February 15, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for February 15, 2019
By Emily Blahnik 
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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Tags: Alexa, alzheimer's disease, Amy Klobuchar, Barney Barnhart, black history month, blood sugar, Carson Wentz, Cathy Deimeke, cholla cactus, CREST, Criss Ross, Donna Marathon
February 8, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for February 8, 2019
By Emily Blahnik 
Washington Post, Daily exercise, even just a brisk walk, has been shown to lower blood pressure by William B. Farquhar — Often, there are no signs or symptoms of hypertension, which is why it is referred to as the “silent killer.” Even among adults who have been diagnosed with hypertension, nearly half do not have […]
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Tags: Alliance to HEAL, alzheimer's disease, anxiety, Breast Cancer, cognitive decline, cold, cold weather, CPR, Cybersecurity, destination medical center, diet, DMC
April 6, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for April 6, 2018
By Emily Blahnik 
Reuters, Many in U.S. take more calcium supplements than necessary by Lisa Rapaport — The study wasn’t a controlled experiment designed to prove whether or how calcium supplements might help or harm health…Still, results add to the evidence that use of calcium supplements is declining, in part out of safety concerns, said […]
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Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Billy Gillispie, boot camp workouts, burnout, C-Sections, calcium, cancer vaccine, clinical trials, condom snorting, dementia, destination medical center, diabetes
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
March 16, 2018
Being sleepy during the day could be a warning sign of alzheimer’s
By Karl Oestreich 
TIME by Alice Park Prashanthi Vemuri, an associate professor of radiology at the Mayo Clinic, and her colleagues wanted to address a puzzling problem in the field. Studies showed that people with Alzheimer’s disease tend to have disrupted sleep, which made sense: biological studies have recently revealed that while the brain sleeps, it clears away […]
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Tags: alzheimer's disease, Dr. Prashanthi Vemuri, healthy lifestyle and aging, JAMA Neurology, TIME
March 9, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for March 9, 2018
By Emily Blahnik 
Slate, Type 1 Diabetes Is No Longer Just for Kids by Amy McKinnon — Exactly how many adults with Type 1 diabetes are misdiagnosed each year in the United States is hard to track. Regina Castro, an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic, estimates that anywhere between 10 to 30 percent of adults […]
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Tags: 3-D printing, allergies, artificial Intelligence, Billy Graham, Breast Cancer, burnout, Cancer, cancer treatment, Center for Innovation, Christopher Ross, colds, colon cancer
April 21, 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 Chicago Tribune Are heartburn medicines linked to a serious gut infection? […]
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Tags: Albert Lea Tribune, Albuequerque Journal, alzheimer's disease, Analtica, Arizona State University, ASU, Atlantic Broadband, Austin Daily Herald, Becker's ASC Review, Becker’s Hospital Review, Bloomberg, Bone Health Clinic
March 11, 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. Thank you. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Carmen Zwicker International Business Times Betting On Cancer: Phoenix Aims To Become Oncology […]
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Tags: 24news.ca, AARP, alzheimer's disease, Alzheimer’s Research Center at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Amazon.com, Ambient Clinical Analytics, APoE4 gene, Associated Press, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atypical Afib, AWARE, bariatric patients
March 4, 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 Star Tribune Mayo to livestream a colonoscopy to boost screenings […]
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Tags: ActionNewsJax, AWARE (Ambient Warning and Response Evaluation), bad breath, Bloomberg News, BMI, Bring Me the News, Business Insider, Busy Brains Delay Alzheimer's, Canada Free Press, cancer distress, carotid endarterectomy (CEA), carotid-artery stenosis
February 26, 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 Florida Times-Union Stenting and surgery equally effective in treating a […]
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Tags: AARP, ABC 6 News, ABC Salud, ACS Surgery News, Advisory, Alto Nivel, alzheimers, amyloid deposition, anti-ageing drugs, APoE4 gene, Arizona Daily Star, Attn.com