Items Tagged ‘Mount Everest’
December 9, 2016
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly 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 Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Emily Blahnik Los Angeles Times A senior-friendly workout to improve movement and […]
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May 17, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
May 17, 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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June 18, 2012
Anti Aging: Researchers Are Going To Infinity And Beyond For Anti-Aging Solutions
What do astronauts and mountain climbers have to do with your wrinkles or heart disease? A lot, thanks to recent studies that have researchers looking up for anti-aging solutions for ailments like skin damage to heart, lung and brain diseases. The high altitudes found at Mount Everest and the unique conditions of living in space […]
Tags: anti-aging solution, Huffington Post, Mount Everest, The Wall Street Journal
June 1, 2012
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
June 1, 2012 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 oestreich.karl@mayo.edu […]
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May 29, 2012
What Everest Teaches About Disease
Researchers are going to great lengths—or rather, great heights—to further their understanding of the heart, lungs and brain. A team of Mayo Clinic scientists recently accompanied climbers to Mount Everest to study the effects of high altitude. And researchers from the University of Colorado, Denver, are planning a high-altitude research trip to Bolivia with 24 […]
Tags: high altitude, Mount Everest, University of Colorado, Wall Street Journal
May 25, 2012
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
May 25, 2012 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 oestreich.karl@mayo.edu […]
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May 23, 2012
Everest Climbers Wear Biosensors to Help Scientists Study Disease
As a team of climbers inches toward the summit of Mount Everest, body sensors will monitor them day and night, collecting data to help researchers understand chronic illnesses like heart disease. Members of an expedition sponsored by National Geographic and The North Face are high-altitude lab rats for a Mayo Clinic initiative that’s tracking healthy […]
Tags: body sensors, Dr. Bryan Taylor, Everest Base Camp, Mount Everest, National Geographic, The North Face, Wired
May 18, 2012
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
May 18, 2012 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 oestreich.karl@mayo.edu […]
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May 15, 2012
Mayo Clinic Researchers Return from Mt. Everest
A team of Mayo Clinic researchers is back from a month long trip to Mount Everest. They studied the various effects altitude can have on your heart, lungs and sleeping patterns. It doesn’t matter, where you go, how you get there, or how fancy your living arrangements may be. “It’s about a 50 mile trek […]
Tags: altitude effects, Dr. Bruce Johnson, KAAL, Mount Everest
May 4, 2012
The Mother on the Mountain: Hilaree O’Neill, Live From Everest Base Camp
High-altitude alpinist Hilaree O’Neill is unlike most of her fellow climbers hunkered down at Everest Base Camp this week, waiting for a weather window to make their summit push. For starters, she came prepared to ski off the South Col. And out of some 600 alpinists vying for the top this season, she is one […]