September 28, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for September 28, 2018
By Emily Blahnik 
Reuters, Antidepressants, psychotherapy may help ease irritable bowel syndrome by Lisa Rapaport — “One component of IBS is increased sensitivity to the functions of the bowels; simply summarized, this means either the nerves taking messages from the bowel to the brain are more sensitive or that the brain is more attentive or reacts in […]
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Tags: alzheimer's disease, Amy Lannen, anxiety, artificial Intelligence, Bill Franke, Brittle Bone Disease, calcium, Carolyn Franke, Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, childhood cancer, Children's Museum, chronic kidney disease
July 10, 2014
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. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations Wall Street Journal Side Effects: Telling the […]
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Tags: A.L.S., ABC News, alzheimer's disease, Arizona Republic, Art and Healing at Mayo Clinic, Bayasaa Bars, Becker’s Hospital Review, behavorial disorder, Best Workplace, Bethel Lutheran Church, Big Blue Dragon Boat Races, Bloomberg
March 14, 2014
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. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations Twin Cities Business Mayo’s Operating Profits Climb […]
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Tags: 000 steps, 10, 2013 Mayo Clinic Performance Report, ABC News, Abilene, Adirondack Enterprise NY, Advertiser-Tribune, airborne fungus, Albert Lea Tribune, alzheimer's disease, antibacterial soap, antibiotics and weight gain
December 6, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
By Karl Oestreich 
December 6, 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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Tags: #GlutenChat, 10 News, ABA, ABC News, Affordable care act, AIDS, Al Jazeera America, Al Jazeera magazine, alcohol, American Board of Anesthesiology, Andy Thieman, anesthesiology residents
March 18, 2013
Week in Words: Erin McKean
By Logan Lafferty 
Moving Expenditures: NEAT, All the movements a person does during the day – from getting up to close the garage to rocking in a chair – are nonscheduled physical activities that can make a big difference in terms of daily calorie expenditure by causing a person’s metabolism to increase, says Gabriel Koepp, a program manager […]
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Tags: calorie, Gabriel Koepp, metabolism, NEAT, Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis, physical activity, Wall Street Journal
July 19, 2012
Inactivity Tied to 5.3 Million Deaths Worldwide, Similar to Smoking
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Sitting around may be as deadly as smoking, a new study suggests. New research in The Lancet finds about one in 10 deaths worldwide are caused by people not getting up and engaging in physical activity such as walking 30 minutes a day for five days a week…This is a super, super analysis,” Dr. James […]
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Tags: CBS News, Dr. James Levine, inactivity, physical activity, WebMD
January 13, 2010
Watching TV shortens life span, study finds
By Kelley Luckstein 
Watching television for hour upon hour obviously isn’t the best way to spend leisure time — inactivity has been linked to obesity and heart disease. But a new study quantifies TV viewing’s effect on risk of death. Researchers found that each hour a day spent watching TV was linked with an 18% greater risk […]
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Tags: physical activity, TV shortens life