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May 9th, 2013 - 6:10 am

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CNET, Mayo to host Twitter chat on health apps

May 7th, 2013 - 1:18 pm

  Mayo Clinic and Scott Stein from CNET will be teaming up for a Twitter chat Wednesday, May 8 from 1-2 p.m. ET. to talk about health apps. Hashtag to follow: #healthapps Mobile software (apps) is designed to run on handheld computers, personal … Continue reading →

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WSJ, Mayo, others partnering for Twitter chat on autism

May 1st, 2013 - 3:39 pm

The Wall Street Journal’s Shirley Wang and experts from Mayo Clinic, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Yale and other institutions are teaming up for a Twitter chat on autism at 12 ET on Friday, May 3. Hashtag: #autismchat. The chat will focus … Continue reading →

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US News, Mayo Clinic, ADA partnering for Twitter chat on childhood diabetes

April 24th, 2013 - 12:09 pm

US News & World Report, Mayo Clinic and the American Diabetes Association are partnering for a Twitter chat on childhood diabetes at 2 p.m. ET Thursday, April 25. Follow the chat using the hashtag: #KidsDiabetes. The American Diabetes Association estimates … Continue reading →

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April 15th, 2013 - 11:16 am

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Time, Mayo teaming up for Parkinson’s Twitter chat

April 15th, 2013 - 9:39 am

Tuesday April 16, Mayo Clinic is teaming up with Alice Park from Time for a Twitter chat on Parkinson’s disease. April is Parkinson’s disease awareness month. The movement disorder, which usually strikes between the ages of 50 and 65, is … Continue reading →

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Mayo Clinic Researcher Appointed to Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Population Health Improvement

April 8th, 2013 - 1:18 pm

Lila Rutten, Ph.D., Associate Scientific Director of Population Health Science within Mayo Clinic’s Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, has been appointed to a new Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Population Health Improvement. The first meeting will be held tomorrow … Continue reading →

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Mayo hospitals among safest, according to Consumer Reports

April 2nd, 2013 - 7:43 pm

Teams across Mayo are embedding safe behaviors, participating in ongoing quality projects, improving system efficiency, standardizing best health care best practices and collaborating across disciplines to strengthen their safety cultures. And it’s working, according to a new report from Consumer … Continue reading →

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Cognitively normal people with high amyloid levels likelier to have damaged hippocampus

March 20th, 2013 - 2:32 pm

People who aren’t showing signs of cognitive decline but have evidence of amyloid in their brains, showed a greater rate of shrinkage of their hippocampus — the part of the brain involved with memory function — later on than cognitively … Continue reading →

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Research Shows Genetic Evidence that New Therapies Targeting Parkinson’s Disease may Cause Harm

March 20th, 2013 - 12:39 pm

  NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore) and Mayo Clinic researchers have partnered on a study that shows genetic and clinical evidence that therapies targeting the expression of alpha-synuclein — a gene whose function is involved in the development and progression of … Continue reading →

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