October 18, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for October 18, 2019
By Emily Blahnik 
Wall Street Journal, Amazon Joins Trend of Sending Workers Away for Health Care by Melanie Evans — Employers are increasingly going the distance to control health spending, paying to send workers across the country to get medical care and bypassing local health-care providers….Walmart workers diagnosed with breast, lung or colorectal cancer can travel to the […]
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Tags: 3D mammography, alzheimer's disease, Amazon, Beyoncé, BioSig, Blanchard Valley, blood donation, burnout, Cadence Neuroscience, Cancer, Center for Innovation, Cologuard
April 26, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for April 26, 2019
By Emily Blahnik 
Reuters, In many states, pregnancy invalidates a woman’s DNR by Linda Carroll — Most states have statutes that invalidate a woman’s advance directive if she is pregnant, a U.S. study finds. And because those statutes are often not clearly outlined in the DNR form, women filling out an advance directive most likely would not know […]
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Tags: alzheimer's disease, amputee, Aneurysm, Arthur Stanley, ASU, Beyoncé, Brooke Kluck, bubble boy, CPR, CSPAN, DNR, Dr. Ammar Killu
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 […]
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Tags: 1883 Rochester, ablation, addiction, alzheimer's disease, beer belly, Beyoncé, Chemotherapy, childbirth, Clostridium difficile infection, CTE, dementia, destination medical center