Items Tagged ‘cholla cactus’
February 15, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for February 15, 2019
STAT, New voices at patients’ bedsides: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Apple by Casey Ross — Mayo Clinic, one of the pioneers of voice in health care, built an Alexa-enabled program to deliver first aid instructions to consumers. More recently, it has begun piloting the use of the technology to deliver post-discharge instructions to patients recovering […]
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February 8, 2019
Verify: Can a ‘jumping’ cholla cactus kill you?
KPNX-12 NBC Phoenix If you’ve grown up or lived in Arizona you’ve been around cholla cactus. But what happens if walk into one and the barb cuts the skin? We verify how dangerous these cacti are. Dr. Stephen Traub from Mayo Clinic emergency medicine gives his insights. Reach: KPNX-TV is the NBC affiliate in Phoenix. Its […]
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