November 1, 2018
Mayo researchers working on vaccines to treat – possibly prevent – breast cancer
By Karl Oestreich 
Florida Times-Union by Matt Soergel A Mayo Clinic immunologist in Jacksonville envisions a not-so distant future where vaccines could help stop the relapse of cancer in patients who have already been successfully treated for breast cancer. Keith Knutson’s team of researchers is also trying to develop a preventative vaccine that would be given to healthy […]
View full entry
Tags: Breast Cancer, cancer vaccines, Dr. Keith Knutson, Ovarian Cancer
October 26, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for October 26, 2018
By Emily Blahnik 
Harvard Business Review, Lessons from Mayo Clinic’s Redesign of Stroke Care by W. David Freeman — Facing escalating costs of medications and technology, health care patients and providers in the United States continue to search for opportunities to reduce overall costs while maintaining and improving health care outcomes. At the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Stroke Center […]
View full entry
Tags: 3D mammography, Acute Flaccid Myelitis, asthma, bariatric surgery, Chip Duncan, Christine Feller, contact lenses, COPD, dementia, destination medical center, diet, DMC
September 28, 2018
Ovarian cancer awareness with the Mayo Clinic
By Karl Oestreich 
News4Jax Ovarian cancer awareness with Dr. Tri Dinh and Cindy Weiss is discussed. Reach: WAWS-TV/30 is the Fox affiliate. WTEV-TV/47 is the CBS affiliate in Jacksonville, Florida. Context: Ovarian cancer is a type of cancer that begins in the ovaries. The female reproductive system contains two ovaries, one on each side of the uterus. The ovaries — each about the […]
View full entry
Tags: Cindy Weiss, Dr. Tri Dinh, NewsJax4, Ovarian Cancer
May 25, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for May 25, 2018
By Emily Blahnik 
New York Times, Me and My Numb Thumb: A Tale of Tech, Texts and Tendons by Nellie Bowles — …My doctor, who had me make a painful fist, said that I might have something called De Quervain’s Tendinosis, which affects tendons on the thumb side of the wrist and is caused […]
View full entry
Tags: ADHD, AI, Aimovig, AliveCor, artificial Intelligence, belly fat, biobank, biotin, brain cancer, buprenorphine, celiac disease, cognition
May 18, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for May 18, 2018
By Emily Blahnik 
Reuters, Doctors don’t always explain sexual side effects of prostate treatments — “Patients didn’t previously have choices about their treatments and accepted the side effects,” said Dr. Tobias Kohler of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who wasn’t involved in the study. “But now, we’re seeing minimally invasive treatments that offer excellent […]
View full entry
Tags: AliveCor, allergies, Allie Wergin, Alyssa Duane, alzheimer's disease, Amazon Alexa, Amy Lannen, angiography, artificial Intelligence, atrial fibrillation, biotetch, Breast Cancer
December 8, 2017
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for December 8, 2017
By Karl Oestreich 
NBC News, Is this the shoe that will help rewrite marathon history? by David Cox — Dr. Michael Joyner, a Mayo Clinic researcher who predicted that a sub-two hour marathon might be physiologically possible back in 1991, notes that Kipchoge had help from a team of 30 pacemakers, who helped break the […]
View full entry
Tags: AIDS, alcohol, alzheimer's disease, antibiotics, Apple Watch, Aromatherapy, ASU, blood pressure, Cancer, carotid stenting, CPR, dementia
September 28, 2017
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
By Emily Blahnik 
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. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Emily Blahnik Washington Post Letting a dog sleep on your bed does not actually […]
View full entry
Tags: Acorda Therapeutics, Addiction Now, Alzforum, alzheimer's disease, Amazon Alexa, Arizona Daily Sun, artificial Intelligence, Barron News-Shield, Becker’s Hospital Review, birth defects, Bloomington Pantagraph, brain cancer
September 8, 2017
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. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Emily Blahnik CNN New class of drugs targets aging to help keep you healthy […]
View full entry
Tags: aging, Albert Lea Tribune, alcoholism, altitude sickness, Alzforum, alzheimer's disease, anxiety, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, blood test, Cancer, Center on Aging, City Center Dispatch
June 9, 2017
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. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Emily Blahnik Wall Street Journal Mayo Clinic’s Unusual Challenge: Overhaul a Business That’s […]
View full entry
Tags: "un-Minnesotan.", 13 WMAZ, 9 News Colorado, a-fib, ActionNewsJax, advisory board, allergies, atrial fibrillation, Becker’s Hospital Review, BioWorld, blood thinners, BMI
May 5, 2017
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. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Emily Blahnik Reuters Rethink emphasis on lowering saturated fat to save hearts: docs […]
View full entry
Tags: ABC News, Albert Lea Tribune, alcohol, Ambient Clinical Analytics, amenorrhea, American College of Surgeons Surgery News, american heart association, American Nursing Informatics Association, Austin Herald, Barron News-Shield, Becker’s Hospital Review, bioengineer