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 […]
Tags: 3D mammography, alzheimer's disease, Amazon, Beyoncé, BioSig, Blanchard Valley, blood donation, burnout, Cadence Neuroscience, Cancer, Center for Innovation, Cologuard
October 18, 2019
What is molecular breast imaging and who needs it?
Chicago Tribune Mammography screening for breast cancer saves lives. But another test may be better for women with dense breasts. Dr. Deborah Rhodes, an internal medicine specialist from the Breast Diagnostic Clinic at Mayo Clinic, says that data from a study being done at Mayo Clinic and other centers across the country suggest that molecular […]
Tags: Breast Cancer, Chicago Tribune, Dr. Deborah Rhodes, molecular breast imaging
August 14, 2015
Mayo Clinic In the News Highlights
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 Wall Street Journal When Patients Manage Doctors by […]
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July 24, 2015
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 The Wall Street Journal Doctors Object to High […]
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November 22, 2011
Breast cancer screening methods have little benefit: report
Breast cancer screening methods have little benefit: report, These undated images, provided by the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, shows a standard mammogram, left, and molecular breast imaging (MBI) from a study performed on a 45-year-old patient in the clinic’s screening of women with dense breasts. The mammogram was interpreted as being negative while the MBI […]
April 21, 2010
New breast imaging for Mayo Clinic patients…
Mayo Clinic has announced that it will soon offer a new type of imaging for patients worried about the possibility of breast cancer. “Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new tool that can solve this dilemma. Molecular breast imaging (MBI) is three times more effective than mammograms, but far less costly than other nuclear-medicine […]
Tags: molecular breast imaging
December 18, 2009
Gamma Medica-Ideas licenses Mayo’s molecular breast imaging technology
Gamma Medica-Ideas (GM-I) has signed an agreement with Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. to develop and commercialize a suite of molecular breast imaging technologies invented by a team of Mayo physicians and scientists… “We believe that the combination of GMI’s detector technology and the algorithms and techniques developed at Mayo, will enable us to […]
Tags: molecular breast imaging
December 15, 2009
Gamma Medica-Ideas Licenses Molecular Breast Imaging Technology From Mayo Clinic
Gamma Medica-Ideas, Inc. (“GMI”), a leading developer of digital molecular imaging systems, announced today that it has signed an exclusive license and commercialization agreement with Mayo Clinic to further develop and commercialize a suite of technologies invented by a team of Mayo physicians and scientists, headed by Michael O’Connor, PhD… Bradley Patt, CEO of […]