March 8, 2019
Daylight saving time starts this weekend: Who observes it, will it affect health?
USA Today By Scott Craven, Ashley May, and Doyle Rice On Sunday, the vast majority of Americans will lose an hour of sleep as clocks are set ahead for daylight saving time… Gaining or losing an hour probably will affect sleep patterns, often for about five to seven days, said Timothy Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic’s co-director […]
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January 11, 2019
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for January 11, 2019
USA Today, A medical rarity: Two patients get back-to-back, triple-organ transplants by Ken Altucker — …Mayo Clinic Rochester has completed 100 multi-organ transplants, including four heart-liver-kidney transplants, said Alfredo Clavell, Mayo Rochester’s medical director of the heart transplant program. Clavell agreed that a new liver often allows patients to take lower levels of anti-rejection drugs […]
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March 16, 2018
Out of the doghouse, into the bed
New York Times by Jen A. Miller …Is sleeping in the same bed with your dog a good idea? Wouldn’t they be disruptive to our sleep? According to a recent study, not really. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix studied 40 dogs (none were puppies) who slept in the bedroom with their owners. The […]
Tags: dogs, Dr. Lois Krahn, New York Times, sleep
February 17, 2018
5 research-backed ways to sleep better
Prevention by Karyn Repinski Let the dogs in: You might have heard that you should keep pets out of the bedroom because they’re disruptive, but recent research says otherwise. Mayo Clinic scientists evaluated the sleep of 40 adults and their dogs via activity trackers for seven nights and found that people with dogs in their […]
Tags: Dr. Lois Krahn, pets, Prevention, sleep, sleep medicine
August 18, 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 BlahnikCNN Calling BS on BMI: How can we tell how fat we are? by […]
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May 27, 2016
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. Thank you. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Emily Blahnik Wall Street Journal Shoulder Surgery Is the New Testing Ground […]
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