Mayo Clinic News

Mayo Team Streamlines Early Stage Protocol Development Process

Karl Oestreich — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:04:44 +0000

A Mayo Clinic project to eliminate wastes from the traditional system of protocol development has reduced turnaround time for clinical trials by 60 percent, as reported online in the June 29 issue of Journal of Clinical Oncology. The time needed for protocol development shrank from 25 to 10 weeks for internally authored protocols, and 21 weeks [...]

Mayo Clinic Marks Two Decades on “Best Hospitals” Honor Roll

Lee Aase — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:01:35 +0000

Mayo Clinic has again been named to the U.S. News &World Report Honor Roll as part of the magazine’s annual “Best Hospitals” issue. It’s the 20th straight year that Mayo has been honored in this way. Glenn Forbes, M.D., CEO for Mayo Clinic Rochester, puts the rankings in perspective, particularly as they come on the [...]

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Repair Heart, Mayo Clinic Study Shows

Bob Nellis — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:10:39 +0000

Journalists: For links to web-video and audio files, see the bottom of this post. In a proof-of-concept study, Mayo Clinic investigators have demonstrated that induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells can be used to treat heart disease. iPS cells are stem cells converted from adult cells. In this study, the researchers reprogrammed ordinary fibroblasts, cells that contribute [...]

Mayo Clinic Hosting Social Media Summit with Ragan Communications

Lee Aase — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:47:38 +0000

In October, Mayo Clinic is hosting a conference on social media in healthcare, co-sponsored by Ragan Communications, at our Scottsdale, Arizona campus. The event is called Healthcare Public Relations, Marketing & Internal Communications: A Social Media Summit. The pre-conference workshops will be held October 4, with the conference commencing Monday morning, Oct. 5 and running through the [...]

Protected: Mayo Researchers Find Race Has Role in Incidence, Survival of Rare Brain Tumor

Karl Oestreich — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:46:56 +0000

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Mayo Clinic Imaging Studies Look at Tools Which Could Accurately Diagnose Cognitive Impairment and Dementias and Predict Future Outcomes

Karl Oestreich — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:58:29 +0000

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 [...]

Mayo Clinic Study Using Structural MRI May Help Accurately Diagnose Dementia Patients

Karl Oestreich — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:56:28 +0000

Journalists: For links to web-video and audio files, see the bottom of this post. A new Mayo Clinic study may help physicians differentially diagnose three common neurodegenerative disorders in the future. This study will be presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease on July 11 in Vienna. In this study, Mayo Clinic researchers developed [...]

Mayo Clinic Study Continues to Refine Most Effective Methods to Predict Alzheimer’s Disease

Karl Oestreich — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:53:29 +0000

Journalists: For links to web-video and audio files, see the bottom of this post. A new Mayo Clinic study found that the clinical criteria for mild cognitive impairment is better at predicting who will develop Alzheimer’s disease than a single memory test. This is one more piece of information to aid in the identification and early [...]

Mayo Clinic Proceedings Reviews Deep Brain Stimulation to Treat Psychiatric Diseases

johnjmurphy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:55:06 +0000

Journalists: For links to web-video and audio files, see the bottom of this post. 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 [...]

Celiac Disease Prevalence and Mortality

Lee Aase — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:15:36 +0000

Celiac disease, an immune system reaction to gluten in the diet, is at least four times as common today as it was 50 years ago, according to findings of a Mayo Clinic study published this month in the journal Gastroenterology. The study also found that subjects who unknowingly had celiac disease were nearly four times as [...]