Items Tagged ‘Alaska Public Radio’
February 21, 2014
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 relations Star Tribune Mayo Clinic updates its model for […]
Tags: "sitting disease", 1500 ESPN, 1500 ESPN Garage Logic, 150th anniversary, 26.2 with Donna, AARP, Abbott Northwestern, ABC News, ABC15, ADHD, Affordable care act, Alaska Public Radio
June 6, 2012
New DNA Test Could Represent a ‘Revolution’ for Colon Cancer
Colon Cancer is the second deadliest cancer for men and women in the United States, behind lung cancer. And Alaska Natives suffer from especially high rates of the disease. Now a new colon cancer screening test is in the final stages of the FDA approval process. It was developed by a Mayo Clinic doctor who visited […]
Tags: Alaska Public Radio, cancer screening, colon cancer, Dr. David Ahlquist