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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Tags: “healthy for humans” features, 4Hoteliers, a scheduling tool for doctors, Aging Cell, aging patients, Albert Lea Tribune, alternative to traditional fertility preservation techniques, Anti-aging drugs, AP, Arizona Family, autoimmune arthritis, Autopsies Can Teach
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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Tags: 12 Habits of Highly Healthy People, 2014 Recognition of Outstanding Contribution Award, 2018 Super Bowl, Advance for Occupational Therapy Practitioners, Advance Healthcare Network for Nurses, Alaska, All About Jazz, alzheimer's disease, Amy Purdy, antibiotics, antiviral medications, Arizona Republic
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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Tags: American Liver Foundation, anxiety, Appalachian News-Express, Barchester Health, Big News Network, biliary cancer, BreakThrough Digest, Business Standard, Camp Wabi, cancer cells, CBS Atlanta, child psyschology
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