June 23, 2017
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
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 New York Times Who Really Needs to Be Gluten-Free? by Jane […]
Tags: AccuWeather, ActionNewsJax, Angie Jarrett, Angie Murad, Archery Trade Association, Arizona Republic, BBC Mundo, Becker’s Hospital Review, BioFlorida, bowhunting, Breast Cancer, Bustle
January 16, 2013
Levine Named Co-Director of Mayo Clinic/ASU Obesity Solutions Initiative
James A. Levine, professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic and a world-renowned leader in obesity research and child advocacy, has been named co-director of the Mayo Clinic/Arizona State University Obesity Solutions Initiative. Levine has been appointed a tenured professor in ASU’s School of the Science of Health Care Delivery in the College of Health Solutions, as […]
Tags: Arizona State University, Bioscience Technology, child advocacy, co-director, Dr. James A. Levine, Obesity, Obesity Solutions Initiative, School of Life Sciences, School of the Science of Health Care Delivery
June 21, 2012
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
June 21, 2012 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. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations NY […]
Tags: alzheimer's disease, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Chemotherapy, Chicago Tribune, Dr. James A. Levine, Dr. John Black, Dr. John Noseworthy, Esther H. Krych, Florida Times-Union, ginseng, government funding
June 20, 2012
To Stay on Schedule, Take a Break
A growing body of evidence shows that taking regular breaks from mental tasks improves productivity and creativity — and that skipping breaks can lead to stress and exhaustion… Mostly, though, workers don’t take enough breaks — especially breaks involving movement, says James A. Levine, a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic. He has done […]
Tags: Dr. James A. Levine, mental break, NY Times
May 29, 2012
Meet Jason, chirps James A. Levine, Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, in his book Move a Little, Lose a Lot. “Jason was a self-defined ‘gamer’ who spent the vast majority of his non-work time plopped on the sofa moving little but his thumbs and forefingers as he slayed villains and […]
Tags: Dr. James A. Levine, NEAT, video games, Xbox 360 Magazine
December 6, 2011
Don’t Just Sit There, Work Out at Your Desk
EVERY day, millions of American workers do something dangerous to their health: they sit down. Sitting for long periods is hard on the body. It strains the back and causes the muscles to become slack. It slows the processes that metabolize calories, increasing the risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and some cancers…In 2007, Mr. […]
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