December 7, 2017
Real America with Jorge Ramos: Dr. Q’s American Dream
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 […]
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’
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 […]
Tags: Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Florida Times-Union, neurosurgery
November 22, 2017
“Awake Brain Surgery” at Mayo Clinic in Arizona
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 […]
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?
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. […]
Tags: brain surgery, Dr. Fredric Meyer, neurosurgery, ScienceDaily
November 17, 2017
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for November 17, 2017
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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August 12, 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 Buzzfeed What You Should Know About Zika If You’re Going […]
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June 14, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
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
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 […]
Tags: Dr. Jonathan Bledsoe, neurosurgery, quadriplegic, WEAU