March 6, 2020
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for March 6, 2020
By Emily Blahnik 
TIME, You Can Learn a Lot About Yourself From a DNA Test. Here’s What Your Genes Cannot Tell You by Libby Copeland — …What is a consumer to believe? A few years ago, Helix, originally a spin-out of genomics giant Illumina (which makes many of the chips and machines used to analyze DNA), unveiled a […]
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Tags: Adam Francis, alzheimer's disease, Angel Eye, arthritis, brain aneurysm, brain tumors, Breast Cancer, Caring Canines, Clinic Data Analytics, colon polyps Dr. Darin Presser, concussions, coronavirus
August 30, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for August 30, 2019
By Emily Blahnik 
New York Times,This Daily Pill Cut Heart Attacks by Half. Why Isn’t Everyone Getting It? by Donald G. McNeil Jr. — The trial was conducted in the “Golestan Cohort,” a group of more than 50,000 Turkmen-speaking people currently enrolled in cancer studies administered by Iranian researchers in coordination with the W.H.O. and the National Cancer […]
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Tags: AI, artificial Intelligence, back to school, bariatric endoscopy, blood clots, brain tumors, Breast Cancer, burnout, celiac disease, Chad Corey, Christina Anderson, David Andrews
June 27, 2019
Better Treatments Needed to Boost Brain Cancer Survival: Study
By Karl Oestreich 
HealthDay Glioblastoma brain cancer remains one of deadliest tumors, and new research shows five-year survival rates remain low for patients with the disease. While there have been improvements in short- and medium-term survival rates for patients with the most common type of brain tumor in adults, only 6% of patients live for five years after […]
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Tags: brain tumors, Dr. Daniel Trifiletti, Dr. Paul D. Brown, Glioblastoma, Health Day, Mayo Clinic in Florida, Mayo Clinic Proceedings
April 11, 2019
Brain tumor treatment innovations
By Karl Oestreich 
Arizona PBS Mayo Clinic Arizona is using new methods to stop and remove brain tumors, and has opened three new image-guided operating rooms. The rooms allow surgeons to perform safer, less invasive procedures to remove brain tumors that had been considered inoperable. We’ll hear more from clinical neurosurgery expert Dr. Bernard Bendok. Reach: Eight, Arizona PBS is […]
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Tags: Arizona PBS, brain tumors, Dr. Bernard Bendok, neurosurgery
September 22, 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 Star Tribune Mayo Clinic offers first aid assistance via Amazon’s Alexa digital […]
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April 15, 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: Carmen Zwicker New York Times Millions With Leg Pain Have Peripheral Artery Disease […]
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Tags: AARP En Espanol, Action News Jax, allergy season, alzheimer's disease, American Journal of Gastroenterology, Amyloid and Tau Markers, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Austin Daily Herald, Becker’s Hospital Review, Bloomberg, brain tumors, Breast Cancer News
July 30, 2015
Mayo Clinic In the News 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 Memphis Daily News Methodist Joins Mayo Clinic Care […]
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Tags: "We Honor Veterans" program, alirocumab (Praluent), Alzheimer's data, Alzheimer's patients., antibiotics over-prescribed, Apervita, Arizona Public Media, Austin Herald, AVIA, Bloomberg, Boston Globe, brain tumors
March 4, 2013
Dasatinib thwarts brain cancer metastasis after bevacizumab use
By Logan Lafferty 
Bevacizumab therapy can provide significant but temporary clinical benefit in persons with recurrent glioblastoma, acknowledged Panos Z. Anastasiadis, PhD, chair of the Department of Cancer Biology at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, and colleagues in their report for PLOS One. The drug causes these brain tumors to shrink by depriving them of blood nutrients, but certain proteins […]
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Tags: bevacizumab therapy, blood nutrients, brain tumors, cancer cells, Department of Cancer Biology, Dr. Panos Z. Anastasiadis, Glioblastoma, Oncology Nurse Advisor, PLoS One, proteins