Items Tagged ‘blood test’

January 26, 2018

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for January 26, 2018

By Emily Blahnik

      STAT, A ‘Shark Tank’-funded test for food sensitivity is medically dubious, experts say by Allison Bond — Dr. Martha Hartz, an allergist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., says she frequently evaluates patients who’ve already forked over the cash for the testing. “Anytime I see a patient who’s had these kinds of […]

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Tags: acid reflux, allergies, alzheimer's disease, Andy Sandness, blood cancer, blood test, Breast Cancer, Cancer, cervical cancer, Cherri Olson, Cognitive Test, cold


September 8, 2017

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

By Karl Oestreich

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   CNN New class of drugs targets aging to help keep you healthy […]

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Tags: aging, Albert Lea Tribune, alcoholism, altitude sickness, Alzforum, alzheimer's disease, anxiety, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, blood test, Cancer, Center on Aging, City Center Dispatch


August 12, 2016

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

By Karl Oestreich

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   Buzzfeed What You Should Know About Zika If You’re Going […]

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Tags: ABC News, accupuncture, Addyson Cordes, AOL News, arthritis, Astrobiology, Becker’s Orthopedic & Spine, Best Hospitals, blood test, brain tumor, Breast Cancer, breast microbiome


June 7, 2012

Immune-System Test May Predict Early Death

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A blood test that measures a marker of immune-system activity may help doctors identify people who are at risk of dying at an early age, a new study suggests. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic measured levels of the immune-system molecules known as free light chains in 15,859 Minnesotans age 50 and up, and found that […]

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Tags: blood test, Huffington Post, immune system, immune-system molecules


March 21, 2012

About to Have a Heart Attack? New Test May Tell

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A simple blood test may predict a heart attack up to two weeks in advance, new research suggests. The test searches a patient’s blood sample for abnormal cells that the researchers say could be indicative of the very early stages of a heart attack…Dr. Rob Simari, a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic, who was not […]

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Tags: blood test, Dr. Rob Simari, heart attack


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