July 5, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for July 5, 2019
Washington Post, Closing the achievement gap, with help from the Mayo Clinic by Mikhail Zinshteyn — Amarachi Orakwue felt stifled during high school in Minnesota, having immigrated to the United States from Nigeria in 2010. She “stuck out like a sore thumb,” she said, as one of the few students of color in class. “I […]
Tags: A.L.S., acupuncture, AI, Amanda Holloway, Amarachi Orakwue, Andy Cohen, artificial Intelligence, Audrey Umbreit, blood sugar, Chron's disease, COPD, dementia
January 20, 2017
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. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Emily Blahnik CNBC Important not to lose ground on ACA Dr. John Noseworthy, […]
Tags: "liquid biopsies", ACA, acupuncture, aging, alzheimers, Arizona Republic, baby powder, blood donation, Bloomberg, Bradly Prigge, breastfeeding, C. Difficile
November 23, 2016
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. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Emily Blahnik STAT Mayo leaders: A nine-fold path to preventing burnout We’ve […]
Tags: ABC15 Arizona, acupuncture, Affordable care act, aging, alcohol, Alzforum, alzheimer's disease, alzheimers, Aneurysm, Arizona Republic, Becker’s Hospital Review, Becker’s Orthopedic & Spine
March 23, 2010
Acupuncture has long baffled medical experts and no wonder: It holds that an invisible life force called qi (pronounced chee) travels up and down the body in 14 meridians. Illness and pain are due to blockages and imbalances in qi. Inserting thin needles into the body at precise points can unblock the meridians, practitioners believe, […]
Tags: acupuncture, Peter Dorsher
February 25, 2010
Acupuncture Eases Depression in Pregnancy
Acupuncture resulted in significantly greater improvements in depression among pregnant women than two control treatments, a small, randomized trial showed… Nearly two-thirds (63%) of women who received depression-specific acupuncture responded to treatment, compared with 44.3% of controls who received another acupuncture protocol or massage (P<0.05), according to Rachel Manber, PhD, of Stanford University, and […]
Tags: acupuncture, depression, pregnancy
February 19, 2010
Charlotte Native Returns to Open Acupuncture Practice
On Monday, March 8th, acupuncturist & former Charlottean, Patrick Fitzsimons, will begin seeing patients at The Art of Living Center… Acupuncture is a modality with great momentum in the world of medicine, endorsed by the World Health Organization and the National Institute of Health for a number of conditions… “Overall, an ever-growing body […]
Tags: acupuncture