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
January 11, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for January 11, 2019
By Emily Blahnik
USA Today, A medical rarity: Two patients get back-to-back, triple-organ transplants by Ken Altucker — …Mayo Clinic Rochester has completed 100 multi-organ transplants, including four heart-liver-kidney transplants, said Alfredo Clavell, Mayo Rochester’s medical director of the heart transplant program. Clavell agreed that a new liver often allows patients to take lower levels of anti-rejection drugs […]
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Tags: anxiety, artificial Intelligence, blood drive, Cancer, Chron's disease, Civica Rx, concussion, diet, Dr. Alfredo Clavell, Dr. Amy L. Lightner, Dr. Charles Peters, Dr. Claude Deschamps
April 27, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for April 27, 2018
By Emily Blahnik
CBS News, East Asian tick species arrives in New Jersey, could carry dangerous virus — It’s the East Asian tick, sometimes called a longhorned or bush tick. Originally found in Asia, thousands of them are now in the Garden State. …That’s a problem, because like the deer ticks that spread Lyme […]
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Tags: Alan Bersten, allergies, alzheimer's disease, anesthesia, Angela L. Murad, antidepressant, Avicii, Barbara Bush, belly fat, Billy Gillispie, breastfeeding, C. Difficile
January 15, 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. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations TODAY A walk a day may keep […]
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Tags: 2014 Mankato Meltdown, 26.2 with Donna Marathon, 4029 TV, 5 KJZZ, ABC News, ABC15 Phoenix, Acento Veintiuno, advisory board, aging, American College of Cardiology, American Spectator, Anesthesia News
May 2, 2014
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. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations NY Times Move Over, Tennis Elbow; Wrist Injuries […]
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Tags: 2014 Annual Conference on Vaccine Research, 5k SCADaddle for Research, A.L.S., ABC News, Alabama, AllVoices, alzheimer's disease, American College of Cardiology, american heart association, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, AP, arm injuries
September 13, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
By Karl Oestreich
September 13, 2013 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. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media […]
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Tags: Angie Stransky, anorexia nervosa, AP, Arizona Republic, Arizona State University, Associated Press, Austin, Austin Herald, Barb Spurrier, bioscience, blood, blood donation phobias
October 16, 2009
Some Food Allergies Make For Tough Medical Diagnosis
By Kelley Luckstein
Dr. James Li says some food allergies can be tricky to diagnose. For example, it’s easy to tell if someone’s allergic to peanuts because they can immediately get hives and have difficulty breathing… That’s because there’s not been a reliable test to confirm the presence of the specific cells involved. But now, Dr. Li and […]
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Tags: food allergies