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January 17, 2020

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for January 17, 2020

By Emily Blahnik

USA Today, Drinking tea regularly may help you live longer and healthier, new study finds by Joshua Bote — The study also acknowledged that the positive benefits of tea were more robust in men than women. Dr. Eugenia Gianos, the director of women’s heart health at New York City’s Lenox Hill Hospital, said that may […]

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Tags: aging, AI, alzheimer's disease, artificial Intelligence, birth defects, brain health, Cheeriodicals, cross-country skiing, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, Don Elliott, Dr. Angela Mattke


August 17, 2018

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for August 17, 2018

By Emily Blahnik

Wall Street Journal, Troubling Rise in Pregnancy-Related Heart Problems by Sumathi Reddy— The number of women having heart attacks before, during and after deliveries increased by 25% from 2002 through 2013, according to a study published in July in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Around 4.5% of women who had heart attacks died, a high […]

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Tags: adenomyosis, Amy Stelpflug, back to school, Ben Roethlisberger, blood pressure, Breast Cancer, c-section, Cathy Fraser, Cologuard, colonoscopy, cyber security, Cyndi Lauper


August 6, 2018

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for August 3, 2018

By Emily Blahnik

Washington Post, Hookworms burrowed into a teenager’s skin during a trip to Florida. You can’t unsee these images. by Lindsey Bever — There are two main types of hookworm: human hookworms and animal, or zoonotic, hookworms. Bobbi Pritt, director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory in the Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, said […]

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Tags: Alan Alda, alzheimer's disease, Aneurysms, Biogen, birth control pills, blood cancer, breast cancer research, breastfeeding, Bryan Duncan, Cancer, CAR-T cell, diets


August 6, 2018

Man takes cross-country bike trip to raise money and awareness for rare cancer

By Karl Oestreich

First Coast News by Lindsey Boetsch Chances are, you never heard of the cancer, Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia. It’s a non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. It’s very rare and only 1,000 to 1,500 people are diagnosed each year. There’s not a lot of research and funding for it, but, Christopher Edgerton is trying to change that.  “There sort of isn’t […]

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Tags: Christopher Edgerton, Dr. Sikander Ailawadhi, First Coast News, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma


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


February 23, 2018

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for February 23, 2018

By Emily Blahnik

      Reader’s Digest, 15 Things Neurologists Do to Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease by Kim Fredericks — Alzheimer’s disease is the leading cause of dementia, accounting for approximately 80 percent of dementia cases and affecting more than 5.5 million people in the United States. But all dementia is not Alzheimer’s, says David Knopman, MD, a […]

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Tags: Alynn Dukart, alzheimer's disease, angel gowns, Ashton Kutcher, Berta Lippert, Bill Graham, blood pressure, brain cancer, burnout, clinical trials, cognitive decline, colon polyps


December 15, 2017

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for December 15, 2017

By Karl Oestreich

      New York Times, Sleep vs. Exercise? by Karen Weintraub — Desiree Ahrens, a certified health and wellness coach at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said that for the time-starved, there are ways to sneak exercise into the day without heading to the gym or a formal exercise class. Running up the […]

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Tags: addiction, aging, alzheimer's disease, anxiety, Balloon Brigade, Biofourmis, brain surgery, Breast Cancer, burnout, Children's Memorial Day, concussion, Desiree Ahrens


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


February 10, 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   Neurology Today The Neurologist as National Health Care Leader: Mayo Clinic’s […]

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