Items Tagged ‘brain surgery’

December 15, 2017

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for December 15, 2017

By Karl Oestreich

      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 […]

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December 7, 2017

Real America with Jorge Ramos: Dr. Q’s American Dream

By Karl Oestreich

Fusion TV Jorge Ramos scrubs in for surgery with Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, or Dr. Q, a world-renowned neurosurgeon, as he tries to remove a brain tumor from a patient who will be awake the entire time. More Dr. Q on Real America with Jorge Ramos: Fusion TV Meet Dr. Q Fusion TV Watch Dr. Q […]

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Tags: brain surgery, Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Fusion TV, neurosurgery


November 22, 2017

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for November 22, 2017

By Karl Oestreich

      Washington Post, A standing desk isn’t going to help you lose a lot of weight by Rachel Rettner — The findings mean that, for a person who weighs about 140 pounds, substituting sitting with standing for six hours a day would burn an extra 54 calories per day, the researchers said. This […]

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November 22, 2017

Study asks neurosurgeons: How old is too old to perform brain surgery?

By Karl Oestreich

Science Daily People sometimes joke that easy tasks are “not brain surgery.” But what happens when it actually is brain surgery? How old is too old to be a neurosurgeon? In a new Mayo Clinic Proceedings study, most neurosurgeons disagreed with an absolute age cutoff, but half favored additional testing for neurosurgeons 65 and older. […]

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Tags: brain surgery, Dr. Fredric Meyer, neurosurgery, ScienceDaily


May 26, 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   Pioneer Press Once a migrant worker, he’s revolutionizing brain surgery, […]

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May 5, 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   Reuters Rethink emphasis on lowering saturated fat to save hearts: docs […]

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June 12, 2015

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 Laura Wuotila with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor, Carmen Zwicker   Boston Globe In the future, treatments tailored to […]

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March 15, 2010

Brain surgery for OF

By Kelley Luckstein

Outfielder Ryan Westmoreland, one of the Red Sox’ top minor league prospects, has been diagnosed with a rare vascular irregularity in his brain and will undergo surgery in Arizona Tuesday…   Westmoreland, who turns 20 next month, has a “cavernous malformation’’ that was discovered March 5 at Massachusetts General Hospital…   The malformation, according to […]

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Tags: brain surgery, Ryan Westmoreland


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