March 6, 2020
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for March 6, 2020
By Emily Blahnik 
TIME, You Can Learn a Lot About Yourself From a DNA Test. Here’s What Your Genes Cannot Tell You by Libby Copeland — …What is a consumer to believe? A few years ago, Helix, originally a spin-out of genomics giant Illumina (which makes many of the chips and machines used to analyze DNA), unveiled a […]
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Tags: Adam Francis, alzheimer's disease, Angel Eye, arthritis, brain aneurysm, brain tumors, Breast Cancer, Caring Canines, Clinic Data Analytics, colon polyps Dr. Darin Presser, concussions, coronavirus
December 19, 2019
All in the family
By Karl Oestreich 
Albert Lea Tribuneby Sarah Stultz One mother and her daughters are fulfilling their wish to help people through their jobs at Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea. Mother Shari Anderson, 51, has worked at Mayo Clinic for 32 years, starting first in 1987 as a health unit coordinator on the medical/surgical floor of the […]
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Tags: Albert Lea Tribune, Jenna Anderson, Nursing, Sarah Anderson, Shari Anderson
August 22, 2019
85-year-old nurse celebrates 63 years of nursing
By Karl Oestreich 
FOX 10 Phoenixby Anita Roman On any given day, Donna Alger either sees patients or makes calls to prep them for surgery. She works as a registered nurse in the pre-operative evaluation clinic. She’s been with the Mayo Clinic for 14 years. “You will see by my age we had an opportunity to be a […]
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Tags: Donna Alger, FOX10 Phoenix, Mayo Clinic nurses, Nursing
July 12, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for July 12, 2019
By Emily Blahnik 
Science, Even if you don’t play contact sports, you could develop signs of traumatic brain injury by Sabine Galvis — Scientists looking for a link between repeated brain trauma and lasting neurological damage typically study the brains of soldiers or football players. But it’s unclear whether this damage—known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)—is prevalent in […]
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Tags: air quality, alzheimer's disease, Amazon Alexa, anxiety, ASCO, babysitting, belly fat, Chad Corey, Charles Allie, Cheryl Hadaway, Cognitive Impairment, dementia
June 7, 2019
Mayo Clinic nurse Jeanne Rosendale to retire after 45 years in labor and delivery
By Karl Oestreich 
La Crosse Tribuneby Emily Pyrek On June 3, 1974, Jeanne Rosendale clocked in for her first day as a labor and delivery nurse at Mayo Clinic Health System. On Monday, 45 years to the day, she will complete her final shift. At 67, Rosendale is retiring from the job she has held for more than […]
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Tags: Jeanne Rosendale, La Crosse Tribune, Mayo Clinic Health System, Nursing, nursing careers
May 17, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for May 17, 2019
By Emily Blahnik 
Reuters, Home-based heart rehab may help patients who can’t get to clinics by Lisa Rapaport — “Patients who experience a cardiac event (such as a heart attack or heart surgery), should participate in a cardiac rehabilitation program,” said lead author of the statement Dr. Randal Thomas, medical director of the cardiac rehab program at the […]
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Tags: aging, AI, Alexandria Van Gilder, AliveCor, artificial heart valve, artificial Intelligence, Ashley Zimmerman, brain aneurysm, Brittany Burnham, Camp Wabi, Cancer, canine brucellosis
May 10, 2018
Veteran nurses reflect on their careers
By Karl Oestreich 
KAAL by Dan Conradt “My mother died of cancer when I was young, and that kind of really pushed me into it,” Sandy Johnson said. She and Pat Blake are both on the nursing staff at Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea. “We are here to take care of people in every way that […]
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Tags: KAAL, Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea, Nursing, Pat Blake, Sandy Johnson
April 27, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for April 27, 2018
By Emily Blahnik 
CBS News, East Asian tick species arrives in New Jersey, could carry dangerous virus — It’s the East Asian tick, sometimes called a longhorned or bush tick. Originally found in Asia, thousands of them are now in the Garden State. …That’s a problem, because like the deer ticks that spread Lyme […]
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Tags: Alan Bersten, allergies, alzheimer's disease, anesthesia, Angela L. Murad, antidepressant, Avicii, Barbara Bush, belly fat, Billy Gillispie, breastfeeding, C. Difficile
April 20, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for April 20, 2018
By Emily Blahnik 
TIME, Is Sushi Healthy? Here’s Everything You Need to Know by Sophia Gottfried — Sushi has this halo of being healthy,” says Katherine Zeratsky, a registered dietitian nutritionist and associate professor of nutrition at Mayo Clinic. After all, traditional sushi has all the makings of a health food: it’s stuffed with […]
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Tags: anesthesia, asthma, Barbara Bush, bioethics, Breast Cancer, burnout, caffeine, Cancer, Cathy Dudley, clinical trials, colon cancer, Debbie Koenig
February 17, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for February 17, 2018
By Emily Blahnik 
Vox, How many calories Olympians eat by Julia Belluz — While it may be true that Olympians sometimes cut loose, their diets tend to be remarkably junk food-free — and highly optimized for performance. Athletes are looking for any edge. Increasingly, that means practicing extreme caution about what foods they use as […]
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