December 1, 2017
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for December 1, 2017
By Karl Oestreich 
CNN, How marriage might be linked to lower dementia risk by Jacqueline Howard — The researchers found no evidence that dementia risk in divorced people differed from those who were married, and they could not examine whether the duration of being widowed or divorced had any influence on the findings. With pooled […]
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Tags: Alatus project, antibiotics, artificial Intelligence, biomedical sciences, blood pressure guidelines, Breast Cancer, breast imaging, Cancer, carpal tunnel syndrome, Chris Wendt, Cologuard, colon cancer
December 1, 2017
Intense pain. Debilitating weakness. What was driving a young man to the brink of death?
By Karl Oestreich 
STAT by Allison Bond …McEwen took his advice and booked an appointment at Mayo with neurologist Dr. Sarah Berini. When she saw him in clinic, her first impression was how debilitated McEwen had become. He was incredibly thin and very weak, unable to move his arms at all. “He was very young and very, very […]
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Tags: autonomic neuropathy, Dr. Sarah Berini, peripheral neuropathy, porphyria, STAT