Health & Wellness - August 2013 Archives

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona - 22 de agosto de 2013.   La terapia con luz pulsada intensa (IPL, por sus siglas en inglés) se utiliza en Mayo ...

Mouth sores are an unfortunate, but common ailment with radiation therapy. In this Mayo Clinic Radio Health Minute, Dr. Robert Miller tells us about a ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mK_ygqrIY0 Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida have discovered that a drug used to treat blood cancers may also stop the spread of invasive breast cancer. Their study, published ...

The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation is holding Transform 2013 in Rochester, Minn. Sept. 8–10.  It's the sixth multidisciplinary symposium focused on transforming the way health care is experienced and delivered, with a dynamic audience of innovators, leaders, designers, entrepreneurs, policymakers and business thinkers. Topics include new models of care delivery, the uncertainty of change in the health care landscape, the intersection of business and health care innovation, and how to scale programs to large populations. Journalist and commentator John Hockenberry, who is returning to Transform to moderate the symposium discussions, says, “There is a real hunger to talk about changing health care, and it is our responsibility to make sure we are on the cutting edge of doing things right.”  See all 2013 speakers Click here for news release Journalists: Sound bites with John Hockenberry and Nicholas LaRusso, M.D., Director of Transform 2013, are available in the downloads  Journalists can request media passes and access to a live webcast by contacting Duska Anastasijevic at 507-284-5005 or newsbureau@mayo.edu. The public can follow symposium news at the Center for Innovation Blog and on Twitter #TXFM.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N-4JnfNmLg The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports up to 170,000 young athletes go to the emergency department every year for possible traumatic ...

http://youtu.be/8SFaErUrk60 The standard treatment for chronic dry eye includes medications, daily eye drops and ointments to nourish the surface of the eye. In some cases, ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says 300,000 cases of Lyme disease are diagnosed in the United States each year. That's roughly 10 times more cases than are generally reported to the CDC through routine surveillance. It also makes Lyme disease the most common tick-borne illness in the U.S. The CDC says this new estimate confirms that Lyme disease is a tremendous public health problem in the United States and clearly highlights an urgent need for prevention. Mayo Clinic infectious disease expert Abinash Virk, M.D., says a few basic precautions will reduce the chances of contracting not just Lyme, but all tick-borne diseases. Dr. Virk's top tick-bite prevention tips are:  Use a suitable insect repellent. Check yourself, children and pets after being outdoors. To reduce your risk on hikes, stay on trails. If you leave the path, wear long pants tucked into your socks. If you find ticks, remove them right away. Use force and pinch the tick near its mouth parts, pulling the tick out slowly in a continuous motion. Don’t twist it, which may leave mouth parts embedded in the skin. Keep grass short in yards and avoid ungroomed areas. Journalists: Sound bites with Dr. Abinash (AH-bih- nosh) Virk (Verk), and b-roll of ticks in the Mayo Clinic parasitology lab are available in the downloads. 

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I was diagnosed last year, at the age of 38, with shingles. What causes someone who is relatively young to get shingles? Does this mean I am more likely to get it again? Should I get the vaccine at this point or wait until the recommended age of 60? ANSWER: Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox. Once you have had chickenpox, varicella-zoster stays in your body for the rest of your life. When the virus is reactivated, the result is shingles. [Watch this animation: stages of shingles] Shingles typically involves a band-like rash on one side of the chest, abdomen or face. The rash is usually quite painful. Most people recover from shingles over several weeks. A small number have lingering severe pain, called post-herpetic neuralgia, along the nerve that was irritated when the virus came back. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGDsSPUj3vw Mayo Clinic has always been a destination for patients seeking answers. Now, to help usher in a new age of medicine that uses technologies like whole genome sequencing, philanthropists Cecilia and Dan Carmichael are donating $5 million to launch the Individualized Medicine Clinic at Mayo Clinic in Florida. Dan Carmichael says, “It’s really an exciting time. We want to support the Mayo staff we’ve gotten to know and love in transforming care for our family and others.” The Mayo Clinic Individualized Medicine Clinic offers two types of consulting: one for cancer patients for whom standard treatments have failed, and one for "diagnostic odyssey" cases — complex or mysterious disorders that are difficult to diagnose but appear to have a genetic cause.  Click here for news release Journalists: Sound bites with Mr. and Mrs. Carmichael and Alexander Parker, Ph.D., an epidemiologist and Florida-based associate director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine, are available in the downloads.

ROCHESTER, Minnesota - 19 de agosto de 2013.   En las siguientes semanas, los estudiantes volverán a las aulas para empezar el nuevo año escolar. ...

ROCHESTER, Minnesota - 19 de agosto de 2013.   Un nuevo estudio poblacional descubrió que los pacientes con glioblastoma fallecidos en el año 2010, después ...

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