Two Mayo physicians, Veronique L. Roger, M.D., MPH, and Ronald C. Petersen, M.D., Ph.D., recently published editorials in the Journal of American Medicine (JAMA).
Dr. Roger’s editorial, Lifestyle and Cardiovascular Health, discusses that chronic diseases — specifically, cardiovascular diseases — have become the leading cause of death and disability in most countries in the world [...]
Mayo Clinic researchers have found that children exposed to anesthesia during Cesarean delivery are not at any higher risk for later learning disabilities than children not delivered by Cesarean. These findings are recently reported in the journal “Anesthesiology.”
“We found that the incidence of learning disabilities was equal between children who were delivered vaginally and those [...]
Mayo Clinic was honored with a World Technology Network award in the Health & Medicine category on July 16, 2009 in New York City during the World Technology Network Summit and Awards Gala for Mayo’s magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) technology. There were 17 other nominees for the Health & Medicine Award.
Here is a video story [...]
A Mayo Clinic project to eliminate wastes from the traditional system of protocol development has reduced turnaround time for clinical trials by 60 percent, as reported online in the June 29 issue of Journal of Clinical Oncology.
The time needed for protocol development shrank from 25 to 10 weeks for internally authored protocols, and 21 weeks [...]
In a proof-of-concept study, Mayo Clinic investigators have demonstrated that induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells can be used to treat heart disease. iPS cells are stem cells converted from adult cells. In this study, the researchers reprogrammed ordinary fibroblasts, cells that contribute to scars such as those resulting from a heart attack, converting them into [...]
In October, Mayo Clinic is hosting a conference on social media in healthcare, co-sponsored by Ragan Communications, at our Scottsdale, Arizona campus. The event is called Healthcare Public Relations, Marketing & Internal Communications: A Social Media Summit.
The pre-conference workshops will be held October 4, with the conference commencing Monday morning, Oct. 5 and running through the [...]
The incidence of a rare and deadly tumor called primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) is two times higher in black Americans, ages 20 to 49, than in white Americans, according to a Mayo Clinic study published in the June issue of Journal of Neuro-Oncology. In patients older than 49, the results were reversed. White [...]
Dr. Nadia Laack, a Radiation Oncologist, Mayo Clinic-Rochester, was interviewed recently by Australian broadcaster Dr. Norman Swan. The interview, which focused on treating brain tumors, including surgery and radiation therapy, is available here: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2009/2609586.htm.
Diffusion tensor MR imaging (DTI) provides information on the tissue microstructure in the brain. The data generated by this imaging technology may be helpful in differentiating between various forms of dementias and cognitive impairment in the future.
One study looked at the DTI characteristics of patients with dementia with Lewy bodies compared to patients with Alzheimer’s [...]
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