Items Tagged ‘hot flashes’
March 6, 2020
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for March 6, 2020
TIME, You Can Learn a Lot About Yourself From a DNA Test. Here’s What Your Genes Cannot Tell You by Libby Copeland — …What is a consumer to believe? A few years ago, Helix, originally a spin-out of genomics giant Illumina (which makes many of the chips and machines used to analyze DNA), unveiled a […]
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October 18, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for October 18, 2019
Wall Street Journal, Amazon Joins Trend of Sending Workers Away for Health Care by Melanie Evans — Employers are increasingly going the distance to control health spending, paying to send workers across the country to get medical care and bypassing local health-care providers….Walmart workers diagnosed with breast, lung or colorectal cancer can travel to the […]
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October 11, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for October 11, 2019
Wall Street Journal, Doctors Limit What to Tell Patients About Their DNA Test. Should They? by Melanie Evans and Anna Wilde Mathews — The Mayo Clinic is scanning 20,000 genes for thousands of patients to study genes’ role in disease. It will hand over results for just 59. Mayo will look for certain disease-causing gene […]
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September 27, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for September 27, 2019
Reuters, Patients, doctors may not share priorities for chronic diseases by Carolyn Crist — Patients and doctors often have different views about which chronic health conditions are their top priorities, suggests a study in France. After separate surveys of patients and their physicians, researchers found that priorities matched up for some conditions, such as diabetes […]
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February 8, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for February 8, 2019
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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December 21, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for December 21, 2018
Happy holidays! Mayo Clinic in the News will be taking a week off. We’ll be back on January 4, 2019. Wall Street Journal, How pilates helps fight atrophy by Jen Murphy — Pilates can be particularly helpful for people with stability and motor-related issues, says Jane Hein, a physical therapist and lead Pilates instructor at the Mayo […]
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December 14, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for December 14, 2018
HealthDay, AHA: Exercise After Heart Attack May Improve Survival — The study supports exercise as “one of the most important medicines people can take before cardiac events but, in particular, after them as well,” said Dr. Randal Thomas, medical director of the cardiac rehabilitation program at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. The study sends […]
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December 14, 2018
Incontinence drug may cut hot flashes in breast cancer survivors
HealthDay by Steven Reinberg Hot flashes, a common curse in menopause, can be especially bothersome after breast cancer. But a new study suggests an existing medication may help. The drug is oxybutynin (Ditropan XL), long used to treat urinary incontinence. The study found that women taking the medicine had an average of five fewer hot […]
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June 7, 2018
Menopause symptoms can last decades
Post-Bulletin By Anne Halliwell According to a new Mayo Clinic study, menopause symptoms can continue into later life. The study, published in the Journal of the North American Menopause Society, gathered data from nearly 5,000 women. “The number of women in the study who both reported and sought care for symptom management shines a light […]
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January 12, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for January 12, 2018
Reuters, Hot flashes caused by cancer therapy can be prevented, treated by Carolyn Crist — Dr. Charles Loprinzi of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who has researched cancer symptoms for more than 25 years, told Reuters Health by phone, “One patient told me that in the winter, she’d get in […]
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