August 28, 2009 – 12:25 pm
Journalists: For links to web-video and audio files, see the bottom of this post.
Investigators at the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center have received a five-year, $11.5 million grant to translate research into treatments for women with ovarian cancer. Every year in the United States, more than 16,000 women die from the disease and another 22,000 are [...]
August 27, 2009 – 2:43 pm
A symptomless blood disorder, monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance, known as MGUS, is not linked to as many serious diseases as previously thought. This finding may save patients from undergoing unnecessary workup and treatment according to a study published in the August 2009 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
MGUS has long been thought to be a [...]
August 12, 2009 – 5:55 pm
Mayo Clinic endocrinologist Victor Montori, M.D., is among three authors of an article published this week in BMJ calling for “minimally disruptive” medicine to help ease the burden of treatment for patients, especially those with multiple chronic conditions.
Dr. Montori explains the rationale for the paper in the video below, describing how many patients can become [...]
By Lee Aase
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Posted in Endocrinology, Innovation, Quality
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Tagged chronic disease, comorbid conditions, comorbidity, Diabetes, endocrincology, heart failure, Mayo Clinic, minimally disruptive, minimally disruptive medicine, Victor Montori
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August 11, 2009 – 3:00 pm
An editorial authored by Mayo Clinic neurologist David Knopman, M.D. was published today in the Journal of American Medicine (JAMA). The editorial, Mediterranean Diet and Late-Life Cognitive Impairment, discusses the results of two new studies on the Mediterranean-type diet and its association with a reduced incidence of Alzheimer’s disease. A Mediterranean-type diet is one high [...]
August 6, 2009 – 11:05 am
A new study led by Mayo Clinic researchers has found that relief of pain from vertebral compression fractures, as well as improvement in pain-related dysfunction, were similar in patients treated with vertebroplasty and those treated with simulated vertebroplasty without cement injections. The article, “A Randomized Controlled Trial of Vertebroplasty for Osteoporotic Spine Fractures,” was released [...]