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
The Gift of Life: Doctors see more organ donations from opioid overdoses
By Karl Oestreich
First Coast News by Heather Crawford As opioids claim more lives, doctors say they are seeing an uptick in lifesaving organ transplants. Opioid addiction is a growing health epidemic. Last year, opioid deaths increased 55 percent to 64,000 deaths in the U.S. “You know in the past, people were sometimes reluctant to use these as […]
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Tags: Dr. Kristopher Croome, First Coast News, organ transplants
June 12, 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. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor, Carmen Zwicker Boston Globe In the future, treatments tailored to […]
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Tags: Abu Dhabi firm, ALS disease, anesthesia in young children, Annual Forbes 400 Summit On Philanthropy, Arizona Daily Sun, Arizona Horizon, Arizona Public Media, Arizona Republic, artist Kurt Perschke, Assisted Reproductive Technology, ASU/Mayo Medical School, avatar mice
May 20, 2015
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
By Karl Oestreich
Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor, Carmen Zwicker 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. Florida Times-Union Jacksonville’s Mayo has breakthrough in treating ALS, […]
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Tags: ABC15 Phoenix, adult vaccinations, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE), American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), AP, ArcaMax, Arizona Republic, Artificial pancreas, autism, autoimmune diseases, bacterial infections