September 23, 2009 – 2:13 pm
The Mayo Clinic Conference on Quality, Safety, and Service will provide an excellent opportunity to discover the latest information related to quality, safety, and service in healthcare, both at Mayo Clinic, and around the country on Sept. 29-30.
John Nance, noted aviation analyst and healthcare consultant will be presenting the keynote address on September 29.
Nance brings [...]
Diffusion tensor MR imaging (DTI) provides information on the tissue microstructure in the brain. The data generated by this imaging technology may be helpful in differentiating between various forms of dementias and cognitive impairment in the future.
One study looked at the DTI characteristics of patients with dementia with Lewy bodies compared to patients with Alzheimer’s [...]
Pioneering therapeutic trials to investigate the effectiveness of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in hard-to-treat depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette’s syndrome are underway at multiple medical centers around the world, according to a review in the June 2009 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
“Deep brain stimulation has long been seen as valuable for controlling movement disorders,” [...]
Mayo Clinic announced that it has signed a letter of intent to be part of the Phase II expansion of Mall of America®. Over the next 12 months, Mayo Clinic will define how the new facility will complement Mayo’s existing presence in Minnesota and help bring its expertise to more people long-term.
The Mall of America [...]
One in five Americans experiences heartburn at least once a week, and many dismiss the malady as a mere annoyance, choosing to swallow antacids and get on with their lives.
But what they don’t know can hurt them. Left untreated, the condition can lead to Barrett’s esophagus, which in turn can put patients at risk for [...]
A new Mayo Clinic study found that surgical treatment of spinal arteriovenous fistulas is safe and effective. Newer techniques like endovascular embolization have not yet been demonstrated to be as effective, and therefore must be studied further in order to be recommended over traditional surgery. This study was presented at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons [...]
Mayo Clinic and IBM have launched a web site for the newly founded Open Health Natural Language Processing (NLP) Consortium. The consortium is establishing the open-source space to promote continued development of bioinformatics tools to search the electronic medical record.
As part of the launch, Mayo Clinic and IBM released their clinical NLP technologies into the [...]
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Traumatic brain injury is usually the result of a sudden, violent blow to the head — which causes the brain to collide with the inside of the skull. This collision can bruise the brain, tear nerve fibers and cause bleeding. The severity of traumatic brain injury can vary greatly. A mild traumatic brain injury may [...]
A new Mayo Clinic study found that the use of transoral robotic surgery for the treatment of tonsil and base of tongue cancers is safe, effective and enables faster recovery times.
“The results of this research were even more positive than we expected. We found great advantages to using transoral robotic surgery for tonsil and base [...]
