Items Tagged ‘First Coast News’
December 20, 2018
Teen with new heart hopes to head home for Christmas
First Coast News by Alexander Osiadacz A terrifying situation for a teenage athlete and his family as he collapsed, unresponsive at a basketball game. Jaylen Clausell has stacks of college letters and invitations from schools across the country. His first sport is football, but in March 2018 he was on the court for a school […]
Tags: Dr. Parag Patel, First Coast News, heart transplant, Jaylen Clausell
November 9, 2018
‘They’ve given me the greatest gift’: Revolutionary cancer treatment comes to Mayo Clinic
First Coast News by Juliette Dryer Tanis Milicevik and her family love to travel, but for so many years they were unable to plan ahead. Would she be well enough? Would she be getting cancer treatment? Milicevik was first diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma 10 years ago when the younger of her two sons was just […]
Tags: Cancer, CAR-T cell therapy, Dr. Mohamed Kharfan Dabaja, First Coast News, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Tanis Milicevik
November 2, 2018
New technology connects doctors with stroke patients while in ambulance
First Coast News by Juliette Dryer Every minute matters when someone has a stroke, new technology in Northeast Florida is cutting down response time by connecting doctors with patients before the ambulance ever arrives at the hospital. “Stroke is extremely common,” Dr. David Freeman, professor of neurology and neurosurgery at Mayo Clinic said. Freeman said […]
Tags: Dr. David Freeman, Dr. David Siegel, First Coast News, stroke, telestroke
October 18, 2018
Breast cancer vaccine that could save generations now in clinical trials at Mayo Clinic
First Coast News by Lana Harris Tens of thousands of women die annually from breast cancer, but soon, the number could decrease. Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville is working on a vaccine for triple negative breast cancer that could someday save millions. While the vaccine is still in clinical trials, doctors say they are very excited […]
Tags: breast cancer vaccine, Dr. Saranya Chumsri, First Coast News, Stacy Hanson
August 23, 2018
Sinusitis is a condition which can be aggravated by hot and humid climates
First Coast News What can seem like just a cold, can turn out to be much more serious. Mayo Clinic doctor Angela Donaldson tells us more about this condition. Reach: First Coast News refers to three television stations in Jacksonville, Florida. WJXX, the ABC affiliate; WTLV, the NBC affiliate; and WCWJ, the CW affiliate. Context: Angela Donaldson, […]
August 6, 2018
Man takes cross-country bike trip to raise money and awareness for rare cancer
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 […]
Tags: Christopher Edgerton, Dr. Sikander Ailawadhi, First Coast News, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
June 15, 2018
WAITING GAME | Difficult surgery done in Jacksonville changes how transplant patients get listed
First Coast News by Lindsey Boetsch A unique kind of transplant done at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville gave a man years, if not decades, instead of hours…”One side of his chest was extremely small, really compacted from his disease. So, we could never get the same donor’s lungs to match both sides,” said Mayo […]
May 16, 2018
Melanoma survivor: Just checking your skin goes a long way
First Coast News by Juliette Dryer More than 91,000 new melanomas will be diagnosed in 2018, according to the American Cancer Society. One Nocatee woman never expected to be one of them. “I’ve been running for many years,” Cynthia Ryan said. “I’ve done 30 marathons, so I spend a lot of time outside.”… “We live […]
Tags: Dermatology, Dr. Scott Fosco, First Coast News, melanoma, skin cancer
April 27, 2018
Mayo Clinic: Talking about the future of lungs
First Coast News Dr. Cesar Keller, appears live as a guest on Good Morning Jacksonville. Dr. Keller discussed the future of lung transplantation. Reach: First Coast News refers to three television stations in Jacksonville, Florida. WJXX, the ABC affiliate; WTLV, the NBC affiliate; and WCWJ, the CW affiliate. Context: Cesar Keller, M.D. is a Mayo Clinic critical care […]
April 20, 2018
New Alzheimer’s definition could help prevent onset of symptoms
First Coast News by Juliette Dryer When you think of Alzheimer’s Disease, you likely imagine the confusion, memory loss and other symptoms that go along with it. Under a new framework for Alzheimer’s Research, the disease would no longer be defined by these symptoms, but rather by physical characteristics in the brain. Dr. Neill Graff-Radford, […]
Tags: alzheimer's disease, Dr. Neill Graff-Radford, First Coast News, Medical research