January 10, 2019
Mayo doctor specializes in American Indians, cancer
Florida Times-Union by Matt Soergel She was 5 years old when her grandmother, Ada Salmon, told her that she was meant to be a healer. At the time, she didn’t really know what that meant, but the words from her grandmother, a member of the Choctaw Nation, stuck with her. In her 30s, Judith Kaur […]
Tags: American Indians, Cancer, Dr. Judith Kaur, Florida Times-Union, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, National Cancer Institute’s Spirit of Eagles program
December 14, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for December 14, 2018
HealthDay, AHA: Exercise After Heart Attack May Improve Survival — The study supports exercise as “one of the most important medicines people can take before cardiac events but, in particular, after them as well,” said Dr. Randal Thomas, medical director of the cardiac rehabilitation program at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. The study sends […]
Tags: 3-D breast imaging, A.L.S., Alexander D. Weston, All Abilities Park, Annie Redlin, apple cider vinegar, Balloon Brigade, BioSig, breathing techniques, Cancer, CBD, chatbots
November 30, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for November 30, 2018
Wall Street Journal, Doctors Rethink the Cause—and Treatment—of Diverticular Disease by Laura Landro — Researchers are also learning more about the role of obesity in the risk of diverticulitis, and recommend maintaining a healthy body-mass index—the measure of body fat in relation to height and weight. But in a Mayo Clinic study of rising rates […]
Tags: active shooter, Adam Bracks, Aerial Yoga, AI, alzheimer's disease, artificial Intelligence, autoimmune encephalopathy, blood donation, Breast Cancer, Cancer, carpal tunnel syndrome, clinical trials
November 21, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for November 21, 2018
New York Times, Why Don’t We Have Vaccines Against Everything? by Donald G. McNeil Jr. — …And as with weaponry, fear changes everything. In epidemiologically quiet times, the anti-vaccine lobby sows doubts; when Ebola or pandemic flu strikes, Americans clamor for protection. There are two obstacles to faster progress, said Dr. Gregory A. Poland, director […]
Tags: active shooter, aging, AI, alcohol, Alex Biagi, Amanda Dernbach, antibiotics, artificial Intelligence, Breast Cancer, Cancer, carpal tunnel, Cathy Deimeke
November 9, 2018
‘They’ve given me the greatest gift’: Revolutionary cancer treatment comes to Mayo Clinic
First Coast News by Juliette Dryer Tanis Milicevik and her family love to travel, but for so many years they were unable to plan ahead. Would she be well enough? Would she be getting cancer treatment? Milicevik was first diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma 10 years ago when the younger of her two sons was just […]
Tags: Cancer, CAR-T cell therapy, Dr. Mohamed Kharfan Dabaja, First Coast News, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Tanis Milicevik
August 31, 2018
Mayo Clinic Health System expansion continues
WKBT La Crosse by Greg White The expansion of an area hospital continues. The $4.9 million renovation of Mayo Clinic Health System La Crosse began this spring. The expansion project, which was announced last November, will double the amount of exam rooms and treatment bays. “The reason we need more space is because people are […]
Tags: building expansion, Cancer, Dr. Paula Gill, Mayo Clinic Health System Franciscan Healthcare, WKBT La Crosse
August 6, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for August 3, 2018
Washington Post, Hookworms burrowed into a teenager’s skin during a trip to Florida. You can’t unsee these images. by Lindsey Bever — There are two main types of hookworm: human hookworms and animal, or zoonotic, hookworms. Bobbi Pritt, director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory in the Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, said […]
Tags: Alan Alda, alzheimer's disease, Aneurysms, Biogen, birth control pills, blood cancer, breast cancer research, breastfeeding, Bryan Duncan, Cancer, CAR-T cell, diets
July 27, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for July 27, 2018
STAT, Experimental Alzheimer’s drug significantly slowed patients’ cognitive decline, buoying hopes for treatment by Damian Garde — The Phase 2 trial, which employed multiple statistical measures, failed its primary goal. Four doses of BAN2401 didn’t outperform placebo, and the high dose was tested on just 161 patients. Furthermore, the metric Biogen and Eisai used to […]
Tags: alzheimer's disease, amgen, anesthesia, Big Blue Dragon Boat Race, bioethics, brain freeze, BRCA gene, Cancer, dementia, Dr. Amaal Starling, Dr. Amit Sood, Dr. Asad Javed.
July 27, 2018
Special masks help young cancer patients through treatments
KAAL by Kali Aldrich “My power is to cure animals,” said Lorea Lacaro. This idea was brought about when Mayo Clinic staff saw it on social media. Radiologists in Europe were making treatment masks for their patients. “So it starts off as like a hard piece of plastic, and then we put it in a […]
Tags: Cancer, Jennifer Dewessee, KAAL, Lorea Lacaro, Mayo Clinic Children's Center, pediatric cancer