January 24, 2020
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for January 24, 2020
USA Today, US service members injured in Iraq: How soon do concussion symptoms appear? by Grace Hauck — Concussions are mild forms of traumatic brain injuries. Common symptoms of concussions – headache, memory loss and confusion – may not show up immediately, according to the Mayo Clinic. The symptoms can last for days, weeks or […]
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December 6, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for December 6, 2019
NBC News, Toxic metal, leached from e-cigarette coil, permanently scars woman’s lung by Erika Edwards — Doctors have discovered yet another way that vaping — and vaping THC, in particular — can damage the lungs: when the metal coils of electronic cigarettes heat up to turn e-liquids into aerosols, toxic metals can leach into the […]
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November 27, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for November 27, 2019
New York Times, Fitting in Family Fitness at the Holidays by Gretchen Reynolds — Jump Around: Consider also supplying the household with jump ropes, said Dr. Michael Joyner, an anesthesiologist and exercise physiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and a committed athlete. Jump ropes, by themselves, provide all the equipment needed for a […]
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October 3, 2019
Minnesota builds expertise in coaxing the body to heal itself
Star Tribuneby Jeremy Olson An obsolete surgical balloon might not sound like a tool of cutting-edge health care, but doctors at Mayo Clinic are repurposing it as they expand the field of regenerative medicine beyond organ transplants and stem cells to new therapies that can coax the body to repair itself. Mayo physicians are testing […]
Tags: Dr. Andre Terzic, Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine, regenerative medicine, Regenerative Medicine Minnesota program, Star Tribune
February 21, 2019
Mayo Clinic finds better way to reprogram stem cells
Post-Bulletin by Anne Halliwell “If we’re going to successfully use reprogrammed stem cells to treat patients in the clinic, we need to ensure that they are safe and effective, that is, not prone to the risk of mutation and potential tumors,” Dr. Patricia Devaux, a Mayo Clinic molecular scientist and senior author of the article, […]
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January 19, 2018
FDA OKs Mayo Clinic’s use of bioreactor-based stem cell production platform
Florida Times-Union by Charlie Patton At the the Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine in Jacksonville, there is a belief that using stem cells to help people’s bodies repair themselves will be the future of medicine. Which is why a recent decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is “a huge deal,” said Guojun […]
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June 30, 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 NBC News What Can Prevent Alzheimer’s? Here’s What the Evidence Shows by […]
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