Items Tagged ‘Mayo Clinic College of Medicine’

March 12, 2015

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

By Karl Oestreich

Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor, Carmen Zwicker 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.   Star Tribune Mayo’s record financial results run counter to […]

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May 22, 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   TIME Measles Vaccine Cures Woman […]

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May 24, 2013

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

By Karl Oestreich

    May 24, 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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March 7, 2013

U.S. panel votes against calcitonin salmon bone drug

By Logan Lafferty

But other panelists said the drugs are an important option for patients who have bad reactions to newer drugs, including bisphosphonate drugs like Fosamax. “We have a whole lot of patients who can’t take the other drugs, and I think our patients would be in worse shape without this,” said Bart Clark, professor at the […]

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Tags: calcitonin, CTV, Dr. Bart Clark, Fosamax, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine


February 21, 2013

Making Newer Antiepileptic Drugs Available to Children

By Logan Lafferty

More research on AUDs for pediatric epilepsy is critical, according to Raj D. Sheth, M.D., chief of neurology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Jacksonville, FL. “The lack of information makes it difficult for neurologists, who have to prescribe off  label; difficult for the insurance companies, who often restrict medications if they’re not clearly […]

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Tags: antiepileptic drugs, AUDs, Dr. Raj D. Sheth, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Neurology Now, pediatric epilepsy


February 21, 2013

Medical Marijuana: Voodoo or Legitimate Therapeutic Choice?

By Logan Lafferty

Dr. J. Michael Bostwick wrote the “pro” argument for offering Marilyn marijuana. Bostwick, a professor in the department of psychiatry and psychology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, in Rochester, Minn., said he told the editors at the New England Journal of Medicine that he could have made the case for either side. He had a […]

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Tags: Dr. J. Michael Bostwick, HealthDay, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, medical marijuana, New England Journal of Medicine


July 30, 2012

mHealth Congress: Social Media, Games Provide ‘Digital Fireplace’ for Health Community

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To tap into the potential of social media for advancing health, providers and developers need to go where the people are and must change their thinking to a person-centered model of engagement…When professional baseball player Jayson Werth suffered a ulnotriquetral ligament split tear in 2005, doctors were at first unable to successfully diagnose and relieve […]

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Tags: CMIO, Dr. Farris Timimi, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, twitter, ulnotriquetral ligament split tear


February 24, 2012

There once was a lack of cadavers

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With dissection-ready cadavers in short supply and class sizes burgeoning, an Ottawa professor has come up with an unusual tool to teach the complexities of human anatomy: limericks…That fits well with a modern educational approach that focuses less on rote, passive teaching of anatomy, and more on active learning by teams of students, said Dr. […]

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Tags: anatomy-department chair, Dr. Wojciech Pawlina, limericks used to teach human anatomy, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine


February 17, 2012

New Tool Improves Newborn Screening Accuracy

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A new approach to analyzing metabolite levels in newborn blood samples decreases the likelihood of false-negatives and false-positives, according to results from a new study by Gregg Marquardt, MSS, from the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, and colleagues. The study was published online February 16 in Genetics […]

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Tags: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Gregg Marquardt, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, metabolite levels, newborn blood samples


February 7, 2012

A second opinion on unclogging arteries: Catheters through wrist, not groin

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…David Holmes, the president of the American College of Cardiology and a professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, said he expected the wrist approach to become more and more prominent as the technology and the training develops. “The U.S. still lag behind the rest of the world in this regard,” he […]

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Tags: American College of Cardiology, David Holmes, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine


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