Items Tagged ‘ultrasound’
May 8, 2014
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. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations Prevention The Hidden Type of Alzheimer’s Doctors […]
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August 29, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
August 30, 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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April 16, 2013
Ultrasound screening test from Mayo Clinic for heart health
The Mayo Clinic offers treatment options for aortic valve disease. Mayo Clinic cardiologist Todd Hurst, M.D. joined the cast of Sonoran Living Live for a discussion about the Mayo Clinic Heart Health and Performance Program…Dr. Hurst discusses the innovative ultrasound screening test of the arteries used to determine a patient’s vascular age and individualized plans that […]
Tags: ABC-15, aortic valve disease, Dr. Todd Hurst, heart health, Heart Health and Performance Program, screening test, Sonoran Living Live, ultrasound, vascular age
June 7, 2012
Ultrasound May Detect Heart Disease Earlier in Arthritis Patients
A special type of ultrasound can detect heart disease early in people with rheumatoid arthritis, according to a new study. “The challenge we’ve had in our studies — and other people have had as well — is identifying patients with rheumatoid arthritis early enough so we can intervene, before the symptoms become clinically apparent,” senior […]
Tags: Dr. Sherine Gabriel, rheumatoid arthritis, ultrasound, Yahoo Health
May 29, 2012
Eden Prairie Firm Wins Approval to Sell Prostate Imaging Technology
ProUroCare says its device can help doctors detect possible prostate problems and map changes to the prostate over time… Dr. Matthew Toffefson, a Mayo Clinic urologist who said he is not familiar with the ProUroScan, nonetheless agreed with Weiss that there is a “definite” need for better diagnostic technology. “Really, right now, we don’t have […]
Tags: Dr. Matthew Toffefson, MRI, prostate, ProUroCare, Star Tribune, ultrasound
October 21, 2009
GE Plans to Sell Phone-Size Ultrasound Device in 2010
General Electric Co., the world’s biggest maker of medical imaging equipment, plans to sell an ultrasound device early next year that’s about the size of a mobile phone. “This could be the stethoscope of the 21st century,” Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt told an audience while demonstrating the device today at the Web 2.0 […]
Tags: GE, ultrasound