Pioneering therapeutic trials to investigate the effectiveness of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in hard-to-treat depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette’s syndrome are underway at multiple medical centers around the world, according to a review in the June 2009 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
“Deep brain stimulation has long been seen as valuable for controlling movement disorders,” [...]
Celiac disease, an immune system reaction to gluten in the diet, is at least four times as common today as it was 50 years ago, according to findings of a Mayo Clinic study published this month in the journal Gastroenterology.
The study also found that subjects who unknowingly had celiac disease were nearly four times as [...]
Dr. Ron Petersen, Director of the Mayo Clinic’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, and Dr. Claudia Kawas, Neurologist at the University of California, Irvine, recently appeared on Minnesota Public Radio’s Midmorninng program. Here is a link to the program: The 90+ study, Alzheimer’s and aging.
The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation will host Transform, a collaborative symposium on innovations in health care experience and delivery, Sept. 13–15, 2009. It will feature nationally recognized speakers on topics focused on innovation methodology and innovations in health care delivery models, including Web-based tools. The center’s work builds on a century of Mayo Clinic’s [...]
Robert McWilliams, M.D., a Mayo Clinic medical oncologist and Gloria Petersen, PhD, a Mayo Clinic epidemiologist, published an editorial in the June 24 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The editorial commented on a study published in the same issue conducted by Donghui Li, PhD, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer [...]
Australian broadcaster Dr. Norman Swan recently interviewed Mayo researchers Jim Ingle, M.D. and Celine Vachon, Ph.D., about breast cancer. Dr Celine Vachon, who’s a cancer epidemiologist at Mayo Clinic, studied breast density and the risk of getting breast cancer. Dr. Ingle, a medical oncologist at the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center runs the breast cancer program. [...]
Mayo Eugenio Litta Children’s Hospital has again been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as among the nation’s best children’s hospitals, in rankings released today.
Mayo’s pediatric practice was cited for excellence in Neurology & Neurosurgery (ranked 11th), Diabetes & Endocrine Disorders (16), Heart & Heart Surgery (17), Orthopedics (20), Digestive Diseases (23) and Urology [...]
Mayo Clinic announced that it has signed a letter of intent to be part of the Phase II expansion of Mall of America®. Over the next 12 months, Mayo Clinic will define how the new facility will complement Mayo’s existing presence in Minnesota and help bring its expertise to more people long-term.
The Mall of America [...]
Mayo Clinic cardiology researchers have found a peptide that helps preserve and improve kidney function during heart failure, without affecting blood pressure. Earlier variations of this peptide caused blood pressure to drop limiting the potential benefits to the kidneys. The findings appear in the current Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“Heart failure itself and [...]
Treatment options for patients diagnosed with partially blocked carotid arteries but without symptoms such as a mini-stroke, or transient blindness in one eye (amaurosis fugax), should be carefully considered and recommendation made on an individualized basis, according to a review of medical literature published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
The carotid arteries connect the heart and [...]
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