Items Tagged ‘neurosurgery’

December 7, 2017

Real America with Jorge Ramos: Dr. Q’s American Dream

By Karl Oestreich

Fusion TV Jorge Ramos scrubs in for surgery with Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, or Dr. Q, a world-renowned neurosurgeon, as he tries to remove a brain tumor from a patient who will be awake the entire time. More Dr. Q on Real America with Jorge Ramos: Fusion TV Meet Dr. Q Fusion TV Watch Dr. Q […]

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Tags: brain surgery, Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Fusion TV, neurosurgery


November 30, 2017

Doctor’s long journey from Mexican poverty to trying to ‘cure the world’

By Karl Oestreich

Florida Times-Union by Charlie Patton When Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa was approached last year about coming to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville as the William J. and Charles H. Mayo professor and chairman of the department of neurologic surgery, he was thinking about his legacy. Dr. Q, as he is known to colleagues, calculated he had already […]

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Tags: Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Florida Times-Union, neurosurgery


November 22, 2017

“Awake Brain Surgery” at Mayo Clinic in Arizona

By Karl Oestreich

ABC 15 Arizona by Danielle Lerner Patients playing the piano during brain surgery? It’s called “Awake Brain Surgery,” and it’s growing in popularity at Mayo Clinic. The patient is asleep for most of the procedure and doesn’t feel any pain. It is especially helpful when removing brain tumors where the goal is to preservefunction and […]

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Tags: ABC 15 Arizona, awake brain surgery, Dr. Bernard Bendok, neurosurgery


November 22, 2017

Study asks neurosurgeons: How old is too old to perform brain surgery?

By Karl Oestreich

Science Daily People sometimes joke that easy tasks are “not brain surgery.” But what happens when it actually is brain surgery? How old is too old to be a neurosurgeon? In a new Mayo Clinic Proceedings study, most neurosurgeons disagreed with an absolute age cutoff, but half favored additional testing for neurosurgeons 65 and older. […]

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Tags: brain surgery, Dr. Fredric Meyer, neurosurgery, ScienceDaily


November 17, 2017

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for November 17, 2017

By Karl Oestreich

      USA Today, Once paralyzed, Chris Norton vows to walk his fiancee down the aisle by Daniel P. Finney — Chris Norton’s long lifetime walk began in earnest on Oct. 16, 2010 — seven years ago Monday. He lay face down on the Luther College football field; his neck broken from a hard hit […]

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Tags: alzheimer's disease, Angel Flight Central, Breast Cancer, burpees, C. diff, Cancer Center at Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Healthcare in La Crosse, Chip Gay, Chris Norton, coffee, Dena Keilman, destination medical center, Destination Medical Center Discovery Square subdistrict


August 12, 2016

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. Editor, Karl Oestreich;  Assistant Editor: Emily Blahnik   Buzzfeed What You Should Know About Zika If You’re Going […]

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Tags: ABC News, accupuncture, Addyson Cordes, AOL News, arthritis, Astrobiology, Becker’s Orthopedic & Spine, Best Hospitals, blood test, brain tumor, Breast Cancer, breast microbiome


July 17, 2013

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

By Karl Oestreich

    July 19, 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 14, 2013

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

By Karl Oestreich

    June 14, 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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October 12, 2012

Swimmer Walks Again After Injuring Spinal Cord

By Kelley Luckstein

Last October, 26 year-old swimmer Michael Moulton was diagnosed a C-6 quadriplegic after a diving accident at Ray’s Beach.  For months he was only able to move his shoulders and biceps. But, he takes us back to the day the accident happened and how miracles can come true… “We got an emergent MRI which shows […]

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Tags: Dr. Jonathan Bledsoe, neurosurgery, quadriplegic, WEAU


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