ROCHESTER, Minn. — The world record pace for the marathon continues to improve for both men and women. For men, the record pace for the marathon is now about as fast as the record pace for the 10,000-meter just after WWII. Today, champion athletes are running more than four times farther at speeds of well [...]
Mayo Clinic’s Division of Cardiovascular Diseases has twice sponsored a program called “Stories of the Heart: Through the Eyes of Our Patients.” Patients who had received heart care from Mayo came back to tell their stories about how their lives had been changed. Here’s a sample of one of their recent stories:
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Virend Somers, M.D., Ph.D., a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic, is the chair of the joint statement writing committee for a joint statement from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology saying that medical researchers need to undertake large-scale studies to determine the exact relationship between heart disease and the different forms of [...]
Lewis Roberts, M.B., Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist, is the author of an editorial in the July 24, 2008 issue of New England Journal of Medicine, commenting on research results published in the same issue involving the use of the drug sorafenib for treating advanced liver cancer.
Dr. Roberts describes the significance of the study findings, [...]
On Saturday, July 19 a motorcycle group from Glencoe, Minn., presented a donation to Mayo Eugenio Litta Children’s Hospital. Matt and Scott Conklin of Glencoe first organized this fund-raising bike rally last year.
Funds were raised through a silent auction in Glencoe, as well as donations from local businesses and riders’ donations.
Philip Fischer, M.D., medical director [...]
Researchers at Mayo Clinic have discovered that patients with obstructive sleep apnea have an increased risk of having a heart attack between typical sleeping hours — 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. The results of the novel research will be published in the July 29 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
The findings [...]
A new Mayo Clinic study has found that the number of new cases of mild cognitive impairment is approximately 5 percent per year. This is higher than the anticipated 1 or 2 percent incidence rate and highlights the urgency for developing new and better therapies for Alzheimer’s disease
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a transitional state [...]
Mayo Clinic researchers have developed an algorithm that extracts information on brain deterioration from three-dimensional MRI scans and assigns a severity score by comparing the scan to a large library of scans from patients with Alzheimer’s disease and patients who are cognitively normal.
The score – known as the Structural Abnormality iNDex or STAND score – [...]
Researchers at Mayo Clinic have found that genetic variations could explain why some people with depression respond better to a certain treatment. David Mrazek, M.D., chair of the Mayo Clinic Department of Psychiatry and Psychology and senior author of this new study, comments why the findings are important for patients.
Dr. Mrazek discusses [...]
Diane Dahm, M.D., a Mayo Clinic orthopedic surgeon, today commented on a number of fitness-related topics, including choosing the right exercises, injury prevention, exercising with arthritis, keeping children active, and children’s injuries.
The clip below features Dr. Dahm’s comments.
During the tour stop in Dallas, Mayo Clinic has provided fitness consultation to event [...]
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