November 15, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for November 15, 2019
By Emily Blahnik 
NBC News, New NASA study finds long-haul danger for astronauts: Blood flow in reverse by Denise Chow — Spaceflight can halt and even reverse blood flow in astronauts’ upper bodies, a NASA report said Wednesday, a startling discovery that has important implications for future trips to Mars and other long-duration missions…“Medicine in space is a […]
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Tags: alzheimer's disease, anxiety, blood donation program, Breast Cancer, burning mouth syndrome, Cancer, cannabis, Carla Brunsvold, Carrie Apuan, CHAMPs, Chemotherapy, Cindy Shireman
November 8, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for November 8, 2019
By Emily Blahnik 
Quartz, Rare genetic mutations protected a woman from developing Alzheimer’s by Katherine Ellen Foley — This case study “leads us to think about the importance of such studies in relatively understudied populations,” says Nilufer Ertekin-Taner, a neurogeneticist with the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, who was not involved with the study. Scientific knowledge of the […]
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Tags: Andrea Malenya, Anne Bauch, anxiety, artificial Intelligence, bariatric surgery, biotech, Breast Cancer, Bu, Cancer, cardiovascular disease, Chemotherapy, Children's Center
May 11, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for May 11, 2018
By Emily Blahnik 
Toronto Star, A political prescription from the Mayo Clinic by Robin Sears — For the 1.3 million patients to whom the Mayo Clinic provides treatment each year, experience could not be more different than what we are used to in our hospitals. “Patient first” is not a marketing slogan, it is […]
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Tags: 3D printing, Alatus, Andrew Yori, biobank, Breast Cancer, Brittany Burnham, child maltreatment, Dr. Aditya Shah, Dr. Bradley C. Leibovich, Dr. Catherine Madaffari, Dr. Cathy Newman, Dr. Donald Hensrud
February 17, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for February 17, 2018
By Emily Blahnik 
Vox, How many calories Olympians eat by Julia Belluz — While it may be true that Olympians sometimes cut loose, their diets tend to be remarkably junk food-free — and highly optimized for performance. Athletes are looking for any edge. Increasingly, that means practicing extreme caution about what foods they use as […]
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January 20, 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 CNBC Important not to lose ground on ACA Dr. John Noseworthy, […]
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Tags: "liquid biopsies", ACA, acupuncture, aging, alzheimers, Arizona Republic, baby powder, blood donation, Bloomberg, Bradly Prigge, breastfeeding, C. Difficile
January 13, 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 First Coast News The Chat Wednesday January 11: Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa […]
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February 19, 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 Heather Privett with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Carmen Zwicker New York Times Ask Well: Are Pomegranates Good For You? […]
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Tags: ABC 15 Arizona, ABC News, ABC15's Rally for Red, Advances in Radiation Oncology Journal, Alzforum, Arizona Horizon (PBS), Arizona Republic, Augustine Record, basal carcinoma, Becker’s Hospital Review, bioresorbable vascular scaffolds (BVS), Bloomberg News
February 12, 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 Heather Privett with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Carmen Zwicker Forbes A New Bacteria Causing Lyme Disease Discovered – Borrelia […]
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April 17, 2015
Mayo Clinic In the News Weekly Highlights
By Karl Oestreich 
Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor, Carmen Zwicker Yahoo! Health Herpes From a Tanning Bed? It’s Possible by Amanda Chan A whopping number of people still use tanning beds (about one in three U.S. adults say they’ve used one before, according to 2014 data), despite the fact that they’re known to cause skin cancer. But if the […]
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Tags: "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, “CDTX” experiment, “On the Move” program, 20 Minutos Mexico, ABC News, ABC15 Arizona, Albert Lea Tribune, alzheimers, an overuse injury, Anticonvulsant may exacerbate eating disorders, Antipsychotic medications, Apple HealthKit integration
February 6, 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. Karl Oestreich, director, media relations AP Obama Proposes ‘Precision Medicine’ To End One-Size-Fits-All by […]
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Tags: 9News Colo., ABC News, ABC7News Calif., Action News Jacksonville, Affordable care act, Al Jazeera America, All Access, alzheimers, American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), American Heart Month, antibiotic-resistant infections, AP