November 1, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for November 1, 2019
By Emily Blahnik 
Washington Post, Health-care system causing rampant burnout among doctors, nurses by William Wan — Complex regulations on hospital reimbursement gives rise to a long list doctors must tic through in physical exams, even as they try to figure out what’s ailing a patient, so hospitals can charge more or less based on the exam’s complexity…“It’s […]
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Tags: AI, artificial Intelligence, Ashley Musch, asthma, Barbara Slaggie, Ben Merck, Biogen, blood pressure, brain tumor, breakfast, Breast Cancer, breast cancer vaccine
May 24, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for May 24, 2019
By Emily Blahnik 
New York Times, In Health Care, Too Much Privacy Is a Bad Thing by Luke Miner — Data-sharing agreements should be standardized so that doctors and hospitals don’t have to draft custom ones every time they want to share information. Some effort has already been made to reform fines by taking into account the “culpability” […]
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Tags: addiction, aging, alcoholism, alzheimer's disease, anxiety, ASU, bariatric surgery, blood donation, blood thinners, cardiac rehab, Chiari malformation, Christine Hughes
March 15, 2019
Arizona’s Mayo School of Medicine ranked Top 10
By Karl Oestreich 
AZ Big Media U.S. News & World Report released its 2020 “Best Graduate Schools” rankings on Tuesday, March 12. Featured in the “Top 10 Best Medical Schools” once again is Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine. The school is ranked No. 9 in the national rankings, coming in at a three-way tie with Cornell University […]
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Tags: 2020 “Best Graduate Schools” rankings, AZ Big Media, Dr. Fredric Meyer, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine
August 31, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for August 31, 2018
By Emily Blahnik 
Los Angeles Times, Noise causes stress. Here’s why you need to seek out some silence by Alene Dawson — It’s a noisy planet. So much so that research calls noise pollution a “modern plague” and a threat to our health and well-being. “Noisy, chaotic environments increase stress levels, and chronic stress has been shown to… […]
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Tags: alzheimer's disease, Alzheimer’s walk, art center, arthritis, ASU, Austin Ferguson, Bradley Prigge, breast milk, carillon, clay, Dan Gaz, Diversity
March 23, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for March 23, 2018
By Emily Blahnik 
USA Today, ‘Highly fit’ middle-age women nearly 90% less likely to develop dementia decades later, study finds by Karen Weintraub — Maintaining a healthy lifestyle in mid-life, decades before disease sets in, makes sense, said David Knopman, a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, who was not involved in the study. […]
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Tags: 3D printing, A.L.S., affordable housing, allergies, alzheimer's disease, Amber Kohnhorst, arthritis, asthma, autism, Bailey Sevier, Billy Gillispie, blood donation
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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Tags: alzheimer's disease, back pain, blood pressure, brain surgery, Cancer, conjoined twins, Deanne Rothbauer, Dr. Bernard Bendok, Dr. Chetna Mangat, Dr. Colin West, Dr. David Dodick, Dr. David Knopman
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
November 17, 2017
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for November 17, 2017
By Karl Oestreich 
USA Today, Once paralyzed, Chris Norton vows to walk his fiancee down the aisle by Daniel P. Finney — Chris Norton’s long lifetime walk began in earnest on Oct. 16, 2010 — seven years ago Monday. He lay face down on the Luther College football field; his neck broken from a hard hit […]
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Tags: alzheimer's disease, Angel Flight Central, Breast Cancer, burpees, C. diff, Cancer Center at Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Healthcare in La Crosse, Chip Gay, Chris Norton, coffee, Dena Keilman, destination medical center, Destination Medical Center Discovery Square subdistrict
December 23, 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. This will be our last edition of 2016. Look for us again on January 6, 2017. Thank you and happy […]
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Tags: ABC15 Arizona, AccuWeather.com, advisory board, Affordable care act, Alatus, alcohol, Amber Kohnhorst, American Medical Association, anesthesia, Angie Murad, antibiotics, antidepressants