Author Archives: Traci Klein

Stem cell study helps clarify the best time for therapy to aid heart attack survivors

November 14th, 2011 - 9:08 am

Journalists:  For links to web-video and audio files, see the bottom of this post. ORLANDO, Fla.  — A research network led by a Mayo Clinic physician found that stem cells obtained from bone marrow delivered two to three weeks after … Continue reading →

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Know Your Numbers

October 17th, 2011 - 3:39 pm

Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of men and women in the United States. Prevention is one of the ways people can lower their risk of heart disease. Today, Mayo Clinic is launching a heart health awareness campaign with … Continue reading →

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Getting stronger, year by year: Empowering women with heart disease

October 12th, 2011 - 3:00 pm

What happens when you bring together women who have heart disease and arm them with information and skills to talk to others about their disease? And wait, how about if you add time for them to talk with physicians one-on-one … Continue reading →

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Mayo Clinic Announces Global Smoke-free Worksite Challenge at Clinton Global Initiative

September 21st, 2011 - 10:02 am

Journalists:  For links to video and audio files, see the bottom of this post. Mayo Clinic today announced a partnership with other organizations to develop a Global Smoke-free Worksite Challenge. The partners are committed to making their worksites 100 percent … Continue reading →

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Heart Disease Survivor Prompts SCAD Research With Social Media

August 29th, 2011 - 2:31 pm

Conversation Between Cardiologist And Heart Disease Survivor Leads To Study In October 2009, Dr. Sharonne Hayes, a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic who focuses on treating women with heart disease, was approached by a woman who’d experienced a rare cardiac condition. This … Continue reading →

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Mayo Makes Recommendations to Patients Taking Simvastatin Therapy

June 16th, 2011 - 9:19 am

The Food and Drug Administration last week released a warning last week about using a high dose of the cholesterol-lowering medication simvastatin (Zocor), as a result of concerns about muscle damage. Mayo Clinic’s recommendations to patients are the same as … Continue reading →

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Mayo Clinic Makes Recommendations to Patients Taking Niacin

June 16th, 2011 - 8:16 am

In late May, the National Institutes of Health announced it was stopping early the AIM-HIGH study, a study looking at the potential added benefit of niacin therapy for patients with known heart disease who also had a low HDL or … Continue reading →

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Gene Screening May Refine Prediction of Heart Attack Risk, Mayo Clinic Researchers say

November 16th, 2010 - 4:15 pm

Testing for 11 specific genetic variations in hundreds of people with no history of heart disease provided information that led to revision of their estimated heart attack risk, say Mayo Clinic researchers. In a study presented today at the American … Continue reading →

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Symptoms of Obese Heart Failure Patients Improved After Bariatric Surgery

November 14th, 2010 - 3:00 pm

A small Mayo Clinic study has found that morbidly obese heart failure patients who undergo bariatric surgery gain long-lasting and meaningful improvements in disease symptoms and quality of life. The results were presented today at the American Heart Association’s Scientific … Continue reading →

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Radiation and Angioplasty Study

March 12th, 2010 - 12:51 pm

Body size, gender and the complexity of heart disease significantly influence how much cumulative radiation skin dose that patients receive during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) therapy, also known as angioplasty, according to a new Mayo Clinic study. The study was … Continue reading →

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