Items Tagged ‘addiction’
June 7, 2019
Integrated approach to opioid addiction
KEYC Mankatoby Erika Brooks Mayo Clinic Health System is launching a pilot project to holistically treat addiction, mental and physical health. It’s a little-known aspect of addiction: According to Mayo Clinic Health Systems, more than 40 percent of those with a substance-use disorder also have a mental health condition. Yet, only 1 in 10 addicts […]
Tags: addiction, Dr. Shirshendu Sinha, Mayo Clinic Health System, mental health, opioid addiction
May 24, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for May 24, 2019
New York Times, In Health Care, Too Much Privacy Is a Bad Thing by Luke Miner — Data-sharing agreements should be standardized so that doctors and hospitals don’t have to draft custom ones every time they want to share information. Some effort has already been made to reform fines by taking into account the “culpability” […]
Tags: addiction, aging, alcoholism, alzheimer's disease, anxiety, ASU, bariatric surgery, blood donation, blood thinners, cardiac rehab, Chiari malformation, Christine Hughes
August 10, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for August 10, 2018
By Emily DeBoom 
NBC News, How to keep yourself (and your dog) cool in a heatwave by Vivian Manning-Schaffel — Thanks to climate change, summers are longer and hotter, and we only have more extreme vacillations in temperature to look forward to… The most serious heat-related illness, heatstroke is described by The Mayo Clinic as the body “overheating […]
Tags: 1883 Rochester, ablation, addiction, alzheimer's disease, beer belly, Beyoncé, Chemotherapy, childbirth, Clostridium difficile infection, CTE, dementia, destination medical center
December 15, 2017
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for December 15, 2017
New York Times, Sleep vs. Exercise? by Karen Weintraub — Desiree Ahrens, a certified health and wellness coach at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said that for the time-starved, there are ways to sneak exercise into the day without heading to the gym or a formal exercise class. Running up the […]
Tags: addiction, aging, alzheimer's disease, anxiety, Balloon Brigade, Biofourmis, brain surgery, Breast Cancer, burnout, Children's Memorial Day, concussion, Desiree Ahrens
January 25, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
January 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 […]
Tags: addiction, azcentral.com, Banner Sun Health Research Institute, Bob Brigham, Caribbean, Clinica Salus, Daily Mail (UK), Dr. Charles Adler, Dr. Jennifer St. Sauver, Dr. Thomas Beach, Dr. Timothy Lineberry, Eau Claire
January 9, 2013
Don’t Blame Parkinson’s Disease for Addiction: Study
Despite concerns that Parkinson’s patients were more likely to become compulsive gamblers or shoppers, a new study says untreated patients don’t have any more addictions than people without the disease…”This study seems to support that fact it’s related to the medication,” said Dr. Anhar Hassan, who was not involved with the new study but researches […]
Tags: addiction, Dr. Anhar Hassan, parkinson's disease, Reuters, side effect