April 2, 2015
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor, Carmen Zwicker WCCO Mayo Clinic Alzheimer’s Disease Study Gives Researchers New Hope by Angela Davis It’s a disease with no cure and limited treatment, but this week the Mayo Clinic announced the findings of a major study that is giving Alzheimer’s researchers new hope. The study is published in the […]
Tags: 'Normal' Memory Loss, "Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies", "Mayo Clinic: Going Gluten Free" by Joseph A. Murray, 5 The Fox, 5 WIN (Mich.), 5-2-1-0 For Healthy Kids, ABC 15 Arizona, ABC News, abnormal vaginal bleeding, access to personal medical records, Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), Al Dia Tx
April 23, 2013
‘Amazing journey’ continues – Kristy fights ovarian cancer by living a normal life
Kristy Puetz has survived medical events that could easily sideline most people: ovarian cancer — two recurrences — liver and intestine metastases, bowel obstructions and invasive surgeries…There will be 23,000 new cases of ovarian, primary-peritoneal and fallopian-tube cancers diagnosed this year, says Karin Goodman, a Mayo Clinic ovarian-cancer nurse practitioner. Ovarian cancer will kill 15,000 […]
Tags: Karin Goodman, Kristy Puetz, Ovarian Cancer, Post Bulletin, survival
April 11, 2013
Study finds no fertility drug, ovarian cancer link
Despite lingering concerns that using fertility drugs might raise a woman’s chances for later developing ovarian cancer, new research suggests the drugs don’t contribute any added risk. “One important message is women who need to use fertility drugs to get pregnant should not worry about using these fertility drugs,” said Dr. Albert Asante, lead author […]
Tags: Dr. Albert Asante, fertility drug, no added risk, Ovarian Cancer, Reuters
April 1, 2013
The Ovarian Cancer Protection You May Already Have: Ovarian cancer is notoriously difficult to treat, but Mayo Clinic researchers have found that a widely used diabetes drug may help increase the 5-year survival rate of patients with the disease. In a small study, women with ovarian cancer who took the type 2 diabetes drug metformin […]
Tags: diabetes drug, metformin, Ovarian Cancer, Prevention
March 29, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
March 29, 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 relations […]
Tags: Cancer, Dr. Christopher Moir, Dr. Eric Matteson, Dr. Robert Bazell, Dr. Sandhya Pruthi, genes, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic Children's Center, Minnesota, MPR, NBC, Ovarian Cancer
October 12, 2012
Overcoming Ovarian Cancer, Twice
Ovarian cancer is often called a silent killer because the early symptoms are vague and can be confused for signs of other conditions. Cindy Weiss received the dreaded diagnosis twice. Cindy Weiss of Jacksonville, Fla., was in her thirties when her doctor told her something no woman wants to hear. She was diagnosed with stage […]
Tags: Chemotherapy, Everyday Health, hysterectomy, Ovarian Cancer, radiation