely Increases Depressive Symptoms
Higher levels of cancer-specific anxiety were associated with poor sexual function and indicators of depression among men who underwent surgery to treat prostate cancer. The researchers hypothesized that cancer-specific anxiety would affect quality of life in men who had prostatectomy. “The 10-year survival for a man undergoing surgery to remove localized prostate cancer is greater […]
Tags: anxiety, cancer-specific anxiety, Dr. Alexander Parker, Helio, prostate cancer, prostatectomy
October 15, 2012
Don’t Rush To Decide Treatment For Prostate Cancer
They could use surgery to remove the prostate, radiation therapy to try to eliminate the cancer, and what’s called “active surveillance” or regular prostate checks and exams. According to a Mayo Clinic survey of 643 urologists and radiation oncologists, most would direct patients into treatment in their field. Meaning that radiation oncologists would suggest radiation […]
Tags: active surveillance, prostate cancer, radiation, WIBC
September 28, 2012
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
September 28, 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 USA […]
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July 30, 2012
CT Paves the Way to More Accurate Kidney Stone Volume Estimates
Mayo Clinic researchers have proposed a method of estimating kidney stone volume using CT images that offers significantly improved accuracy compared with threshold-based methods, according to a study published online July 23 in the Journal of Urology. “We proposed a volume estimation method based on an adaptive threshold segmentation method and a correction for the […]
Tags: CT images, HealthImaging, Journal of Urology, kidney stone, Xinhui Duan