Health & Wellness - February 2013 Archives

On the most recent program, we discussed meditation with the director of research and practice in Complementary and Integrative Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Amit ...

Wound Location First Thing to Consider when Deciding if Medical Attention is Needed February 22, 2013 Dear Mayo Clinic: How can you tell ...

  "INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE (ULCERATIVE COLITIS/CROHN'S DISEASE) IS CAUSED BY PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS." This Saturday Dr. William Faubion and Dr. Joseph Murray will discuss their research regarding gastroenterological issues that afflict ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Thirty years ago, when Mayo Clinic's Mary O'Connor, M.D., was deciding on a specialty after medical school, she heard that orthopedic surgeons ...

It's Heart Disease Awareness Month and we're all being encouraged to “know your numbers.”  By keeping track of our cholesterol counts and blood pressure levels we can more easily control them and keep our arteries healthier. Here's an animation from Mayo Clinic illustrating what can happen if we don’t control those numbers ... a condition called atherosclerosis.  [animation TRT :39] The voiceover script and animation are available in the downloads above Broadcast cg: Courtesy Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a possible treatment window of several years for plaques in the brain that are thought to cause memory loss in ...

JACKSONVILLE, Flórida — A droga bevacizumabe, também conhecida como Avastin, faz tumores encolherem, por curto tempo, em pacientes com um câncer de cérebro agressivo, conhecido ...

JACKSONVILLE, Florida — 20 de febrero de 2013.  La droga bevacizumab, también conocida por la marca comercial Avastin, hace que los tumores se reduzcan en ...

Having a heart attack at age 35 seems unusual, but the woman you’re about to meet suffered what’s called a spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD). Very ...

Smokeless tobacco users who said they didn’t want to quit ... changed their minds or significantly cut back when given nicotine lozenges or tobacco-free snuff. Mayo ...

A bracelet-like device with magnetic beads can control the chronic digestive disorder gastroesophageal reflux disease. The device encircles the valve at the junction of the esophagus and stomach, ...

Sometimes miracles happen when you least expect them. No one believes that more than Fleming Island, Fla., resident Shirley Thompson, whose tale of how she received two new lungs while in a medically induced coma at Mayo Clinic in Florida isn’t exactly the typical scenario. The 48-year-old married mother of two was first diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in March 2012 by her local pulmonologist after undergoing an EKG and experiencing shortness of breath. She was eventually referred to Mayo Clinic for an evaluation and was put on continuous high-flow oxygen during treatment for her lung condition. Ms. Thompson re-entered the hospital in October 2012 for an unrelated hysterectomy surgery and that’s when her condition took a dramatic turn for the worse. Her lung (and related heart) problems worsened after the surgery and she was then put in a medically induced coma once it was determined that she was going to need a double lung transplant and heart surgery in order to survive. That’s when her miracle happened.