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December 9, 2016

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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December 4, 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 Star Tribune Mayo lobbies U.S. panel to accept noninvasive colon cancer […]

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August 21, 2014

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 Public Radio International Science Friday: Measles becomes […]

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January 17, 2014

January 17, 2014 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 NY Times Ask Well: Is […]

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May 17, 2013

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 […]

Paralyzed Rats Walk Again, Thanks to Electricity, Chemicals—And Chocolate

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June 1, 2012

Wearing a robotic harness, paralyzed rats have been made to walk again, according to a new study—albeit with an oddly upright, humanlike gait and while stimulated by judicious jolts of electricity and chemicals. It’s the first time severely injured spinal cords have been reawakened, say researchers, who add that the technique might hold some promise […]

Can Sugar Make You Stupid? “High Concern” in Wake of Rat Study

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May 24, 2012

We all know sugary diets can sabotage a waistline. Now it turns out they might make brains flabby too. Sweet drinks scrambled the memories and stunted learning in lab rats in a new study—leading to “thigh concern” over what sugary diets may do to people, according to neuroscientist Fernando Gomez-Pinilla.…The next task for the team […]

Everest Climbers Wear Biosensors to Help Scientists Study Disease

Tags: Dr. Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, Dr. Jill Barnes, National Geographic, sugar

May 23, 2012

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 […]

Mayo Clinic Researcher Calls From Mount Everest

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May 8, 2012

After eight days at high altitude, Mayo Clinic lead Mount Everest investigator Bruce Johnson is out of breath when he makes satellite phone calls to the U.S. “I’m calling from Mount Everest Base Camp,” he said last week, apologizing for his labored breathing at an altitude of about 17,500 feet. The Mayo research team is […]