October 26, 2018
What does your gut say? How ‘the bugs inside us’ affect overall health
Star Tribune by Connie Nelson Dr. Joseph Murray takes the adage “You are what you to eat” to a whole new level — a lower level. As a gastroenterologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Murray studies “anything that ails you from your mouth to the other end.” In addition to being an expert in Celiac […]
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October 12, 2018
Aging yet active, baby boomers test the limits of artificial joints
Star Tribune by Mary Lynn Smith “Baby boomers and people who’ve grown up in the era of joint replacement are less willing to put up with a level of disability that might have been an expectation two generations ago,” said Dr. Daniel Berry, orthopedic surgeon at Mayo Clinic. Over the past decade, the materials used […]
Tags: Dr. Daniel Berry, Dr. Mark Pagnano, hip replacement, joint replacement, knee replacement, Star Tribune
October 5, 2018
The sisters are given their due in two-part Mayo Clinic creation story
Star Tribune by Matt McKinney The story of how Minnesota’s most famous hospital came to be was told in a two-part Ken Burns documentary last week, so a lot of people now know about the sisters. The lesser known partners in a vital partnership early in Mayo Clinic history, the Sisters of Saint Francis in […]
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October 5, 2018
Mayo Clinic expert on caring for elderly: ‘We’re going to face a huge crisis’
Star Tribune by Connie Nelson Joan Griffin has a warning for us: It’s coming. Griffin, an associate professor of health services research at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, said the silver tsunami heading our way will bring with it a caregiving crisis. As our population ages, families will be challenged to take responsibility for care […]
Tags: aging population, caregiving, Dr. Joan Griffin, Star Tribune
October 5, 2018
Mayo Clinic expert on world-record athletes says a sub-2-hour marathon is possible
Star Tribune by Richard Chin Thousands of runners will hit the roads of Minneapolis and St. Paul in the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon on Oct. 7, an ordeal that takes the vast majority of citizen athletes three, four or five hours to complete. Until recently, the idea that a human could run 26.2 miles in […]
Tags: athletic performance, distance running, Dr. Michael Joyner, marathons, Star Tribune
September 7, 2018
Mayo Clinic will spend about $800 million to expand in Arizona and Florida
Star Tribune by Dee DePass Mayo Clinic will expand its Florida campus with two building projects worth $144 million in an effort to increase its patient surgery, treatment and parking accommodations, officials said Wednesday. Once completed, Mayo’s Jacksonville campus will have a new parking garage and a new five-story, 120,000-square-foot medical building that will connect […]
Tags: capital projects, Dr. Gianrico Farrugia, Dr. Wyatt Decker, Star Tribune
August 23, 2018
Big marketing deal for Mayo Clinic-designed test
Star Tribune by Christopher Snowbeck Shares of Wisconsin-based Exact Sciences jumped by about 25 percent in trading Wednesday morning after the company announced a marketing deal with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer that’s expected to boost sales for a cancer screening test first developed by the Mayo Clinic. Pfizer says it will match Exact Sciences’ shared marketing […]
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August 10, 2018
Mayo Clinic names its next CEO
Star Tribune by Christopher Snowbeck Dr. Gianrico Farrugia has been selected as the next chief executive at Mayo Clinic, the Rochester-based health system that’s Minnesota’s largest private employer and an enduring draw for patients from around the world. Farrugia has worked at Mayo for 30 years including his most recent job as chief executive for […]
Tags: CEO succession, Dr. Gianrico Farrugia, Dr. John Noseworthy, Star Tribune
June 15, 2018
Mayo Clinic patient treated by massive measles dose still cancer-free 5 years later
Star Tribune by Dan Browning It’s been five years since Stacy Erholtz underwent an experimental treatment for blood cancer that used enough measles vaccine to inoculate 10 million people, and she’s still celebrating her life, moment by moment. “I’m not the kind of person who waits for the other shoe to drop,” said Erholtz, 54, […]
Tags: blood cancer, Dr. Stephen Russell, multiple myeloma, Stacy Erholtz, Star Tribune, virotherapy
May 31, 2018
Ken Burns checks in at Mayo Clinic to give a sneak preview of his upcoming documentary
Star Tribune Ken Burns has checked into one of Minnesota’s most famous institutions plenty of times as a patient, but Wednesday he was strictly in the delivery business, offering a sneak preview of his upcoming documentary, “The Mayo Clinic: Faith, Hope, Science.” The two-hour film won’t debut on PBS until Sept. 25, but roughly 500 […]
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