November 30, 2009 – 9:22 am
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The first complete report of Mayo Clinic physicians’ initial assessment of pork processing plant workers with a unique neurological disorder has been published online in Lancet Neurology. It includes the detailed results of the diagnostic assessment and clinical care of these patients, [...]
November 24, 2009 – 8:01 am
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), anxiety and phobias will be the topic of the Mayo Clinic/USA TODAY chat on Twitter this afternoon, Tuesday, Nov. 24, from 3-4 p.m. EST. Include #MayoUSAToday in your “tweets” to join the conversation.
Stephen Whiteside, Ph.D., (@DrWhiteside) a Mayo Clinic psychologist, will join Mary Brophy Marcus (@BrophyMarcUSAT) to discuss topics related to her [...]
November 23, 2009 – 11:06 am
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Major medical errors self-reported by American surgeons are strongly related to both burnout and depression. Those findings appear today in the online edition of Annals of Surgery. The Mayo Clinic-led study included collaborators from Johns Hopkins and the American College of Surgeons.
In [...]
November 18, 2009 – 8:51 pm
Multiple crews responded to a tour bus accident on Interstate 90 between Austin and Albert Lea, Minn., on Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 18. These crews included ground ambulance from Albert Lea Medical Center, Gold Cross ambulance from Austin, and Adams Area Ambulance Service as well as air ambulances including Mayo One helicopters from Rochester and Mankato. [...]
November 17, 2009 – 8:08 am
Robert Jacobson, M.D., chair of Mayo Clinic’s pediatric and adolescent medicine departments, will participate in a Mayo Clinic/USA Today Twitter chat about H1N1 flu in children with asthma on Wednesday, November 18 from 8-9 p.m. EST.
The chat, which will be led by Mary Brophy Marcus (@BrophyMarcUSAT) of USA Today and Dr. Jacobson (@RobertJMD), will enable parents [...]
November 16, 2009 – 5:20 pm
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently revised its screening recommendations for breast cancer based upon an analysis of various mammography screening schedules. Experts suggest screening every two years for average risk women ages 50 to 74 achieves most of the benefits of annual screening, but with less harm. Furthermore, although there was a [...]
November 16, 2009 – 9:46 am
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Results of a Mayo Clinic study show the incidence of stroke or mini-stroke related to a coronary angioplasty remained steady over a 15-year period. Researchers say this is good news because physicians now are performing the artery-opening procedure on [...]
November 15, 2009 – 11:00 am
Mayo Clinic scientists will present research at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2009 in Orlando on Sunday, Nov. 15, showing that postmortem testing to identify genetic mutations for sudden unexplained death could be a less expensive manner to determine first-degree relatives’ risk.
“What we wanted to explore in this study is: Might it make more [...]
November 10, 2009 – 1:11 pm
Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO), also known as Devic’s Disease, is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system in which there are episodes of inflammation and damage to the myelin (fatty, protective covering of nerves) that almost exclusively affect the optic (eye) nerves and spinal cord. It can cause blindness and lead to varying degrees of [...]
November 9, 2009 – 2:31 pm
New Mayo Clinic research studied the association between prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels and prostate size and found that routine annual evaluation of prostate growth is not necessarily a predictor for the development of prostate cancer. But the study suggests that if a man’s PSA level is rising quickly, a prostate biopsy is reasonable to determine [...]
