September 27, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for September 27, 2019
By Emily Blahnik
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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June 14, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for June 14, 2019
By Emily Blahnik
CNN, Changing your meat-eating habits could mean a longer life, study suggests by Jacqueline Howard — The study provides “valuable and informative” data regarding the associations of red meat with poor health outcomes, said Dr. Heather Fields, an internal medicine specialist at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, who was not involved in the research. “We’ve also […]
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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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March 23, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for March 23, 2018
By Emily Blahnik
USA Today, ‘Highly fit’ middle-age women nearly 90% less likely to develop dementia decades later, study finds by Karen Weintraub — Maintaining a healthy lifestyle in mid-life, decades before disease sets in, makes sense, said David Knopman, a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, who was not involved in the study. […]
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March 16, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for March 16, 2018
By Emily Blahnik
New York Times, Black Cancer Matters by Susan Gubar — Given the mortality discrepancies, it is disturbing that African-Americans are underrepresented as subjects in cancer research, as are other minorities. According to research by Dr. Narjust Duma of the Mayo Clinic, only 6 percent of participants in clinical trials are black, although […]
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March 16, 2018
Higher enrollment in breast cancer trials through IBM computing system
By Karl Oestreich
KAAL Mayo Clinic is partnering with IBM Watson Health to help physicians match cancer patients to clinical trials. More patients are enrolling in Mayo’s breast cancer clinical trials, giving them another chance. “Right now only five percent of patients with cancer participate in clinical trials. The number one reason why patients don’t participate in studies […]
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Tags: artificial Intelligence, Breast Cancer, clinical trials, Dr. Tufia Haddad, gastrointestinal cancer, IBM, IBM Watson, KAAL, Lung Cancer
April 15, 2016
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. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Carmen Zwicker New York Times Millions With Leg Pain Have Peripheral Artery Disease […]
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September 4, 2015
Mayo Clinic In the News 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. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Carmen Zwicker New York Times New Alternatives to Statins Add to a Quandary […]
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