Author Archives: Matt Sluzinski

Difficult Business Decisions on Medicare, Medicaid at Mayo

October 13, 2009 – 4:24 pm

At Mayo Clinic, we take pride in delivering efficient, high quality care to each individual patient.  As an organization that has focused on the patient’s needs for over 100 years, the decisions that Mayo made last week to op-out of Medicare participation in a small Arizona family practice clinic and to discontinue Medicaid participation in [...]

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Mayo Clinic Research on Link Between Leptin and Cardiovascular Disease

June 9, 2008 – 5:34 pm

Leptin, a hormone that regulates appetite, appears to be associated with cardiovascular disease, say researchers at Mayo Clinic. According to findings published in Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine, adults with high levels of leptin in their blood appear to have a higher risk for developing cardiovascular disease than do those with lower leptin levels.
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