Items Tagged ‘pediatric cancer’
September 20, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for September 20, 2019
Wall Street Journal, Israel Prepares to Unleash AI on Health Care by Dov Lieber — Israel is becoming a testing ground for the power of artificial intelligence to improve health care… In May, Israel’s Innovation Authority signed a memorandum with the Mayo Clinic for Israeli health startups to team up with the U.S. institution’s researchers […]
Tags: ADHD, aging, AI, alzheimer's disease, Apple Tree Dental, artificial Intelligence, Ben Crenshaw, BioSig, Blood Donor Program, board of trustees, bone marrow transplant, C. diff
July 27, 2018
Special masks help young cancer patients through treatments
KAAL by Kali Aldrich “My power is to cure animals,” said Lorea Lacaro. This idea was brought about when Mayo Clinic staff saw it on social media. Radiologists in Europe were making treatment masks for their patients. “So it starts off as like a hard piece of plastic, and then we put it in a […]
Tags: Cancer, Jennifer Dewessee, KAAL, Lorea Lacaro, Mayo Clinic Children's Center, pediatric cancer
September 28, 2017
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. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Emily Blahnik Washington Post Letting a dog sleep on your bed does not actually […]
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
June 1, 2012
Fertility On Hold For Child Cancer Patients
For parents of young children diagnosed with cancer, looking ahead can be at once terrifying and consoling. Now, a burgeoning field of research allows those parents to consider their pre-pubescent child’s ability to someday bear children — and to take steps to protect that ability. “Survival rates for pediatric cancers are higher than ever,” says […]
Tags: ChicagoLand TV, Dr. Jani Jensen, fertility preservation program, pediatric cancer